Baylor Religion Survey, Wave V (2017)

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L8 (Weighted by WEIGHT) Please think about where you would like your life to be 10 years from now. Do you think you are likely or unlikely to reach your 10 year goal?   1) Highly unlikely   2) Somewhat unlikely   3) Somewhat likely   4) Highly likely

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Highly unlikely	100	7.0%	7.0%
Somewhat unlikely	142	9.9%	16.9%
Somewhat likely	720	50.2%	67.1%
Highly likely	472	32.9%	100.0%
Missing	57

* The number of missing cases reported above is unweighted. Missing cases are not displayed in tables below.

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Religion Race

Age (I-AGE)

	Less than 25	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65+	TOTAL
Highly unlikely	2.7% 3	4.0% 11	5.0% 9	4.8% 13	7.6% 17	12.3% 33	6.5% 86
Somewhat unlikely	5.5% 6	3.3% 9	8.3% 15	11.1% 30	11.2% 25	17.9% 48	10.0% 133
Somewhat likely	50.9% 56	47.6% 131	51.1% 92	51.5% 139	51.6% 115	46.6% 125	49.6% 658
Highly likely	40.9% 45	45.1% 124	35.6% 64	32.6% 88	29.6% 66	23.1% 62	33.9% 449
TOTAL	100.0% 110	100.0% 275	100.0% 180	100.0% 270	100.0% 223	100.0% 268	1326

Education (I-EDUC)

	No high school degree	High school graduate (Grade 12 with diploma or GED certificate)	Some college	Four year bachelor's degree from a college or university (e.g., BS, BA, AB)	Postgraduate	TOTAL
Highly unlikely	10.5% 13	10.5% 41	5.4% 23	2.8% 6	4.0% 10	6.6% 93
Somewhat unlikely	22.6% 28	13.1% 51	8.7% 37	7.4% 16	2.4% 6	9.8% 138
Somewhat likely	37.9% 47	58.6% 228	51.3% 219	50.0% 108	44.0% 109	50.6% 711
Highly likely	29.0% 36	17.7% 69	34.7% 148	39.8% 86	49.6% 123	32.9% 462
TOTAL	100.0% 124	100.0% 389	100.0% 427	100.0% 216	100.0% 248	1404

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish or other religions	No Religion	TOTAL
Highly unlikely	5.6% 22	6.4% 11	5.3% 5	7.6% 27	5.9% 7	8.5% 22	6.7% 94
Somewhat unlikely	10.9% 43	10.4% 18	8.4% 8	13.0% 46	7.6% 9	6.6% 17	10.1% 141
Somewhat likely	52.8% 209	50.9% 88	50.5% 48	47.5% 168	42.9% 51	51.7% 134	50.0% 698
Highly likely	30.8% 122	32.4% 56	35.8% 34	31.9% 113	43.7% 52	33.2% 86	33.2% 463
TOTAL	100.0% 396	100.0% 173	100.0% 95	100.0% 354	100.0% 119	100.0% 259	1396

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Asian	Other races	TOTAL
Highly unlikely	7.0% 77	6.4% 10	4.4% 2	7.9% 11	7.0% 100
Somewhat unlikely	10.0% 109	7.0% 11	2.2% 1	15.1% 21	9.9% 142
Somewhat likely	50.3% 551	50.3% 79	51.1% 23	48.9% 68	50.2% 721
Highly likely	32.7% 358	36.3% 57	42.2% 19	28.1% 39	32.9% 473
TOTAL	100.0% 1095	100.0% 157	100.0% 45	100.0% 139	1436