Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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CHR (Weighted by WEIGHT) If RELIG = 11-12 or 99: Do you think of yourself as a Christian or not? [Note: If respondent named a non-Christian religion in RELIG, CHR was not read and respondent was assigned a value of 2 on CHR.]   1) Yes   2) No   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Yes	1495	54.7%	54.7%
No	1018	37.2%	91.9%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	221	8.1%	100%
Missing	14923	%	%

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	44.2% 192	46.6% 300	54.2% 274	63.1% 284	62.6% 246	63.0% 155	44	54.3% 1451
No	53.9% 234	46.3% 298	33.6% 170	28.0% 126	28.5% 112	28.0% 69	10	37.7% 1009
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	1.8% 8	7.1% 46	12.3% 62	8.9% 40	8.9% 35	8.9% 22	7	8.0% 213
Missing	1890	2291	2661	2975	2213	2731	0	14761
TOTAL	100.0% 434	100.0% 644	100.0% 506	100.0% 450	100.0% 393	100.0% 246	61	2673

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	64.2% 361	54.8% 165	51.5% 250	38.9% 124	57.3% 129	55.3% 202	264	54.5% 1231
No	30.2% 170	40.9% 123	37.5% 182	53.6% 171	41.3% 93	38.4% 140	140	38.9% 879
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	5.5% 31	4.3% 13	10.9% 53	7.5% 24	1.3% 3	6.3% 23	74	6.5% 147
Missing	2253	1628	2673	2002	1668	2209	0	12433
TOTAL	100.0% 562	100.0% 301	100.0% 485	100.0% 319	100.0% 225	100.0% 365	478	2257

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Yes	58.1% 724	48.4% 118	53.8% 157	61.8% 34	78.0% 85	47.7% 367	10	54.7% 1485
No	32.2% 401	45.5% 111	28.8% 84	32.7% 18	20.2% 22	49.2% 378	5	37.3% 1014
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	9.7% 121	6.1% 15	17.5% 51	5.5% 3	1.8% 2	3.1% 24	5	8.0% 216
Missing	8219	890	1327	324	1036	3065	0	14861
TOTAL	100.0% 1246	100.0% 244	100.0% 292	100.0% 55	100.0% 109	100.0% 769	20	2715

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	100.0% 107	0.0% 0	76.5% 13	0.0% 0	29.7% 80	55.0% 1136	159	54.3% 1336
No	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	23.5% 4	0.0% 0	53.9% 145	39.8% 822	47	39.5% 971
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	16.4% 44	5.2% 108	69	6.2% 152
Missing	6996	3999	2411	282	307	928	0	14923
TOTAL	100.0% 107	100.0% 0	100.0% 17	100.0% 0	100.0% 269	100.0% 2066	275	2459

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	50.3% 175	61.5% 531	50.7% 388	48.1% 185	56.4% 198	18	54.4% 1477
No	45.7% 159	34.3% 296	38.0% 291	42.1% 162	30.2% 106	4	37.4% 1014
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	4.0% 14	4.3% 37	11.2% 86	9.9% 38	13.4% 47	0	8.2% 222
Missing	2036	4649	4050	2454	1679	0	14868
TOTAL	100.0% 348	100.0% 864	100.0% 765	100.0% 385	100.0% 351	22	2713

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Yes	48.7% 685	61.0% 810	54.7% 1495
No	42.2% 594	32.0% 424	37.2% 1018
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	9.1% 128	7.0% 93	8.1% 221
Missing	7147	7776	14923
TOTAL	100.0% 1407	100.0% 1327	2734

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Yes	66.1% 72	65.5% 365	60.2% 615	37.4% 187	49.5% 138	119	55.8% 1377
No	29.4% 32	31.2% 174	31.4% 321	54.0% 270	46.2% 129	91	37.5% 926
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	4.6% 5	3.2% 18	8.4% 86	8.6% 43	4.3% 12	58	6.6% 164
Missing	1159	5077	4959	2100	811	0	14106
TOTAL	100.0% 109	100.0% 557	100.0% 1022	100.0% 500	100.0% 279	268	2467