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Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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OBEYCHUR (Weighted by WEIGHT)

Now I'm going to read some statements that some people have made about religion and the Catholic Church. Please tell me to what extent you agree or disagree with the statement. -- It's important to obey Church teachings even if I don't understand them.

	1) Agree strongly
	2) Agree somewhat
	3) Disagree somewhat
	4) Disagree strongly
	5) Not sure

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	515	19.5%	19.5%
Agree somewhat	668	25.3%	44.8%
Disagree somewhat	678	25.7%	70.5%
Disagree strongly	701	26.5%	97%
Not sure	79	3%	100%

Variable Comparisons

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	32.8% 58	20.8% 154	19.0% 117	10.9% 47	18.5% 34	104	19.1% 410
Agree somewhat	32.2% 57	22.9% 170	26.4% 163	25.1% 108	15.8% 29	141	24.5% 527
Disagree somewhat	18.1% 32	27.4% 203	20.1% 124	35.6% 153	35.3% 65	101	26.8% 577
Disagree strongly	11.9% 21	23.6% 175	31.9% 197	26.5% 114	29.9% 55	139	26.2% 562
Not sure	5.1% 9	5.3% 39	2.6% 16	1.9% 8	0.5% 1	6	3.4% 73
TOTAL	100.0% 177	100.0% 741	100.0% 617	100.0% 430	100.0% 184	491	2149

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	19.7% 291	34.9% 65	13.0% 43	17.0% 109	7	19.3% 508
Agree somewhat	24.8% 366	23.1% 43	24.8% 82	27.3% 175	2	25.3% 666
Disagree somewhat	26.2% 386	21.0% 39	23.3% 77	27.4% 176	0	25.8% 678
Disagree strongly	26.5% 390	16.7% 31	31.8% 105	27.3% 175	0	26.6% 701
Not sure	2.8% 41	4.3% 8	7.0% 23	1.1% 7	0	3.0% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 1474	100.0% 186	100.0% 330	100.0% 642	9	2632

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	19.8% 206	19.3% 309	19.5% 515
Agree somewhat	26.5% 276	24.5% 391	25.3% 667
Disagree somewhat	21.8% 227	28.2% 451	25.7% 678
Disagree strongly	28.5% 297	25.3% 405	26.6% 702
Not sure	3.5% 36	2.7% 43	3.0% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 1042	100.0% 1599	2641

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	31.4% 210	17.2% 175	13.6% 130	19.5% 515
Agree somewhat	25.9% 173	19.7% 201	30.8% 294	25.3% 668
Disagree somewhat	17.0% 114	28.8% 294	28.3% 270	25.7% 678
Disagree strongly	20.2% 135	30.5% 311	26.9% 256	26.6% 702
Not sure	5.5% 37	3.8% 39	0.3% 3	3.0% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 669	100.0% 1020	100.0% 953	2642

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	17.4% 190	17.7% 112	27.3% 108	15.5% 35	70	18.9% 445
Agree somewhat	25.1% 275	25.9% 164	24.2% 96	32.7% 74	58	25.9% 609
Disagree somewhat	30.1% 329	19.6% 124	29.0% 115	12.4% 28	83	25.4% 596
Disagree strongly	25.4% 278	33.4% 212	15.9% 63	36.3% 82	66	27.0% 635
Not sure	2.0% 22	3.5% 22	3.5% 14	3.1% 7	13	2.8% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 1094	100.0% 634	100.0% 396	100.0% 226	290	2350

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	18.1% 372	27.7% 102	19.1% 13	18.7% 20	8	19.5% 507
Agree somewhat	26.0% 535	23.6% 87	26.5% 18	11.2% 12	15	25.1% 652
Disagree somewhat	26.8% 550	25.5% 94	8.8% 6	20.6% 22	6	25.9% 672
Disagree strongly	26.0% 534	19.6% 72	41.2% 28	49.5% 53	15	26.5% 687
Not sure	3.1% 63	3.5% 13	4.4% 3	0.0% 0	0	3.0% 79
TOTAL	100.0% 2054	100.0% 368	100.0% 68	100.0% 107	44	2597

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	18.6% 448	29.1% 66	1	19.5% 514
Agree somewhat	25.3% 610	25.6% 58	0	25.4% 668
Disagree somewhat	26.7% 644	15.0% 34	0	25.7% 678
Disagree strongly	26.7% 643	23.8% 54	4	26.5% 697
Not sure	2.6% 63	6.6% 15	0	3.0% 78
TOTAL	100.0% 2408	100.0% 227	5	2635

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	34.5% 77	21.2% 107	17.8% 126	16.6% 88	6.4% 24	92	18.0% 422
Agree somewhat	18.4% 41	25.6% 129	26.9% 190	23.2% 123	24.8% 93	92	24.6% 576
Disagree somewhat	19.3% 43	27.0% 136	31.0% 219	23.2% 123	30.4% 114	44	27.2% 635
Disagree strongly	23.8% 53	24.8% 125	21.5% 152	34.2% 181	37.3% 140	50	27.8% 651
Not sure	4.0% 9	1.4% 7	2.7% 19	2.8% 15	1.1% 4	25	2.3% 54
TOTAL	100.0% 223	100.0% 504	100.0% 706	100.0% 530	100.0% 375	303	2338