Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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BPSYCH_B (Weighted by WEIGHT) Have you ever consulted a fortune-teller or psychic? (Q292B)   1) Yes   2) No   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Yes	1320	15%	15%
No	7456	84.4%	99.4%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	53	.6%	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
Yes	10.1% 117	14.5% 222	20.1% 310	15.0% 257	16.3% 216	12.4% 181	18	14.9% 1303
No	89.4% 1035	85.5% 1306	79.6% 1226	84.7% 1449	83.4% 1106	85.9% 1257	78	84.5% 7379
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.5% 6	0.0% 0	0.3% 5	0.3% 5	0.3% 4	1.8% 26	8	0.5% 46
Missing	1166	1407	1627	1715	1282	1513	0	8710
TOTAL	100.0% 1158	100.0% 1528	100.0% 1541	100.0% 1711	100.0% 1326	100.0% 1464	104	8728

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
Yes	16.3% 196	15.8% 152	16.3% 260	16.2% 198	12.6% 121	17.8% 233	160	16.0% 1160
No	83.2% 998	83.4% 802	83.7% 1334	83.8% 1028	87.4% 840	81.8% 1070	1384	83.7% 6072
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.5% 6	0.8% 8	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 5	35	0.3% 19
Missing	1615	967	1564	1096	931	1267	0	7440
TOTAL	100.0% 1200	100.0% 962	100.0% 1594	100.0% 1226	100.0% 961	100.0% 1308	1579	7251

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Yes	13.1% 639	15.6% 87	27.0% 202	15.4% 24	15.9% 98	14.6% 269	0	15.0% 1319
No	86.2% 4189	84.4% 472	72.8% 544	82.7% 129	82.8% 511	85.4% 1573	38	84.5% 7418
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.7% 32	0.0% 0	0.1% 1	1.9% 3	1.3% 8	0.0% 0	9	0.5% 44
Missing	4605	576	871	223	527	1991	0	8793
TOTAL	100.0% 4860	100.0% 559	100.0% 747	100.0% 156	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
Yes	13.3% 484	17.2% 340	11.7% 125	23.3% 31	28.6% 100	15.2% 236	4	15.1% 1316
No	85.7% 3110	82.7% 1638	87.8% 938	76.7% 102	71.4% 250	84.4% 1313	105	84.3% 7351
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	1.0% 36	0.2% 3	0.5% 5	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 6	4	0.6% 50
Missing	3473	2018	1359	149	226	1439	0	8664
TOTAL	100.0% 3630	100.0% 1981	100.0% 1068	100.0% 133	100.0% 350	100.0% 1555	113	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
Yes	12.9% 152	14.8% 391	14.3% 356	16.5% 235	17.4% 181	6	15.0% 1315
No	85.2% 1003	84.9% 2251	85.4% 2122	82.9% 1182	82.5% 858	40	84.5% 7416
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	1.9% 22	0.3% 8	0.3% 7	0.6% 8	0.1% 1	7	0.5% 46
Missing	1206	2863	2329	1414	990	0	8802
TOTAL	100.0% 1177	100.0% 2650	100.0% 2485	100.0% 1425	100.0% 1040	53	8777

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Yes	9.7% 416	19.9% 904	14.9% 1320
No	89.6% 3834	79.6% 3622	84.4% 7456
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.7% 31	0.5% 23	0.6% 54
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
Yes	9.7% 64	10.6% 295	17.7% 519	17.0% 232	29.7% 159	50	15.3% 1269
No	90.3% 594	89.1% 2479	81.8% 2392	82.6% 1130	70.3% 376	485	84.3% 6971
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.0% 0	0.3% 8	0.5% 14	0.4% 6	0.0% 0	26	0.3% 28
Missing	609	2852	3057	1233	555	0	8306
TOTAL	100.0% 658	100.0% 2782	100.0% 2925	100.0% 1368	100.0% 535	561	8268