Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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OBCON_B (Weighted by WEIGHT) How much confidence do you have in Barack Obama to do the right thing when it comes to dealing with health care reform - a great deal of confidence, a fair amount of confidence, not too much confidence, or no confidence at all? (Q220A) [Note: OBCON_B through REPCON_B were read together as a block, but were read in a random order within the block.]   1) A great deal of confidence   2) A fair amount of confidence   3) Not too much confidence   4) No confidence at all   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
A great deal of confidence	2257	25.6%	25.6%
A fair amount of confidence	2618	29.7%	55.3%
Not too much confidence	1810	20.5%	75.8%
No confidence at all	1919	21.7%	97.5%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	225	2.5%	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
A great deal of confidence	31.7% 367	25.3% 387	25.5% 393	21.1% 361	29.3% 388	23.8% 348	13	25.7% 2244
A fair amount of confidence	36.8% 426	38.2% 583	24.6% 379	25.0% 427	28.9% 383	25.5% 373	47	29.5% 2571
Not too much confidence	20.8% 241	19.7% 301	25.0% 385	22.6% 387	17.3% 229	17.6% 258	9	20.6% 1801
No confidence at all	10.6% 123	13.9% 212	23.4% 361	27.1% 463	22.3% 295	29.5% 431	33	21.6% 1885
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.0% 0	2.9% 45	1.4% 22	4.2% 72	2.3% 30	3.6% 53	2	2.5% 222
Missing	1166	1407	1627	1715	1282	1513	0	8710
TOTAL	100.0% 1157	100.0% 1528	100.0% 1540	100.0% 1710	100.0% 1325	100.0% 1463	104	8723

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
A great deal of confidence	29.0% 348	31.1% 299	33.3% 531	18.2% 223	20.5% 197	17.0% 223	435	25.1% 1821
A fair amount of confidence	34.1% 408	30.3% 291	26.7% 426	31.1% 381	31.9% 307	32.0% 418	386	30.8% 2231
Not too much confidence	18.8% 225	18.6% 179	23.6% 376	22.4% 274	22.3% 215	19.2% 251	290	21.0% 1520
No confidence at all	14.4% 173	17.4% 167	14.6% 232	26.1% 320	22.8% 219	29.7% 389	420	20.7% 1500
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	3.7% 44	2.6% 25	1.8% 29	2.2% 27	2.5% 24	2.1% 27	48	2.4% 176
Missing	1615	967	1564	1096	931	1267	0	7440
TOTAL	100.0% 1198	100.0% 961	100.0% 1594	100.0% 1225	100.0% 962	100.0% 1308	1579	7248

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
A great deal of confidence	22.9% 1114	31.0% 173	34.9% 261	33.1% 52	22.9% 141	26.9% 496	21	25.5% 2237
A fair amount of confidence	24.7% 1201	40.7% 227	29.7% 222	40.8% 64	30.5% 188	38.0% 700	15	29.6% 2602
Not too much confidence	22.8% 1110	19.9% 111	15.1% 113	19.7% 31	17.7% 109	18.1% 334	2	20.6% 1808
No confidence at all	27.4% 1333	5.0% 28	16.4% 123	6.4% 10	23.8% 147	14.6% 269	9	21.8% 1910
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	2.1% 101	3.4% 19	3.9% 29	0.0% 0	5.2% 32	2.3% 43	0	2.6% 224
Missing	4605	576	871	223	527	1991	0	8793
TOTAL	100.0% 4859	100.0% 558	100.0% 748	100.0% 157	100.0% 617	100.0% 1842	47	8781

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
A great deal of confidence	23.3% 845	25.0% 496	25.6% 273	26.3% 35	46.2% 162	27.6% 429	17	25.7% 2240
A fair amount of confidence	24.5% 890	29.9% 592	28.0% 299	45.1% 60	33.0% 116	39.2% 610	51	29.5% 2567
Not too much confidence	23.1% 838	21.9% 433	19.0% 203	16.5% 22	7.7% 27	17.1% 266	21	20.5% 1789
No confidence at all	27.2% 986	20.3% 403	26.0% 277	9.8% 13	6.8% 24	12.9% 201	15	21.8% 1904
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	1.9% 70	2.9% 57	1.4% 15	2.3% 3	6.3% 22	3.2% 49	8	2.5% 216
Missing	3473	2018	1359	149	226	1439	0	8664
TOTAL	100.0% 3629	100.0% 1981	100.0% 1067	100.0% 133	100.0% 351	100.0% 1555	112	8716

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
A great deal of confidence	32.9% 387	23.6% 626	24.3% 605	23.1% 329	29.3% 305	6	25.7% 2252
A fair amount of confidence	31.9% 376	28.7% 760	29.4% 731	31.2% 445	27.8% 289	18	29.6% 2601
Not too much confidence	13.1% 154	22.3% 591	21.4% 533	23.1% 330	19.2% 200	3	20.6% 1808
No confidence at all	16.4% 193	21.6% 573	23.1% 574	22.4% 319	23.5% 244	17	21.7% 1903
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	5.8% 68	3.8% 100	1.7% 42	0.2% 3	0.2% 2	9	2.4% 215
Missing	1206	2863	2329	1414	990	0	8802
TOTAL	100.0% 1178	100.0% 2650	100.0% 2485	100.0% 1426	100.0% 1040	53	8779

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
A great deal of confidence	21.4% 917	29.5% 1341	25.6% 2258
A fair amount of confidence	30.2% 1294	29.1% 1324	29.6% 2618
Not too much confidence	20.0% 855	21.0% 955	20.5% 1810
No confidence at all	25.9% 1107	17.9% 812	21.7% 1919
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	2.5% 108	2.6% 117	2.5% 225
Missing	4274	4555	8829
TOTAL	100.0% 4281	100.0% 4549	8830

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
A great deal of confidence	16.5% 109	14.9% 415	26.9% 786	42.9% 587	39.6% 212	148	25.5% 2109
A fair amount of confidence	7.4% 49	21.4% 594	37.6% 1098	37.1% 507	36.4% 195	175	29.5% 2443
Not too much confidence	17.8% 117	26.6% 739	22.0% 642	12.4% 170	11.6% 62	81	20.9% 1730
No confidence at all	56.8% 374	35.6% 991	11.6% 338	6.2% 85	10.1% 54	77	22.3% 1842
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	1.5% 10	1.5% 43	2.1% 60	1.4% 19	2.4% 13	81	1.8% 145
Missing	609	2852	3057	1233	555	0	8306
TOTAL	100.0% 659	100.0% 2782	100.0% 2924	100.0% 1368	100.0% 536	562	8269