Baylor Religion Survey, Wave V (2017)

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T5A (Weighted by WEIGHT) From your personal experience, do you think your use of the Internet has a very positive, mostly positive, mostly negative, very negative, or has it had no effect on these areas of your life? Social life   1) No effect   2) Very negative   3) Mostly negative   4) Mostly positive   5) Very positive

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
No effect	610	43.4%	43.4%
Very negative	24	1.7%	45.1%
Mostly negative	81	5.8%	50.9%
Mostly positive	578	41.1%	92.0%
Very positive	114	8.1%	100.1%
Missing	71

* 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
No effect	15.5% 17	28.6% 80	35.8% 64	41.6% 109	50.7% 114	63.5% 167	41.8% 551
Very negative	2.7% 3	2.5% 7	0.6% 1	1.5% 4	2.7% 6	1.5% 4	1.9% 25
Mostly negative	6.4% 7	10.7% 30	3.9% 7	5.0% 13	5.8% 13	3.0% 8	5.9% 78
Mostly positive	59.1% 65	45.7% 128	55.3% 99	43.1% 113	35.1% 79	27.8% 73	42.2% 557
Very positive	16.4% 18	12.5% 35	4.5% 8	8.8% 23	5.8% 13	4.2% 11	8.2% 108
TOTAL	100.0% 110	100.0% 280	100.0% 179	100.0% 262	100.0% 225	100.0% 263	1319

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
No effect	61.3% 73	55.6% 209	41.6% 180	30.6% 67	31.3% 77	43.5% 606
Very negative	6.7% 8	0.8% 3	0.9% 4	0.5% 1	2.8% 7	1.7% 23
Mostly negative	3.4% 4	4.5% 17	7.9% 34	6.8% 15	4.1% 10	5.7% 80
Mostly positive	22.7% 27	31.4% 118	39.5% 171	53.4% 117	56.5% 139	41.1% 572
Very positive	5.9% 7	7.7% 29	10.2% 44	8.7% 19	5.3% 13	8.0% 112
TOTAL	100.0% 119	100.0% 376	100.0% 433	100.0% 219	100.0% 246	1393

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish or other religions	No Religion	TOTAL
No effect	48.2% 183	45.7% 75	41.0% 41	45.8% 158	30.3% 37	38.7% 99	43.4% 593
Very negative	1.6% 6	0.0% 0	6.0% 6	1.2% 4	2.5% 3	1.6% 4	1.7% 23
Mostly negative	3.7% 14	6.7% 11	7.0% 7	4.9% 17	4.1% 5	7.4% 19	5.3% 73
Mostly positive	41.3% 157	40.9% 67	32.0% 32	38.8% 134	53.3% 65	43.4% 111	41.4% 566
Very positive	5.3% 20	6.7% 11	14.0% 14	9.3% 32	9.8% 12	9.0% 23	8.2% 112
TOTAL	100.0% 380	100.0% 164	100.0% 100	100.0% 345	100.0% 122	100.0% 256	1367

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Asian	Other races	TOTAL
No effect	43.5% 470	47.5% 75	31.1% 14	41.6% 52	43.4% 611
Very negative	1.4% 15	4.4% 7	0.0% 0	1.6% 2	1.7% 24
Mostly negative	6.0% 65	5.7% 9	0.0% 0	5.6% 7	5.8% 81
Mostly positive	43.0% 464	25.3% 40	62.2% 28	36.8% 46	41.1% 578
Very positive	6.1% 66	17.1% 27	6.7% 3	14.4% 18	8.1% 114
TOTAL	100.0% 1080	100.0% 158	100.0% 45	100.0% 125	1408