Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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OBAMAP_B (Weighted by WEIGHT) Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President? (If respondent said that it depends, question was asked again and prefaced with the word "Overall") (Q201)   1) Approve   2) Disapprove   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Approve	4571	51.8%	51.8%
Disapprove	3225	36.5%	88.3%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	1032	11.7%	100%
Missing	8829	%	%

Variable Comparisons

Age Household income Marital status Religion Education Sex Political ideology

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 or older	Missing	TOTAL
Approve	62.4% 723	57.4% 877	47.7% 735	48.2% 824	52.5% 696	45.4% 665	52	51.8% 4520
Disapprove	25.5% 295	28.8% 440	40.7% 627	41.2% 705	35.9% 476	43.9% 643	40	36.5% 3186
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	12.1% 140	13.8% 211	11.6% 178	10.6% 182	11.6% 154	10.7% 156	11	11.7% 1021
Missing	1166	1407	1627	1715	1282	1513	0	8710
TOTAL	100.0% 1158	100.0% 1528	100.0% 1540	100.0% 1711	100.0% 1326	100.0% 1464	103	8727

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Less than $20,000	$20,000 to under $30,000	$30,000 to under $50,000	$50,000 to under $75,000	$75,000 to under $100,000	$100,000 or more	Missing	TOTAL
Approve	59.5% 713	52.3% 503	55.5% 884	44.8% 549	51.7% 497	49.9% 653	772	52.4% 3799
Disapprove	25.3% 303	30.7% 295	32.4% 517	46.4% 569	37.6% 361	44.0% 576	603	36.2% 2621
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	15.2% 182	17.0% 163	12.1% 193	8.8% 108	10.7% 103	6.0% 79	203	11.4% 828
Missing	1615	967	1564	1096	931	1267	0	7440
TOTAL	100.0% 1198	100.0% 961	100.0% 1594	100.0% 1226	100.0% 961	100.0% 1308	1578	7248

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Approve	46.2% 2243	62.3% 348	63.2% 473	71.3% 112	48.6% 300	57.5% 1059	36	51.6% 4535
Disapprove	43.5% 2113	22.4% 125	24.7% 185	20.4% 32	39.5% 244	28.0% 516	11	36.6% 3215
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	10.4% 504	15.4% 86	12.0% 90	8.3% 13	11.8% 73	14.5% 268	0	11.8% 1034
Missing	4605	576	871	223	527	1991	0	8793
TOTAL	100.0% 4860	100.0% 559	100.0% 748	100.0% 157	100.0% 617	100.0% 1843	47	8784

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Roman Catholic	Other Christian (Mormon, Orthodox, Unitarian, self-identified as Christian)	Jewish	Other religion	Atheist, agnostic, nothing in particular	Missing	TOTAL
Approve	45.2% 1641	53.6% 1063	47.1% 503	75.9% 101	79.7% 279	60.7% 943	41	52.0% 4530
Disapprove	43.8% 1589	37.2% 738	39.6% 423	18.8% 25	10.3% 36	24.6% 383	30	36.6% 3194
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	11.0% 400	9.1% 181	13.3% 142	5.3% 7	10.0% 35	14.7% 228	41	11.4% 993
Missing	3473	2018	1359	149	226	1439	0	8664
TOTAL	100.0% 3630	100.0% 1982	100.0% 1068	100.0% 133	100.0% 350	100.0% 1554	112	8717

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than a high school diploma	High school graduate	Some college, no four-year degree	Four-year college degree	Post-graduate training or professional schooling after college	Missing	TOTAL
Approve	58.4% 688	46.2% 1223	51.4% 1277	52.0% 741	59.4% 617	25	51.8% 4546
Disapprove	24.6% 290	38.2% 1011	37.8% 940	40.8% 582	37.2% 387	14	36.6% 3210
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	17.0% 200	15.7% 416	10.7% 267	7.2% 102	3.4% 35	12	11.6% 1020
Missing	1206	2863	2329	1414	990	0	8802
TOTAL	100.0% 1178	100.0% 2650	100.0% 2484	100.0% 1425	100.0% 1039	51	8776

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Approve	48.9% 2091	54.5% 2480	51.8% 4571
Disapprove	39.7% 1700	33.5% 1525	36.5% 3225
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	11.4% 489	12.0% 544	11.7% 1033
Missing	4274	4555	8829
TOTAL	100.0% 4280	100.0% 4549	8829

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Approve	22.5% 148	30.9% 859	61.8% 1806	76.7% 1048	83.2% 446	265	52.1% 4307
Disapprove	73.7% 486	58.7% 1633	26.0% 761	12.6% 172	12.5% 67	107	37.7% 3119
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	3.8% 25	10.4% 290	12.2% 357	10.8% 147	4.3% 23	190	10.2% 842
Missing	609	2852	3057	1233	555	0	8306
TOTAL	100.0% 659	100.0% 2782	100.0% 2924	100.0% 1367	100.0% 536	562	8268