Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Brazil

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RELIMP (Percentages are weighted by GPWGT; Total Ns reported are unweighted) Thinking now about religion, how important is religion in your life? Is it the single most important thing, very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important? [This question was asked in all countries.]   1) Single most important thing   2) Very important   3) Somewhat important   4) Not too important   5) Not at all important   8) Don't know   9) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Single most important thing	15.1%	15.1%
Very important	54.4%	69.5%
Somewhat important	20.1%	89.6%
Not too important	5.6%	95.2%
Not at all important	4.3%	99.5%
Don't know	.4%	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
Single most important thing	10.2%	11.9%	15.0%	18.7%	21.5%	15.1%
Very important	46.5%	58.7%	55.1%	52.0%	61.3%	54.4%
Somewhat important	27.6%	22.4%	17.1%	20.0%	12.9%	20.1%
Not too important	7.9%	5.6%	5.9%	5.3%	2.2%	5.6%
Not at all important	6.3%	1.4%	6.4%	4.0%	2.2%	4.3%
Don't know	1.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
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
Single most important thing	11.3%	18.3%	16.8%	20.0%	13.4%	15.1%
Very important	60.4%	53.9%	57.5%	52.8%	34.1%	54.4%
Somewhat important	17.0%	18.3%	16.8%	19.2%	39.0%	20.1%
Not too important	5.3%	4.3%	7.1%	4.8%	7.3%	5.6%
Not at all important	5.7%	3.5%	1.8%	3.2%	6.1%	4.3%
Don't know	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
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
Single most important thing	11.7%	18.6%	15.1%
Very important	52.3%	56.6%	54.4%
Somewhat important	22.6%	17.7%	20.1%
Not too important	8.0%	3.1%	5.6%
Not at all important	5.1%	3.4%	4.3%
Don't know	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%
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
Single most important thing	13.7%	14.0%	13.2%	13.4%	20.0%	14.8%
Very important	61.0%	51.7%	56.6%	62.2%	45.0%	55.0%
Somewhat important	13.0%	21.7%	21.7%	18.3%	25.0%	19.8%
Not too important	7.5%	7.0%	3.9%	2.4%	5.8%	5.6%
Not at all important	4.1%	4.9%	3.9%	3.7%	4.2%	4.2%
Don't know	0.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
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
Single most important thing	13.5%	13.8%	20.0%	27.6%	25.0%	15.1%
Very important	52.6%	56.5%	61.1%	41.4%	25.0%	54.4%
Somewhat important	22.1%	21.1%	10.5%	20.7%	25.0%	20.1%
Not too important	5.3%	6.0%	5.3%	3.4%	25.0%	5.6%
Not at all important	5.9%	2.6%	2.1%	6.9%	0.0%	4.3%
Don't know	0.6%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
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
Single most important thing	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	15.2%
Very important	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	54.7%
Somewhat important	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	20.2%
Not too important	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	5.6%
Not at all important	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	4.3%
Don't know	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
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