Baylor Religion Survey, Wave V (2017)

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Q20G (Weighted by WEIGHT) In your opinion, how well do each of the following words describe God? Forgiving   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	99	8.0%	8.0%
Not very well	47	3.8%	11.8%
Somewhat well	151	12.2%	24.0%
Very well	938	76.0%	100.0%
Missing	233

* 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	8.0% 7	11.1% 26	14.0% 19	9.1% 22	5.7% 11	4.2% 10	8.4% 95
Not very well	10.3% 9	5.5% 13	5.1% 7	3.7% 9	3.1% 6	1.3% 3	4.2% 47
Somewhat well	13.8% 12	19.1% 45	15.4% 21	8.3% 20	11.5% 22	8.4% 20	12.4% 140
Very well	67.8% 59	64.3% 151	65.4% 89	78.8% 190	79.7% 153	86.2% 206	75.0% 848
TOTAL	100.0% 87	100.0% 235	100.0% 136	100.0% 241	100.0% 192	100.0% 239	1130

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	1.1% 1	7.4% 25	6.7% 25	8.3% 15	14.2% 30	8.0% 96
Not very well	9.7% 9	1.5% 5	5.1% 19	3.3% 6	3.8% 8	3.9% 47
Somewhat well	8.6% 8	12.1% 41	11.5% 43	16.6% 30	11.4% 24	12.2% 146
Very well	80.6% 75	79.1% 269	76.7% 287	71.8% 130	70.6% 149	75.9% 910
TOTAL	100.0% 93	100.0% 340	100.0% 374	100.0% 181	100.0% 211	1199

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Black Protestant	Catholic	Jewish or other religions	No Religion	TOTAL
Not at all	3.4% 13	7.4% 12	0.0% 0	5.7% 19	11.1% 11	29.3% 39	7.9% 94
Not very well	1.0% 4	0.6% 1	8.0% 7	3.3% 11	6.1% 6	13.5% 18	3.9% 47
Somewhat well	6.6% 25	11.7% 19	3.4% 3	12.1% 40	20.2% 20	24.8% 33	11.7% 140
Very well	89.0% 339	80.4% 131	88.6% 78	78.9% 261	62.6% 62	32.3% 43	76.5% 914
TOTAL	100.0% 381	100.0% 163	100.0% 88	100.0% 331	100.0% 99	100.0% 133	1195

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Asian	Other races	TOTAL
Not at all	8.3% 78	1.4% 2	20.0% 6	10.2% 12	7.9% 98
Not very well	3.5% 33	5.5% 8	0.0% 0	5.1% 6	3.8% 47
Somewhat well	11.8% 111	9.0% 13	20.0% 6	17.8% 21	12.2% 151
Very well	76.4% 719	84.1% 122	60.0% 18	66.9% 79	76.0% 938
TOTAL	100.0% 941	100.0% 145	100.0% 30	100.0% 118	1234