Baylor Religion Survey, Wave V (2017)

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Q20D (Weighted by WEIGHT) In your opinion, how well do each of the following words describe God? Punishing   1) Not at all   2) Not very well   3) Somewhat well   4) Very well

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Not at all	519	44.8%	44.8%
Not very well	312	26.9%	71.7%
Somewhat well	220	19.0%	90.7%
Very well	107	9.2%	99.9%
Missing	302

* 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
Not at all	23.5% 20	39.4% 91	48.5% 66	41.8% 99	50.0% 90	55.0% 115	44.6% 481
Not very well	56.5% 48	32.0% 74	27.2% 37	21.5% 51	25.0% 45	19.6% 41	27.5% 296
Somewhat well	18.8% 16	18.6% 43	20.6% 28	21.1% 50	18.9% 34	14.8% 31	18.7% 202
Very well	1.2% 1	10.0% 23	3.7% 5	15.6% 37	6.1% 11	10.5% 22	9.2% 99
TOTAL	100.0% 85	100.0% 231	100.0% 136	100.0% 237	100.0% 180	100.0% 209	1078

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
Not at all	38.8% 31	44.9% 142	45.4% 161	39.1% 70	53.6% 112	45.3% 516
Not very well	21.3% 17	18.7% 59	31.5% 112	33.5% 60	30.1% 63	27.3% 311
Somewhat well	20.0% 16	25.9% 82	15.2% 54	19.6% 35	12.0% 25	18.6% 212
Very well	20.0% 16	10.4% 33	7.9% 28	7.8% 14	4.3% 9	8.8% 100
TOTAL	100.0% 80	100.0% 316	100.0% 355	100.0% 179	100.0% 209	1139

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish or other religions	No Religion	TOTAL
Not at all	37.2% 132	52.9% 81	38.6% 32	45.9% 140	50.0% 49	57.3% 75	45.2% 509
Not very well	25.4% 90	32.7% 50	15.7% 13	29.8% 91	24.5% 24	25.2% 33	26.8% 301
Somewhat well	22.8% 81	10.5% 16	25.3% 21	16.7% 51	22.4% 22	13.7% 18	18.6% 209
Very well	14.6% 52	3.9% 6	20.5% 17	7.5% 23	3.1% 3	3.8% 5	9.4% 106
TOTAL	100.0% 355	100.0% 153	100.0% 83	100.0% 305	100.0% 98	100.0% 131	1125

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Asian	Other races	TOTAL
Not at all	47.1% 417	37.8% 51	51.7% 15	33.0% 35	44.8% 518
Not very well	28.7% 254	17.0% 23	27.6% 8	25.5% 27	27.0% 312
Somewhat well	15.9% 141	28.1% 38	20.7% 6	32.1% 34	18.9% 219
Very well	8.4% 74	17.0% 23	0.0% 0	9.4% 10	9.3% 107
TOTAL	100.0% 886	100.0% 135	100.0% 29	100.0% 106	1156