Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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FRNEWS_B (Weighted by WEIGHT) Do you feel that news reporters and the news media are generally friendly toward religion, neutral toward religion, or unfriendly toward religion? (Q250D)   1) Friendly toward religion   2) Neutral toward religion   3) Unfriendly toward religion   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Friendly toward religion	1234	14%	14%
Neutral toward religion	3736	42.3%	56.3%
Unfriendly toward religion	3092	35%	91.3%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	766	8.7%	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
Friendly toward religion	18.6% 215	11.5% 176	14.6% 225	12.1% 207	12.8% 170	15.0% 219	21	13.9% 1212
Neutral toward religion	50.5% 585	48.5% 740	43.3% 668	40.1% 685	37.6% 498	35.9% 525	35	42.4% 3701
Unfriendly toward religion	28.8% 333	33.5% 512	37.1% 572	36.3% 621	40.4% 535	32.8% 480	40	35.0% 3053
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	2.2% 25	6.5% 99	4.9% 76	11.5% 197	9.2% 122	16.3% 239	8	8.7% 758
Missing	1166	1407	1627	1715	1282	1513	0	8710
TOTAL	100.0% 1158	100.0% 1527	100.0% 1541	100.0% 1710	100.0% 1325	100.0% 1463	104	8724

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
Friendly toward religion	19.3% 231	17.3% 166	13.6% 216	10.6% 130	10.5% 101	13.2% 172	217	14.0% 1016
Neutral toward religion	36.5% 437	40.0% 385	53.3% 849	41.2% 505	47.3% 455	42.6% 557	549	44.0% 3188
Unfriendly toward religion	35.4% 424	33.3% 320	25.2% 402	42.3% 518	38.4% 369	38.6% 504	556	35.0% 2537
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	8.8% 106	9.5% 91	8.0% 127	6.0% 73	3.8% 37	5.7% 74	257	7.0% 508
Missing	1615	967	1564	1096	931	1267	0	7440
TOTAL	100.0% 1198	100.0% 962	100.0% 1594	100.0% 1226	100.0% 962	100.0% 1307	1579	7249

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Friendly toward religion	11.6% 564	18.3% 102	15.9% 119	15.9% 25	18.3% 113	16.7% 307	4	14.0% 1230
Neutral toward religion	41.1% 1999	51.4% 287	37.2% 278	49.0% 77	37.9% 234	46.0% 848	13	42.4% 3723
Unfriendly toward religion	38.4% 1867	23.8% 133	35.2% 263	25.5% 40	27.8% 172	32.3% 595	22	35.0% 3070
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	8.8% 429	6.5% 36	11.6% 87	9.6% 15	16.0% 99	5.0% 92	7	8.6% 758
Missing	4605	576	871	223	527	1991	0	8793
TOTAL	100.0% 4859	100.0% 558	100.0% 747	100.0% 157	100.0% 618	100.0% 1842	46	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
Friendly toward religion	11.2% 405	18.0% 357	7.9% 84	10.5% 14	17.4% 61	19.2% 299	14	14.0% 1220
Neutral toward religion	38.5% 1399	40.3% 799	46.9% 500	48.9% 65	41.7% 146	50.4% 783	45	42.4% 3692
Unfriendly toward religion	40.9% 1485	35.2% 697	39.5% 421	26.3% 35	24.0% 84	21.7% 338	32	35.1% 3060
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	9.4% 341	6.5% 128	5.8% 62	14.3% 19	16.9% 59	8.7% 135	21	8.5% 744
Missing	3473	2018	1359	149	226	1439	0	8664
TOTAL	100.0% 3630	100.0% 1981	100.0% 1067	100.0% 133	100.0% 350	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
Friendly toward religion	15.7% 185	15.4% 408	12.5% 311	13.5% 192	12.6% 131	7	14.0% 1227
Neutral toward religion	39.6% 466	40.9% 1084	44.5% 1106	41.6% 593	46.7% 486	2	42.5% 3735
Unfriendly toward religion	29.9% 352	33.4% 885	36.3% 903	39.8% 568	35.2% 366	18	35.0% 3074
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	14.8% 174	10.3% 272	6.7% 166	5.1% 73	5.5% 57	24	8.5% 742
Missing	1206	2863	2329	1414	990	0	8802
TOTAL	100.0% 1177	100.0% 2649	100.0% 2486	100.0% 1426	100.0% 1040	51	8778

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Friendly toward religion	14.0% 600	13.9% 634	14.0% 1234
Neutral toward religion	39.9% 1709	44.6% 2027	42.3% 3736
Unfriendly toward religion	37.8% 1618	32.4% 1474	35.0% 3092
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	8.2% 352	9.1% 414	8.7% 766
Missing	4274	4555	8829
TOTAL	100.0% 4279	100.0% 4549	8828

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Friendly toward religion	10.9% 72	8.8% 246	15.8% 463	18.9% 258	23.9% 128	67	14.1% 1167
Neutral toward religion	24.9% 164	37.1% 1031	45.7% 1338	55.4% 757	40.7% 218	228	42.4% 3508
Unfriendly toward religion	58.7% 387	46.8% 1302	31.5% 921	19.8% 271	23.4% 125	86	36.4% 3006
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	5.5% 36	7.3% 202	6.9% 203	5.9% 81	12.0% 64	181	7.1% 586
Missing	609	2852	3057	1233	555	0	8306
TOTAL	100.0% 659	100.0% 2781	100.0% 2925	100.0% 1367	100.0% 535	562	8267