Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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MONEY (Weighted by WEIGHT) If SAMPLE = 2: We'd like to send you $5 for your time. Can I please have your full name and a mailing address where we can send you the money?   1) Respondent wants the money   9) Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Respondent wants the money	4330	70.9%	70.9%
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	1781	29.1%	100%
Missing	11546	%	%

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
Respondent wants the money	75.1% 998	67.7% 1009	74.2% 870	66.5% 721	73.2% 480	68.6% 242	11	71.0% 4320
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	24.9% 331	32.3% 481	25.8% 302	33.5% 364	26.8% 176	31.4% 111	16	29.0% 1765
Missing	995	1445	1996	2340	1951	2623	0	11350
TOTAL	100.0% 1329	100.0% 1490	100.0% 1172	100.0% 1085	100.0% 656	100.0% 353	27	6085

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
Respondent wants the money	85.8% 1007	82.2% 652	68.3% 833	72.0% 662	63.2% 416	54.2% 398	363	72.2% 3968
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	14.2% 166	17.8% 141	31.7% 386	28.0% 258	36.8% 242	45.8% 336	251	27.8% 1529
Missing	1641	1136	1938	1402	1235	1841	0	9193
TOTAL	100.0% 1173	100.0% 793	100.0% 1219	100.0% 920	100.0% 658	100.0% 734	614	5497

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Respondent wants the money	65.1% 1673	72.5% 385	77.7% 558	96.2% 153	82.1% 124	72.7% 1437	0	70.9% 4330
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	34.9% 895	27.5% 146	22.3% 160	3.8% 6	17.9% 27	27.3% 540	8	29.1% 1774
Missing	6896	603	900	221	994	1857	0	11471
TOTAL	100.0% 2568	100.0% 531	100.0% 718	100.0% 159	100.0% 151	100.0% 1977	8	6104

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
Respondent wants the money	69.9% 1347	71.8% 892	73.7% 935	33.8% 23	78.5% 157	71.4% 942	34	71.3% 4296
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	30.1% 581	28.2% 350	26.3% 333	66.2% 45	21.5% 43	28.6% 378	50	28.7% 1730
Missing	5175	2757	1159	215	375	1673	0	11354
TOTAL	100.0% 1928	100.0% 1242	100.0% 1268	100.0% 68	100.0% 200	100.0% 1320	84	6026

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
Respondent wants the money	79.1% 730	76.2% 1390	70.2% 1183	59.9% 595	63.9% 424	10	71.0% 4322
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	20.9% 193	23.8% 435	29.8% 501	40.1% 398	36.1% 240	13	29.0% 1767
Missing	1460	3688	3130	1847	1366	0	11491
TOTAL	100.0% 923	100.0% 1825	100.0% 1684	100.0% 993	100.0% 664	23	6089

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Respondent wants the money	70.2% 2531	71.8% 1799	70.9% 4330
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	29.8% 1073	28.2% 708	29.1% 1781
Missing	4950	6596	11546
TOTAL	100.0% 3604	100.0% 2507	6111

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Respondent wants the money	65.6% 242	64.6% 1129	72.6% 1564	78.4% 835	80.4% 390	170	71.5% 4160
Respondent does not want the money (VOL.)	34.4% 127	35.4% 618	27.4% 591	21.6% 230	19.6% 95	120	28.5% 1661
Missing	898	3886	3827	1535	605	0	10751
TOTAL	100.0% 369	100.0% 1747	100.0% 2155	100.0% 1065	100.0% 485	290	5821