Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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DEMS (Weighted by WEIGHT) Is your overall opinion of the Democratic Party very favorable, mostly favorable, mostly unfavorable, or very unfavorable? (Combination of DEMS_A and DEMS_B)   1) Very favorable   2) Mostly favorable   3) Mostly unfavorable   4) Very unfavorable   5) Never heard of (VOL.)   8) Can't rate (VOL.)   9) Refused (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very favorable	2036	11.5%	11.5%
Mostly favorable	6536	37%	48.5%
Mostly unfavorable	4261	24.1%	72.6%
Very unfavorable	3036	17.2%	89.8%
Never heard of (VOL.)	13	.1%	89.9%
Can't rate (VOL.)	1097	6.2%	96.1%
Refused (VOL.)	677	3.8%	99.9%

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
Very favorable	11.8% 274	10.9% 320	12.6% 400	12.3% 420	11.4% 297	9.7% 288	38	11.5% 1999
Mostly favorable	45.4% 1054	41.3% 1211	35.0% 1109	32.6% 1115	35.4% 922	35.0% 1043	81	37.0% 6454
Mostly unfavorable	23.7% 551	22.7% 665	27.1% 860	25.7% 881	23.4% 609	22.3% 664	32	24.3% 4230
Very unfavorable	9.5% 220	11.4% 336	17.1% 542	18.6% 637	21.4% 557	24.0% 713	32	17.2% 3005
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.1% 3	0.2% 7	0.0% 0	0.1% 3	0	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	5.0% 116	7.6% 224	5.5% 174	6.8% 234	6.1% 160	5.1% 151	37	6.1% 1059
Refused (VOL.)	4.7% 109	6.1% 179	2.5% 80	3.8% 131	2.4% 63	3.8% 114	2	3.9% 676
TOTAL	100.0% 2324	100.0% 2935	100.0% 3168	100.0% 3425	100.0% 2608	100.0% 2976	222	17436

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
Very favorable	17.5% 492	16.4% 316	13.1% 415	9.2% 213	8.6% 162	6.4% 166	271	12.0% 1764
Mostly favorable	38.2% 1076	34.7% 669	40.3% 1273	38.1% 884	34.8% 658	36.4% 937	1038	37.4% 5497
Mostly unfavorable	16.1% 452	19.2% 371	22.7% 717	28.5% 662	31.0% 587	32.2% 829	642	24.6% 3618
Very unfavorable	14.2% 400	14.4% 277	14.3% 450	19.1% 444	20.5% 388	21.1% 543	533	17.0% 2502
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.5% 13	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	7.3% 206	6.2% 120	8.4% 265	3.6% 83	3.4% 65	2.5% 64	294	5.5% 803
Refused (VOL.)	6.2% 175	9.1% 175	1.1% 36	1.5% 34	1.7% 32	1.4% 36	189	3.3% 488
TOTAL	100.0% 2814	100.0% 1928	100.0% 3156	100.0% 2320	100.0% 1892	100.0% 2575	2967	14685

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Very favorable	9.8% 925	17.4% 197	14.3% 231	16.3% 62	12.7% 145	12.0% 460	15	11.5% 2020
Mostly favorable	33.3% 3150	44.4% 504	36.0% 583	42.9% 163	34.5% 395	44.4% 1701	41	37.0% 6496
Mostly unfavorable	26.9% 2542	14.6% 166	19.3% 313	17.9% 68	20.9% 239	24.3% 931	2	24.2% 4259
Very unfavorable	20.5% 1943	10.5% 119	18.7% 303	12.4% 47	19.3% 221	10.3% 394	9	17.2% 3027
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.1% 7	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.8% 3	0.3% 3	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	6.3% 600	6.5% 74	6.7% 109	5.3% 20	7.6% 87	5.2% 200	7	6.2% 1090
Refused (VOL.)	3.1% 297	6.5% 74	4.9% 79	4.5% 17	4.7% 54	3.8% 147	8	3.8% 668
TOTAL	100.0% 9464	100.0% 1134	100.0% 1618	100.0% 380	100.0% 1144	100.0% 3833	82	17573

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
Very favorable	12.0% 851	11.7% 469	11.2% 273	13.1% 37	12.5% 72	10.1% 301	33	11.5% 2003
Mostly favorable	33.0% 2341	39.2% 1569	29.5% 717	55.8% 158	52.6% 303	45.0% 1347	101	37.0% 6435
Mostly unfavorable	25.0% 1774	24.1% 962	28.6% 695	15.2% 43	16.5% 95	20.8% 623	68	24.1% 4192
Very unfavorable	20.5% 1453	14.8% 590	20.4% 496	13.1% 37	6.4% 37	13.2% 394	29	17.3% 3007
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.2% 13	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	6.1% 436	5.1% 205	6.7% 162	1.4% 4	9.0% 52	7.0% 209	29	6.1% 1068
Refused (VOL.)	3.3% 234	5.1% 204	3.5% 84	1.4% 4	3.0% 17	4.0% 119	15	3.8% 662
TOTAL	100.0% 7102	100.0% 3999	100.0% 2427	100.0% 283	100.0% 576	100.0% 2993	275	17380

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
Very favorable	20.9% 498	12.3% 678	8.1% 392	8.4% 238	10.3% 208	23	11.5% 2014
Mostly favorable	31.2% 744	34.9% 1923	39.2% 1889	38.5% 1095	42.6% 864	21	37.1% 6515
Mostly unfavorable	13.6% 325	22.7% 1253	27.8% 1338	27.9% 794	27.1% 549	2	24.2% 4259
Very unfavorable	14.6% 348	17.5% 964	16.8% 809	20.5% 581	15.8% 320	14	17.2% 3022
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.4% 10	0.1% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	10.7% 254	8.3% 460	4.4% 214	3.2% 92	3.3% 66	10	6.2% 1086
Refused (VOL.)	8.6% 204	4.2% 232	3.6% 172	1.4% 41	1.0% 21	7	3.8% 670
TOTAL	100.0% 2383	100.0% 5513	100.0% 4814	100.0% 2841	100.0% 2028	77	17579

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very favorable	10.7% 916	12.3% 1120	11.5% 2036
Mostly favorable	32.9% 2812	40.9% 3724	37.0% 6536
Mostly unfavorable	25.9% 2216	22.5% 2046	24.1% 4262
Very unfavorable	21.1% 1805	13.5% 1232	17.2% 3037
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.1% 7	0.1% 6	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	5.6% 483	6.7% 613	6.2% 1096
Refused (VOL.)	3.7% 315	4.0% 363	3.8% 678
TOTAL	100.0% 8554	100.0% 9104	17658

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Very favorable	7.2% 91	8.4% 472	11.2% 670	18.9% 492	14.7% 160	152	11.4% 1885
Mostly favorable	12.2% 155	23.0% 1294	47.3% 2831	54.6% 1420	51.6% 562	274	37.8% 6262
Mostly unfavorable	27.3% 346	32.5% 1833	23.3% 1392	14.7% 382	16.5% 180	129	24.9% 4133
Very unfavorable	48.4% 614	27.3% 1538	9.0% 538	5.1% 132	10.6% 116	99	17.7% 2938
Never heard of (VOL.)	0.0% 0	0.1% 7	0.0% 0	0.1% 3	0.3% 3	0	0.1% 13
Can't rate (VOL.)	2.8% 36	4.2% 237	7.2% 430	3.7% 95	3.2% 35	264	5.0% 833
Refused (VOL.)	2.1% 27	4.5% 253	2.0% 121	2.9% 76	3.1% 34	167	3.1% 511
TOTAL	100.0% 1269	100.0% 5634	100.0% 5982	100.0% 2600	100.0% 1090	1085	16575