National Study of Youth and Religion, Wave 3 (2007-2008)

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RELIGNEG (religneg_w3) Q:26. Generally, how positive or negative do you feel about religion in this country? Do you feel . . .   1) Very positive   2) Somewhat positive   3) Neither   4) Somewhat negative   5) Very negative   777) Don't know   888) Refused   999) Legitimate skip

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very positive	234	9.2%	9.2%	-.11
Somewhat positive	1111	43.9%	53.1%	-.09
Neither	672	26.5%	79.7%	-.08
Somewhat negative	368	14.5%	94.2%	-.07
Very negative	128	5.1%	99.2%	-.06
Don't know	3	.1%	99.4%	9.5
Refused	5	.2%	99.6%	10.87
Legitimate skip	11	.4%	100%	12.25

Variable Comparisons

Age Sex Religion Church attendance

Age (I-AGE)

	17 or 18 years old	19 years old	20 years old	21 years old	22 years old	23 or 24 years old	TOTAL
Very positive	8.1% 40	10.4% 52	10.1% 55	8.9% 46	6.7% 28	20.3% 13	9.2% 234
Somewhat positive	46.7% 230	44.7% 224	41.1% 223	44.1% 228	44.2% 184	34.4% 22	43.9% 1111
Neither	26.0% 128	28.1% 141	27.7% 150	26.5% 137	24.5% 102	21.9% 14	26.5% 672
Somewhat negative	14.0% 69	11.0% 55	14.6% 79	15.3% 79	18.5% 77	14.1% 9	14.5% 368
Very negative	5.1% 25	5.2% 26	5.4% 29	4.6% 24	4.3% 18	9.4% 6	5.1% 128
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.1% 3
Refused	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 2	0.0% 0	0.7% 3	0.0% 0	0.2% 5
Legitimate skip	0.0% 0	0.6% 3	0.6% 3	0.4% 2	0.7% 3	0.0% 0	0.4% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 492	100.0% 501	100.0% 542	100.0% 517	100.0% 416	100.0% 64	2532

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very positive	9.0% 111	9.5% 123	9.2% 234
Somewhat positive	40.4% 498	47.2% 613	43.9% 1111
Neither	26.8% 330	26.3% 342	26.5% 672
Somewhat negative	16.2% 200	12.9% 168	14.5% 368
Very negative	6.8% 84	3.4% 44	5.1% 128
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.2% 2	0.1% 3
Refused	0.2% 2	0.2% 3	0.2% 5
Legitimate skip	0.5% 6	0.4% 5	0.4% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 1232	100.0% 1300	2532

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Not religious	Other religion	TOTAL
Very positive	13.3% 95	7.7% 20	16.9% 32	8.1% 36	2.1% 13	12.5% 38	9.2% 234
Somewhat positive	53.6% 383	50.6% 131	56.1% 106	50.6% 224	23.2% 144	40.3% 123	43.9% 1111
Neither	20.7% 148	24.7% 64	16.9% 32	25.7% 114	38.4% 239	24.6% 75	26.5% 672
Somewhat negative	9.7% 69	13.1% 34	6.9% 13	14.0% 62	22.2% 138	17.0% 52	14.5% 368
Very negative	1.7% 12	3.5% 9	1.6% 3	0.7% 3	13.5% 84	5.6% 17	5.1% 128
Don't know	0.1% 1	0.4% 1	0.5% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 3
Refused	0.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	0.5% 2	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0.2% 5
Legitimate skip	0.7% 5	0.0% 0	0.5% 1	0.5% 2	0.5% 3	0.0% 0	0.4% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 714	100.0% 259	100.0% 189	100.0% 443	100.0% 622	100.0% 305	2532

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Few times a year	Many times a year	Once a month	2-3 times a month	Once a week or more	TOTAL
Very positive	3.8% 35	7.4% 37	12.6% 21	7.9% 15	9.2% 24	20.8% 102	9.2% 234
Somewhat positive	28.8% 266	50.5% 251	50.9% 85	52.6% 100	62.5% 163	49.8% 244	43.8% 1109
Neither	35.4% 327	26.0% 129	23.4% 39	26.8% 51	16.9% 44	16.7% 82	26.6% 672
Somewhat negative	21.3% 197	13.5% 67	7.8% 13	8.9% 17	10.7% 28	9.4% 46	14.5% 368
Very negative	10.1% 93	1.6% 8	3.0% 5	3.7% 7	0.8% 2	2.7% 13	5.1% 128
Don't know	0.0% 0	0.4% 2	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.1% 3
Refused	0.3% 3	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.2% 5
Legitimate skip	0.4% 4	0.6% 3	1.8% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.2% 1	0.4% 11
TOTAL	100.0% 925	100.0% 497	100.0% 167	100.0% 190	100.0% 261	100.0% 490	2530