Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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ABORTN_A (Weighted by WEIGHT) Now thinking about the abortion issue... Do you think abortion should be... [Choices read in reverse order for random half of sample] (Q125)   1) Legal in all cases   2) Legal in most cases   3) Illegal in most cases   4) Illegal in all cases   9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Legal in all cases	1406	15.9%	15.9%
Legal in most cases	2572	29.1%	45%
Illegal in most cases	2491	28.2%	73.2%
Illegal in all cases	1489	16.9%	90.1%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	870	9.9%	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
Legal in all cases	21.6% 252	19.0% 267	14.7% 239	15.7% 270	16.4% 210	9.8% 148	19	15.9% 1386
Legal in most cases	32.2% 375	27.2% 382	31.3% 509	31.2% 535	30.0% 385	23.3% 353	34	29.2% 2539
Illegal in most cases	24.3% 283	28.9% 407	27.7% 451	26.7% 458	29.6% 379	32.2% 487	26	28.3% 2465
Illegal in all cases	17.3% 201	15.4% 217	16.0% 260	14.9% 255	14.8% 190	22.9% 347	20	16.9% 1470
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	4.6% 54	9.5% 133	10.4% 169	11.5% 197	9.2% 118	11.8% 179	20	9.8% 850
Missing	1158	1528	1540	1711	1325	1463	0	8725
TOTAL	100.0% 1165	100.0% 1406	100.0% 1628	100.0% 1715	100.0% 1282	100.0% 1514	119	8710

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
Legal in all cases	14.7% 237	20.2% 195	16.0% 251	15.6% 171	13.7% 128	17.0% 215	209	16.1% 1197
Legal in most cases	20.4% 329	27.1% 262	28.9% 452	34.3% 376	36.3% 338	37.2% 471	345	29.9% 2228
Illegal in most cases	24.5% 395	27.1% 262	30.1% 470	32.0% 351	29.0% 270	32.8% 415	328	29.1% 2163
Illegal in all cases	24.9% 402	18.2% 176	16.9% 264	11.6% 127	14.3% 133	8.1% 102	285	16.2% 1204
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	15.6% 252	7.4% 72	8.1% 127	6.6% 72	6.7% 62	5.1% 64	221	8.7% 649
Missing	1199	962	1594	1226	962	1308	0	7251
TOTAL	100.0% 1615	100.0% 967	100.0% 1564	100.0% 1097	100.0% 931	100.0% 1267	1388	7441

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Legal in all cases	12.3% 566	21.7% 125	21.1% 184	9.5% 21	11.8% 62	21.9% 436	11	15.9% 1394
Legal in most cases	28.8% 1328	30.9% 178	28.7% 250	22.5% 50	21.1% 111	32.6% 649	7	29.2% 2566
Illegal in most cases	32.2% 1485	21.2% 122	26.2% 228	27.0% 60	24.3% 128	23.4% 466	3	28.3% 2489
Illegal in all cases	17.9% 823	14.1% 81	12.9% 112	23.9% 53	28.3% 149	13.5% 269	2	16.9% 1487
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	8.8% 403	12.2% 70	11.1% 97	17.1% 38	14.6% 77	8.6% 171	13	9.7% 856
Missing	4859	558	747	157	617	1843	0	8781
TOTAL	100.0% 4605	100.0% 576	100.0% 871	100.0% 222	100.0% 527	100.0% 1991	36	8792

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
Legal in all cases	10.9% 377	12.2% 247	12.3% 167	45.3% 68	33.5% 76	31.1% 448	24	16.0% 1383
Legal in most cases	26.2% 908	30.8% 621	27.9% 380	31.3% 47	46.7% 106	31.3% 450	60	29.0% 2512
Illegal in most cases	32.4% 1124	30.0% 606	30.8% 419	2.7% 4	9.7% 22	20.0% 288	29	28.4% 2463
Illegal in all cases	20.2% 701	16.4% 331	21.9% 298	9.3% 14	2.2% 5	9.0% 129	11	17.1% 1478
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	10.4% 362	10.6% 213	7.1% 96	11.3% 17	7.9% 18	8.7% 125	40	9.6% 831
Missing	3630	1981	1068	133	350	1554	0	8716
TOTAL	100.0% 3472	100.0% 2018	100.0% 1360	100.0% 150	100.0% 227	100.0% 1440	164	8667

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
Legal in all cases	10.6% 128	16.1% 460	16.1% 375	16.1% 228	21.3% 211	4	15.9% 1402
Legal in most cases	17.0% 205	28.1% 805	29.2% 681	36.6% 517	34.8% 345	20	29.0% 2553
Illegal in most cases	28.4% 342	28.9% 828	29.7% 691	27.3% 386	24.6% 244	0	28.3% 2491
Illegal in all cases	28.7% 346	18.4% 526	15.8% 369	9.7% 137	11.0% 109	2	16.9% 1487
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	15.3% 185	8.6% 245	9.1% 213	10.3% 146	8.2% 81	0	9.9% 870
Missing	1177	2649	2485	1426	1040	0	8777
TOTAL	100.0% 1206	100.0% 2864	100.0% 2329	100.0% 1414	100.0% 990	26	8803

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Legal in all cases	13.0% 555	18.7% 851	15.9% 1406
Legal in most cases	29.8% 1274	28.5% 1298	29.1% 2572
Illegal in most cases	31.3% 1340	25.3% 1151	28.2% 2491
Illegal in all cases	15.6% 668	18.1% 822	16.9% 1490
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	10.2% 438	9.5% 432	9.9% 870
Missing	4280	4549	8829
TOTAL	100.0% 4275	100.0% 4554	8829

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Legal in all cases	2.0% 12	9.6% 273	15.0% 458	27.8% 343	44.0% 244	77	16.0% 1330
Legal in most cases	15.6% 95	22.4% 639	35.2% 1075	39.7% 490	31.2% 173	101	29.8% 2472
Illegal in most cases	40.7% 248	36.3% 1034	29.1% 889	15.0% 185	11.2% 62	73	29.1% 2418
Illegal in all cases	39.4% 240	21.9% 626	11.3% 347	9.2% 113	8.3% 46	118	16.5% 1372
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	2.3% 14	9.8% 280	9.5% 289	8.3% 103	5.4% 30	154	8.6% 716
Missing	659	2782	2924	1367	535	0	8267
TOTAL	100.0% 609	100.0% 2852	100.0% 3058	100.0% 1234	100.0% 555	523	8308