Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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YCHOIC_B (Percentages are weighted by WEIGHT; Total Ns reported are unweighted) Please tell me whether you think [this reason why some people favor the idea of allowing churches and other houses of worship to use government money to provide social services] is an important reason to favor this [idea], or not: People who need social services should have a variety of options to pick from (Q264D)   1) Important reason   2) Not an important reason   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Important reason	78.2%	78.2%
Not an important reason	18.5%	96.7%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	3.3%	100%
Total N = 2003

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	TOTAL
Important reason	81.5%	80.1%	81.2%	79.5%	73.7%	73.1%	78.2%
Not an important reason	18.5%	17.5%	17.3%	17.3%	21.0%	20.2%	18.5%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.0%	2.4%	1.6%	3.2%	5.4%	6.7%	3.3%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1971

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	TOTAL
Important reason	82.8%	75.0%	74.5%	82.7%	76.7%	80.2%	78.7%
Not an important reason	12.8%	19.9%	20.7%	17.2%	20.9%	18.6%	18.3%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	4.3%	5.1%	4.8%	0.1%	2.4%	1.2%	3.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1628

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced or separated	Widowed	Never been married	TOTAL
Important reason	79.2%	82.8%	75.2%	73.6%	77.8%	78.3%
Not an important reason	18.0%	14.7%	20.5%	16.7%	19.9%	18.4%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	2.7%	2.5%	4.3%	9.7%	2.3%	3.3%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1990

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Roman Catholic	Other Christian (Mormon, Orthodox, Unitarian, self-identified as Christian)	Other religion	Atheist, agnostic, nothing in particular	TOTAL
Important reason	78.1%	79.3%	82.1%	85.3%	73.0%	78.3%
Not an important reason	18.2%	18.4%	14.0%	11.8%	24.4%	18.5%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	3.7%	2.3%	3.8%	2.9%	2.6%	3.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1980

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	TOTAL
Important reason	78.9%	77.4%	78.8%	76.8%	81.3%	78.4%
Not an important reason	15.6%	18.1%	19.3%	20.6%	17.5%	18.4%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	5.5%	4.5%	1.9%	2.6%	1.2%	3.2%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1986

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Important reason	76.0%	80.3%	78.2%
Not an important reason	20.5%	16.6%	18.5%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	3.5%	3.1%	3.3%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	2003

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	TOTAL
Important reason	76.0%	81.0%	78.0%	77.0%	83.2%	79.0%
Not an important reason	17.8%	16.3%	19.5%	21.0%	16.8%	18.4%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	6.2%	2.7%	2.5%	2.0%	0.0%	2.6%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1893