Baylor Religion Survey, Wave V (2017)

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T5F (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? My self-esteem   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	736	52.8%	52.8%
Very negative	24	1.7%	54.5%
Mostly negative	106	7.6%	62.1%
Mostly positive	418	30.0%	92.1%
Very positive	109	7.8%	99.9%
Missing	79

* 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	30.0% 33	39.6% 110	44.0% 77	56.4% 145	57.5% 127	67.4% 176	51.3% 668
Very negative	2.7% 3	3.2% 9	1.7% 3	0.4% 1	2.7% 6	0.8% 2	1.8% 24
Mostly negative	14.5% 16	16.2% 45	9.7% 17	5.4% 14	3.2% 7	1.5% 4	7.9% 103
Mostly positive	37.3% 41	30.9% 86	40.6% 71	30.0% 77	30.3% 67	24.1% 63	31.1% 405
Very positive	15.5% 17	10.1% 28	4.0% 7	7.8% 20	6.3% 14	6.1% 16	7.8% 102
TOTAL	100.0% 110	100.0% 278	100.0% 175	100.0% 257	100.0% 221	100.0% 261	1302

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	55.3% 63	56.2% 208	54.1% 233	47.7% 103	50.0% 124	53.0% 731
Very negative	5.3% 6	3.0% 11	0.7% 3	0.0% 0	1.6% 4	1.7% 24
Mostly negative	7.9% 9	6.5% 24	4.9% 21	11.6% 25	10.9% 27	7.7% 106
Mostly positive	20.2% 23	24.6% 91	30.2% 130	37.5% 81	35.9% 89	30.0% 414
Very positive	11.4% 13	9.7% 36	10.2% 44	3.2% 7	1.6% 4	7.5% 104
TOTAL	100.0% 114	100.0% 370	100.0% 431	100.0% 216	100.0% 248	1379

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish or other religions	No Religion	TOTAL
No effect	56.4% 211	53.0% 88	51.0% 50	55.9% 193	42.4% 50	47.8% 122	52.7% 714
Very negative	2.4% 9	1.2% 2	6.1% 6	1.4% 5	0.8% 1	0.8% 2	1.8% 25
Mostly negative	3.7% 14	12.0% 20	4.1% 4	7.2% 25	6.8% 8	10.6% 27	7.2% 98
Mostly positive	30.2% 113	27.1% 45	22.4% 22	27.8% 96	41.5% 49	33.7% 86	30.3% 411
Very positive	7.2% 27	6.6% 11	16.3% 16	7.5% 26	8.5% 10	7.1% 18	8.0% 108
TOTAL	100.0% 374	100.0% 166	100.0% 98	100.0% 345	100.0% 118	100.0% 255	1356

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Asian	Other races	TOTAL
No effect	54.2% 579	49.7% 77	45.5% 20	48.0% 60	52.8% 736
Very negative	1.1% 12	5.2% 8	0.0% 0	3.2% 4	1.7% 24
Mostly negative	8.5% 91	4.5% 7	0.0% 0	7.2% 9	7.7% 107
Mostly positive	29.7% 318	26.5% 41	50.0% 22	28.8% 36	29.9% 417
Very positive	6.5% 69	14.2% 22	4.5% 2	12.8% 16	7.8% 109
TOTAL	100.0% 1069	100.0% 155	100.0% 44	100.0% 125	1393