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Southern Focus Poll, Southern Sample, Spring 1999

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When it comes to your religious faith, would you say you are Pentecostal, fundamentalist, evangelical, mainline Protestant, or theologically liberal? NOTE: Asked only of respondents who answered "Protestant" or "Christian or just Christian" to RELAFFL AND did not answer "Christian Science," "Catholic," "Roman Catholic," or "Not Religious" to RELAFCHK. Open-ended responses from those who answered "Other" are coded in the dataset as OTHRELID.

	1) Pentecostal
	2) Fundamentalist
	3) Evangelical
	4) Mainline Protestant
	5) Theologically liberal
	6) Other (Specify)
	7) None of the above
	8) Don't know/No answer

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Pentecostal	66	11%	11%	-1.68
Fundamentalist	42	7%	18%	-1.24
Evangelical	49	8.2%	26.1%	-.79
Mainline Protestant	127	21.1%	47.3%	-.35
Theologically liberal	128	21.3%	68.6%	.1
Other (Specify)	11	1.8%	70.4%	.54
None of the above	62	10.3%	80.7%	.99
Don't know/No answer	116	19.3%	100%	1.43

Variable Comparisons

Age (I-AGE)

	18 to 24 years old	25 to 44 years old	45 to 64 years old	65 years or older	TOTAL
Pentecostal	13.8% 9	12.7% 30	10.2% 20	6.3% 6	10.9% 65
Fundamentalist	4.6% 3	6.4% 15	9.1% 18	6.3% 6	7.1% 42
Evangelical	3.1% 2	7.6% 18	12.2% 24	5.2% 5	8.2% 49
Mainline Protestant	4.6% 3	18.2% 43	23.4% 46	35.4% 34	21.2% 126
Theologically liberal	20.0% 13	22.9% 54	25.9% 51	9.4% 9	21.4% 127
Other (Specify)	1.5% 1	1.3% 3	1.5% 3	4.2% 4	1.9% 11
None of the above	15.4% 10	8.9% 21	8.6% 17	12.5% 12	10.1% 60
Don't know/No answer	36.9% 24	22.0% 52	9.1% 18	20.8% 20	19.2% 114
TOTAL	100.0% 65	100.0% 236	100.0% 197	100.0% 96	594

Education (I-EDUC)

	1st-11th grade	12th grade (High school)	Some college (Two year degree)	4 year college graduate	Advanced degree (MA, PHD, LLD, MD)	TOTAL
Pentecostal	13.7% 7	14.3% 27	9.7% 15	6.0% 8	11.6% 8	10.9% 65
Fundamentalist	7.8% 4	6.3% 12	8.4% 13	8.2% 11	2.9% 2	7.0% 42
Evangelical	7.8% 4	6.9% 13	7.7% 12	9.0% 12	11.6% 8	8.2% 49
Mainline Protestant	7.8% 4	11.6% 22	25.8% 40	29.1% 39	30.4% 21	21.1% 126
Theologically liberal	17.6% 9	18.0% 34	21.9% 34	23.1% 31	29.0% 20	21.4% 128
Other (Specify)	0.0% 0	2.1% 4	3.2% 5	0.0% 0	2.9% 2	1.8% 11
None of the above	11.8% 6	12.7% 24	8.4% 13	9.7% 13	8.7% 6	10.4% 62
Don't know/No answer	33.3% 17	28.0% 53	14.8% 23	14.9% 20	2.9% 2	19.2% 115
TOTAL	100.0% 51	100.0% 189	100.0% 155	100.0% 134	100.0% 69	598

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Pentecostal	8.6% 22	12.7% 44	11.0% 66
Fundamentalist	8.2% 21	6.1% 21	7.0% 42
Evangelical	7.8% 20	8.4% 29	8.2% 49
Mainline Protestant	25.9% 66	17.6% 61	21.1% 127
Theologically liberal	18.8% 48	23.1% 80	21.3% 128
Other (Specify)	2.4% 6	1.4% 5	1.8% 11
None of the above	9.4% 24	11.0% 38	10.3% 62
Don't know/No answer	18.8% 48	19.7% 68	19.3% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 255	100.0% 346	601

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Some other religion (Specify)	No religion [Not religious/agnostic/atheist]	TOTAL
Pentecostal	10.5% 61	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	25.0% 5	0.00% 0	11.0% 66
Fundamentalist	7.2% 42	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	7.0% 42
Evangelical	8.1% 47	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	10.0% 2	0.00% 0	8.2% 49
Mainline Protestant	21.5% 125	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	10.0% 2	0.00% 0	21.1% 127
Theologically liberal	21.5% 125	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	15.0% 3	0.00% 0	21.3% 128
Other (Specify)	1.9% 11	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	1.8% 11
None of the above	9.8% 57	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	25.0% 5	0.00% 0	10.3% 62
Don't know/No answer	19.4% 113	0.00% 0	0.00% 0	15.0% 3	0.00% 0	19.3% 116
TOTAL	100.0% 581	100.0% 0	100.0% 0	100.0% 20	100.0% 0	601