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Religion and Public Life Survey, 2009

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FEWAB_A (Weighted by WEIGHT)

As you may know, Barack Obama has said that he favors reducing the number of abortions. What about you? Regardless of whether or not you think abortion should be legal, do you think it would be a good thing to reduce the number of abortions performed in the United States, or don't you feel this way? [Form 2 only] (Q153)

	1) Good thing to reduce the number of abortions
	2) Don't feel this way
	9) Don't know/Refused (VOL.)

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	3036	68.8%	68.8%
Don't feel this way	894	20.3%	89.1%
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	480	10.9%	100%
Missing	13248	%	%

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24	25 to 34	35 to 44	45 to 54	55 to 64	65 or older	Missing	TOTAL
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	74.9% 436	66.4% 455	74.3% 608	66.2% 548	70.2% 471	63.6% 485	34	69.1% 3003
Don't feel this way	21.1% 123	24.4% 167	19.3% 158	20.4% 169	17.6% 118	19.0% 145	14	20.2% 880
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	4.0% 23	9.2% 63	6.4% 52	13.4% 111	12.2% 82	17.3% 132	17	10.7% 463
Missing	1742	2250	2350	2598	1936	2214	0	13090
TOTAL	100.0% 582	100.0% 685	100.0% 818	100.0% 828	100.0% 671	100.0% 762	65	4346

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
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	67.5% 537	69.5% 331	64.0% 463	71.8% 409	70.1% 336	76.1% 516	443	69.7% 2592
Don't feel this way	20.9% 166	19.5% 93	24.5% 177	18.9% 108	19.4% 93	17.7% 120	135	20.3% 757
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	11.6% 92	10.9% 52	11.5% 83	9.3% 53	10.4% 50	6.2% 42	109	10.0% 372
Missing	2019	1453	2434	1751	1414	1896	0	10967
TOTAL	100.0% 795	100.0% 476	100.0% 723	100.0% 570	100.0% 479	100.0% 678	687	3721

Marital status (I-MARITAL)

	Married	Living with a partner	Divorced	Separated	Widowed	Never been married	Missing	TOTAL
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	73.5% 1755	53.7% 137	61.7% 245	82.4% 98	47.7% 114	68.1% 676	12	68.9% 3025
Don't feel this way	16.0% 382	38.8% 99	30.0% 119	3.4% 4	26.4% 63	22.9% 227	0	20.4% 894
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	10.5% 252	7.5% 19	8.3% 33	14.3% 17	25.9% 62	9.0% 89	9	10.7% 472
Missing	7076	879	1223	261	905	2843	0	13187
TOTAL	100.0% 2389	100.0% 255	100.0% 397	100.0% 119	100.0% 239	100.0% 992	21	4391

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
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	69.1% 1213	75.4% 792	71.0% 503	42.0% 37	72.5% 74	56.1% 347	69	68.6% 2966
Don't feel this way	19.6% 344	19.2% 202	12.6% 89	37.5% 33	18.6% 19	31.2% 193	13	20.4% 880
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	11.3% 198	5.3% 56	16.4% 116	20.5% 18	8.8% 9	12.6% 78	5	11.0% 475
Missing	5348	2948	1720	193	474	2376	0	13059
TOTAL	100.0% 1755	100.0% 1050	100.0% 708	100.0% 88	100.0% 102	100.0% 618	87	4321

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
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	69.8% 412	64.5% 921	68.9% 826	70.9% 470	76.8% 401	6	68.8% 3030
Don't feel this way	16.9% 100	24.9% 356	21.2% 254	16.6% 110	13.6% 71	3	20.2% 891
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	13.2% 78	10.6% 151	9.8% 118	12.5% 83	9.6% 50	0	10.9% 480
Missing	1793	4085	3616	2177	1508	0	13179
TOTAL	100.0% 590	100.0% 1428	100.0% 1198	100.0% 663	100.0% 522	9	4401

Sex (I-SEX)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	68.7% 1472	69.0% 1564	68.8% 3036
Don't feel this way	20.0% 428	20.6% 466	20.3% 894
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	11.4% 244	10.4% 236	10.9% 480
Missing	6411	6836	13247
TOTAL	100.0% 2144	100.0% 2266	4410

Political ideology (I-POLITICS)

	Very conservative	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Very liberal	Missing	TOTAL
Good thing to reduce the number of abortions	80.4% 225	74.6% 1024	72.4% 1176	56.1% 347	60.4% 160	103	70.5% 2932
Don't feel this way	7.9% 22	16.6% 228	19.1% 310	30.5% 189	27.5% 73	71	19.8% 822
Don't know/Refused (VOL.)	11.8% 33	8.7% 120	8.5% 138	13.4% 83	12.1% 32	74	9.8% 406
Missing	988	4261	4357	1981	825	0	12412
TOTAL	100.0% 280	100.0% 1372	100.0% 1624	100.0% 619	100.0% 265	248	4160