Baylor Religion Survey, Wave II (2007)

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IMPSAME (Weighted by WEIGHT) Q64a. How important are the following things to you? That your children have the same religion as you   1) Not important at all   2) Not very important   3) Somewhat important   4) Very important   7) Undecided   8) Does not apply

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Not important at all	254	16.5%	16.5%
Not very important	287	18.7%	35.2%
Somewhat important	413	26.9%	62.1%
Very important	440	28.6%	90.7%
Undecided	133	8.7%	99.4%
Does not apply	10	.7%	100.1%
Missing	118

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

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Religion Region Worship attendance

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29 years old	30-39 years old	40-49 years old	50-59 years old	60-69 years old	70 years and older	TOTAL
Not important at all	13.5% 31	16.7% 52	17.7% 58	16.3% 48	19.2% 38	15.4% 27	16.5% 254
Not very important	20.5% 47	14.4% 45	15.9% 52	20.0% 59	23.2% 46	22.3% 39	18.7% 288
Somewhat important	17.9% 41	25.3% 79	29.0% 95	26.8% 79	27.8% 55	36.6% 64	26.9% 413
Very important	39.7% 91	34.3% 107	27.4% 90	23.7% 70	22.7% 45	20.6% 36	28.6% 439
Undecided	7.0% 16	8.3% 26	10.1% 33	12.2% 36	7.1% 14	4.6% 8	8.7% 133
Does not apply	1.3% 3	1.0% 3	0.0% 0	1.0% 3	0.0% 0	0.6% 1	0.7% 10
TOTAL	100.0% 229	100.0% 312	100.0% 328	100.0% 295	100.0% 198	100.0% 175	1537

Education (I-EDUC)

	No high school diploma	High school graduate	Some college	Trade/technical/vocational training	College graduate	Postgraduate work/degree	TOTAL
Not important at all	22.2% 26	15.5% 69	14.2% 60	18.1% 27	19.0% 39	16.6% 32	16.5% 253
Not very important	23.9% 28	18.7% 83	16.7% 71	17.4% 26	17.1% 35	21.2% 41	18.5% 284
Somewhat important	28.2% 33	26.4% 117	26.2% 111	30.2% 45	24.9% 51	29.0% 56	27.0% 413
Very important	15.4% 18	29.5% 131	33.7% 143	24.8% 37	31.7% 65	24.4% 47	28.8% 441
Undecided	9.4% 11	9.9% 44	8.3% 35	9.4% 14	5.4% 11	8.3% 16	8.6% 131
Does not apply	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	0.9% 4	0.0% 0	2.0% 4	0.5% 1	0.7% 10
TOTAL	100.0% 117	100.0% 444	100.0% 424	100.0% 149	100.0% 205	100.0% 193	1532

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Not important at all	17.6% 126	15.6% 128	16.5% 254
Not very important	19.2% 137	18.1% 149	18.6% 286
Somewhat important	24.2% 173	29.2% 240	26.9% 413
Very important	27.0% 193	30.1% 247	28.6% 440
Undecided	11.6% 83	6.1% 50	8.7% 133
Does not apply	0.4% 3	0.9% 7	0.7% 10
TOTAL	100.0% 715	100.0% 821	1536

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Evangelical Protestant	Black Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Catholic	Other	None	TOTAL
Not important at all	9.5% 47	6.8% 5	17.4% 52	11.1% 36	17.5% 21	42.5% 74	15.8% 235
Not very important	12.3% 61	5.5% 4	27.1% 81	23.7% 77	15.8% 19	19.0% 33	18.5% 275
Somewhat important	26.7% 132	30.1% 22	34.8% 104	31.7% 103	28.3% 34	7.5% 13	27.5% 408
Very important	45.3% 224	54.8% 40	13.0% 39	28.0% 91	28.3% 34	2.9% 5	29.2% 433
Undecided	5.5% 27	1.4% 1	7.7% 23	5.5% 18	10.0% 12	25.3% 44	8.4% 125
Does not apply	0.6% 3	1.4% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.9% 5	0.6% 9
TOTAL	100.0% 494	100.0% 73	100.0% 299	100.0% 325	100.0% 120	100.0% 174	1485

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Not important at all	17.5% 58	15.3% 54	14.5% 73	19.9% 69	16.5% 254
Not very important	23.9% 79	18.4% 65	15.5% 78	18.7% 65	18.7% 287
Somewhat important	25.1% 83	28.8% 102	29.2% 147	23.3% 81	26.9% 413
Very important	25.1% 83	29.4% 104	34.1% 172	23.6% 82	28.7% 441
Undecided	7.3% 24	7.9% 28	6.2% 31	14.1% 49	8.6% 132
Does not apply	1.2% 4	0.3% 1	0.6% 3	0.3% 1	0.6% 9
TOTAL	100.0% 331	100.0% 354	100.0% 504	100.0% 347	1536

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Less than once a year	Once or twice a year	Several times a year	1-3 times a month	About weekly	Weekly or more	TOTAL
Not important at all	36.1% 168	20.1% 32	15.4% 25	6.2% 11	6.7% 6	2.0% 9	16.6% 251
Not very important	27.5% 128	32.1% 51	21.6% 35	15.7% 28	8.9% 8	7.2% 33	18.7% 283
Somewhat important	12.0% 56	32.1% 51	36.4% 59	41.0% 73	42.2% 38	27.5% 126	26.6% 403
Very important	4.9% 23	11.3% 18	22.8% 37	31.5% 56	34.4% 31	59.0% 270	28.8% 435
Undecided	17.8% 83	4.4% 7	3.7% 6	5.6% 10	6.7% 6	4.4% 20	8.7% 132
Does not apply	1.7% 8	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	1.1% 1	0.0% 0	0.6% 9
TOTAL	100.0% 466	100.0% 159	100.0% 162	100.0% 178	100.0% 90	100.0% 458	1513