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Catholic Pluralism Project, 1995

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POVUPBAD (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. -- Economic decisions that increase poverty are immoral.

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

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Agree strongly	1321	50%	50%
Agree somewhat	684	25.9%	75.9%
Disagree somewhat	339	12.8%	88.7%
Disagree strongly	139	5.3%	94%
Not sure	158	6%	100%

Variable Comparisons

Education (I-EDUCATN)

	Lt HS grad	HS grad	SmCol/Tech	Coll. grad	Post-grad	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	41.0% 73	50.3% 373	52.6% 324	48.0% 207	53.8% 99	245	50.0% 1076
Agree somewhat	24.2% 43	26.7% 198	24.2% 149	26.0% 112	27.2% 50	133	25.7% 552
Disagree somewhat	15.2% 27	9.4% 70	11.9% 73	16.7% 72	9.8% 18	78	12.1% 260
Disagree strongly	7.9% 14	6.9% 51	5.8% 36	3.0% 13	4.3% 8	17	5.7% 122
Not sure	11.8% 21	6.6% 49	5.5% 34	6.3% 27	4.9% 9	17	6.5% 140
TOTAL	100.0% 178	100.0% 741	100.0% 616	100.0% 431	100.0% 184	490	2150

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Widowed	Div./Sep.	Single	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	48.0% 708	58.3% 109	57.1% 188	48.1% 309	7	49.9% 1314
Agree somewhat	27.3% 403	22.5% 42	17.0% 56	28.7% 184	0	26.0% 685
Disagree somewhat	12.2% 180	5.9% 11	13.7% 45	16.0% 103	0	12.9% 339
Disagree strongly	5.0% 74	3.2% 6	10.6% 35	3.4% 22	2	5.2% 137
Not sure	7.5% 111	10.2% 19	1.5% 5	3.7% 24	0	6.0% 159
TOTAL	100.0% 1476	100.0% 187	100.0% 329	100.0% 642	9	2634

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Agree strongly	53.7% 560	47.6% 761	50.0% 1321
Agree somewhat	24.2% 252	27.1% 433	25.9% 685
Disagree somewhat	13.2% 138	12.6% 201	12.8% 339
Disagree strongly	4.2% 44	5.9% 95	5.3% 139
Not sure	4.7% 49	6.8% 109	6.0% 158
TOTAL	100.0% 1043	100.0% 1599	2642

Year of birth (I-YRBORN)

	In or before 1940	1941-1960	After 1960	TOTAL
Agree strongly	57.5% 384	49.8% 507	45.1% 430	50.0% 1321
Agree somewhat	17.4% 116	26.2% 267	31.6% 301	25.9% 684
Disagree somewhat	6.1% 41	14.0% 143	16.2% 154	12.8% 338
Disagree strongly	7.8% 52	4.5% 46	4.3% 41	5.3% 139
Not sure	11.2% 75	5.5% 56	2.8% 27	6.0% 158
TOTAL	100.0% 668	100.0% 1019	100.0% 953	2640

Region (I-REGION)

	Northeast	Midwest	South	West	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	50.6% 553	53.2% 337	45.6% 181	60.6% 137	111	51.4% 1208
Agree somewhat	26.3% 288	21.9% 139	28.0% 111	23.5% 53	94	25.1% 591
Disagree somewhat	13.9% 152	15.6% 99	14.1% 56	1.3% 3	28	13.2% 310
Disagree strongly	4.5% 49	3.6% 23	7.8% 31	6.6% 15	22	5.0% 118
Not sure	4.7% 51	5.7% 36	4.5% 18	8.0% 18	35	5.2% 123
TOTAL	100.0% 1093	100.0% 634	100.0% 397	100.0% 226	290	2350

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Latino	African-Am	Other	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	50.6% 1039	42.0% 154	50.0% 34	55.7% 59	35	49.6% 1286
Agree somewhat	26.5% 544	28.9% 106	16.2% 11	20.8% 22	0	26.3% 683
Disagree somewhat	13.4% 276	14.2% 52	11.8% 8	2.8% 3	0	13.1% 339
Disagree strongly	3.8% 78	10.4% 38	19.1% 13	5.7% 6	3	5.2% 135
Not sure	5.7% 116	4.6% 17	2.9% 2	15.1% 16	6	5.8% 151
TOTAL	100.0% 2053	100.0% 367	100.0% 68	100.0% 106	44	2594

Convert? (I-CONVERT)

	Raisd Cath	Cnvrt Cath	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	49.3% 1188	56.4% 128	6	49.9% 1316
Agree somewhat	26.4% 637	20.7% 47	0	25.9% 684
Disagree somewhat	13.2% 319	8.8% 20	0	12.9% 339
Disagree strongly	5.5% 132	3.1% 7	0	5.3% 139
Not sure	5.5% 133	11.0% 25	0	6.0% 158
TOTAL	100.0% 2409	100.0% 227	6	2636

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Under 15K	15K-29,999	30K-49,999	50K-79,999	80K & over	Missing	TOTAL
Agree strongly	61.6% 138	54.5% 276	45.9% 324	50.4% 267	51.3% 192	124	51.2% 1197
Agree somewhat	11.2% 25	26.3% 133	35.7% 252	20.6% 109	24.1% 90	76	26.0% 609
Disagree somewhat	8.5% 19	9.5% 48	8.8% 62	20.8% 110	18.2% 68	33	13.1% 307
Disagree strongly	12.9% 29	4.3% 22	4.7% 33	3.6% 19	2.9% 11	26	4.9% 114
Not sure	5.8% 13	5.3% 27	5.0% 35	4.7% 25	3.5% 13	45	4.8% 113
TOTAL	100.0% 224	100.0% 506	100.0% 706	100.0% 530	100.0% 374	304	2340