Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Brazil

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FATE (Percentages are weighted by GPWGT; Total Ns reported are unweighted) As I read from a list, please tell me how important each factor is in people's economic success. Is fate a very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all an important factor in people's economic success?   1) Very important   2) Somewhat important   3) Not too important   4) Not at all important   8) Don't know   9) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	55.1%	55.1%
Somewhat important	24.4%	79.5%
Not too important	12.1%	91.6%
Not at all important	7.3%	98.9%
Don't know	1.0%	99.9%
Refused	.0%	99.9%
Total N = 1000

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Race Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18 - 23	24 - 29	30 - 39	40 - 49	50 or more	TOTAL
Very important	48.8%	60.8%	52.4%	56.0%	59.1%	55.1%
Somewhat important	33.1%	18.2%	25.7%	24.7%	19.4%	24.4%
Not too important	13.4%	13.3%	11.8%	11.3%	10.8%	12.1%
Not at all important	4.7%	7.0%	8.0%	8.0%	8.6%	7.3%
Don't know	0.0%	0.7%	2.1%	0.0%	2.2%	1.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1000

Education (I-EDUC)

	Incomplete primary	Complt. primary OR Incomp. secondary. (inc. voc/tech)	Complt. sec.school: tech./voc. Type	Incompl. or complt. secondary: prep. for univ.	Some univ. level, with or without a diploma	TOTAL
Very important	57.4%	58.3%	48.7%	61.6%	42.7%	55.1%
Somewhat important	20.8%	25.2%	27.4%	24.8%	30.5%	24.4%
Not too important	13.2%	9.6%	15.0%	6.4%	17.1%	12.1%
Not at all important	7.5%	6.1%	7.1%	7.2%	8.5%	7.3%
Don't know	1.1%	0.9%	1.8%	0.0%	1.2%	1.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1000

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	57.7%	52.6%	55.1%
Somewhat important	22.3%	26.6%	24.4%
Not too important	11.4%	12.9%	12.1%
Not at all important	7.4%	7.1%	7.3%
Don't know	1.1%	0.9%	1.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	1000

Household income (I-INCOME)

	LT 400 reals per month	401 to 600 reals/ mon.	601 to 1,000 reals/ mon.	1,001 to 1,400 reals/ mon.	MT 1,401 reals/ mon.	TOTAL
Very important	58.9%	53.8%	57.4%	62.2%	50.8%	56.3%
Somewhat important	21.2%	26.6%	25.6%	26.8%	25.0%	24.8%
Not too important	13.0%	12.6%	10.1%	3.7%	13.3%	11.1%
Not at all important	6.2%	6.3%	7.0%	6.1%	9.2%	6.9%
Don't know	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	1.2%	1.7%	0.8%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	863

Race (I-RACE)

	Branco	Pardo/mulato	Negro	Amarelo/mestico	Indigena	TOTAL
Very important	53.8%	51.7%	64.2%	62.1%	100.0%	55.1%
Somewhat important	28.2%	25.4%	13.7%	10.3%	0.0%	24.4%
Not too important	10.0%	13.8%	14.7%	17.2%	0.0%	12.1%
Not at all important	7.1%	7.8%	7.4%	6.9%	0.0%	7.3%
Don't know	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	3.4%	0.0%	1.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1000

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Single most important thing	Very important	Somewhat important	Not too important	Not at all important	TOTAL
Very important	52.8%	60.6%	48.9%	41.0%	43.3%	55.2%
Somewhat important	24.5%	22.0%	27.0%	33.3%	30.0%	24.4%
Not too important	12.3%	11.3%	14.2%	12.8%	10.0%	12.1%
Not at all important	7.5%	5.2%	9.9%	12.8%	13.3%	7.3%
Don't know	2.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	3.3%	1.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	997