Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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FROBAM_B (Weighted by WEIGHT) Do you feel that the Obama administration is generally friendly toward religion, neutral toward religion, or unfriendly toward religion? (Q250F)   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	3271	37.1%	37.1%
Neutral toward religion	3137	35.5%	72.6%
Unfriendly toward religion	1511	17.1%	89.7%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	908	10.3%	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	43.0% 498	39.1% 597	38.5% 593	32.6% 557	40.2% 532	32.1% 470	24	37.2% 3247
Neutral toward religion	42.9% 497	37.0% 566	37.7% 580	35.7% 610	33.9% 449	27.4% 401	35	35.6% 3103
Unfriendly toward religion	8.9% 103	15.4% 236	16.2% 250	19.8% 338	17.1% 226	22.7% 332	25	17.0% 1485
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	5.2% 60	8.4% 129	7.6% 117	12.0% 205	8.9% 118	17.7% 259	20	10.2% 888
Missing	1166	1407	1627	1715	1282	1513	0	8710
TOTAL	100.0% 1158	100.0% 1528	100.0% 1540	100.0% 1710	100.0% 1325	100.0% 1462	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
Friendly toward religion	36.0% 432	47.1% 453	37.1% 591	33.0% 404	37.5% 361	36.2% 473	557	37.4% 2714
Neutral toward religion	36.5% 438	30.7% 295	38.8% 619	42.0% 515	40.6% 391	34.7% 454	425	37.4% 2712
Unfriendly toward religion	16.6% 199	13.3% 128	14.5% 231	18.4% 225	15.5% 149	23.1% 302	278	17.0% 1234
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	10.8% 130	8.9% 86	9.6% 153	6.7% 82	6.3% 61	6.0% 79	319	8.2% 591
Missing	1615	967	1564	1096	931	1267	0	7440
TOTAL	100.0% 1199	100.0% 962	100.0% 1594	100.0% 1226	100.0% 962	100.0% 1308	1579	7251

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Friendly toward religion	33.8% 1641	40.7% 227	41.2% 308	50.3% 79	31.0% 191	44.3% 816	9	37.1% 3262
Neutral toward religion	36.5% 1772	36.6% 204	28.8% 215	38.2% 60	27.1% 167	38.1% 702	18	35.5% 3120
Unfriendly toward religion	20.0% 970	14.3% 80	15.3% 114	4.5% 7	16.7% 103	12.2% 225	12	17.1% 1499
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	9.8% 477	8.4% 47	14.7% 110	7.0% 11	25.2% 155	5.4% 100	8	10.2% 900
Missing	4605	576	871	223	527	1991	0	8793
TOTAL	100.0% 4860	100.0% 558	100.0% 747	100.0% 157	100.0% 616	100.0% 1843	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
Friendly toward religion	33.8% 1226	38.3% 759	33.2% 355	44.4% 59	46.1% 161	43.6% 678	33	37.2% 3238
Neutral toward religion	33.6% 1218	39.5% 783	35.7% 381	18.8% 25	43.3% 151	36.2% 563	16	35.8% 3121
Unfriendly toward religion	22.0% 800	14.9% 295	23.7% 253	19.5% 26	2.0% 7	6.0% 93	37	16.9% 1474
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	10.6% 386	7.2% 143	7.4% 79	17.3% 23	8.6% 30	14.2% 221	26	10.1% 882
Missing	3473	2018	1359	149	226	1439	0	8664
TOTAL	100.0% 3630	100.0% 1980	100.0% 1068	100.0% 133	100.0% 349	100.0% 1555	112	8715

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	43.5% 512	36.5% 968	33.1% 821	37.9% 540	40.0% 416	14	37.1% 3257
Neutral toward religion	24.5% 288	33.1% 876	42.1% 1046	35.1% 501	40.2% 418	7	35.7% 3129
Unfriendly toward religion	15.6% 184	18.4% 488	16.6% 413	17.7% 253	15.7% 163	10	17.1% 1501
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	16.4% 193	12.0% 317	8.2% 204	9.3% 132	4.0% 42	20	10.1% 888
Missing	1206	2863	2329	1414	990	0	8802
TOTAL	100.0% 1177	100.0% 2649	100.0% 2484	100.0% 1426	100.0% 1039	51	8775

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Friendly toward religion	36.9% 1578	37.2% 1694	37.1% 3272
Neutral toward religion	35.3% 1512	35.7% 1625	35.5% 3137
Unfriendly toward religion	19.3% 826	15.1% 686	17.1% 1512
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	8.5% 365	12.0% 544	10.3% 909
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
Friendly toward religion	14.7% 97	25.5% 710	42.7% 1250	56.4% 771	49.3% 264	180	37.4% 3092
Neutral toward religion	31.7% 209	37.5% 1044	40.7% 1190	30.9% 423	34.2% 183	88	36.9% 3049
Unfriendly toward religion	47.0% 310	27.3% 759	8.4% 247	6.8% 93	7.5% 40	62	17.5% 1449
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	6.5% 43	9.6% 268	8.1% 237	5.9% 81	9.0% 48	231	8.2% 677
Missing	609	2852	3057	1233	555	0	8306
TOTAL	100.0% 659	100.0% 2781	100.0% 2924	100.0% 1368	100.0% 535	561	8267