Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Nigeria

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HEALTH (Percentages are weighted by GPWGT; Total Ns reported are unweighted) [Question asked if respondent belongs to a particular religion or believes in God.] Now I am going to read you a series of statements on some different topics. For each one, please tell me if you completely agree with it, mostly agree with it, mostly disagree with it, or completely disagree with it. God will grant health and relief from sickness to believers who have enough faith.   1) Completely agree   2) Mostly agree   3) Mostly disagree   4) Completely disagree   98) Don't know   99) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Completely agree	79.8%	79.8%
Mostly agree	16.6%	96.4%
Mostly disagree	2.0%	98.4%
Completely disagree	1.4%	99.8%
Don't know	.2%	100.0%
Refused	.0%	100.0%
Total N = 999

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Race/Ethnicity Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18 - 24	25 - 29	30 - 39	40 - 49	50 or more	TOTAL
Completely agree	81.8%	77.7%	84.2%	76.8%	71.6%	79.6%
Mostly agree	14.9%	15.1%	14.6%	18.9%	24.3%	16.5%
Mostly disagree	2.2%	1.4%	1.3%	3.2%	4.1%	2.2%
Completely disagree	1.1%	5.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	1.5%
Don't know	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	991

Education (I-EDUC)

	Incomplete primary	Comp primary OR incom secondary (tech/voc.)	Comp secondary: tech./voc.	Incom or com secondary: univ-prep	College of educ or incom/com polythenic	Some university-level educ or more	TOTAL
Completely agree	76.0%	86.3%	72.1%	88.1%	77.5%	83.3%	79.7%
Mostly agree	22.9%	11.5%	23.5%	8.3%	16.9%	12.2%	16.7%
Mostly disagree	1.0%	0.8%	2.8%	2.4%	4.2%	1.1%	2.0%
Completely disagree	0.0%	1.5%	1.1%	1.2%	1.4%	3.3%	1.4%
Don't know	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	997

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Completely agree	80.1%	79.2%	79.7%
Mostly agree	16.6%	17.0%	16.8%
Mostly disagree	2.7%	1.3%	2.0%
Completely disagree	0.6%	2.2%	1.4%
Don't know	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	999

Household income (I-INCOME)

	50,000 naira per year or less	50,001 to 150,000 naira per year	150,001 naira per year or more	TOTAL
Completely agree	77.6%	78.7%	83.6%	79.9%
Mostly agree	17.8%	20.2%	14.2%	17.2%
Mostly disagree	2.3%	1.1%	2.2%	2.0%
Completely disagree	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
Don't know	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	633

Race/Ethnicity (I-ETHNIC)

	Hausa	Ibo	Yoruba	All others	TOTAL
Completely agree	82.0%	74.6%	77.7%	82.9%	79.9%
Mostly agree	16.3%	20.3%	14.9%	15.2%	16.5%
Mostly disagree	0.6%	3.6%	4.1%	1.0%	2.0%
Completely disagree	0.6%	1.4%	3.3%	1.0%	1.4%
Don't know	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	996

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Single most important thing	Very important	SW imp., Not too imp., or Not at all imp.	TOTAL
Completely agree	79.0%	80.5%	64.7%	79.5%
Mostly agree	18.9%	14.9%	29.4%	16.8%
Mostly disagree	1.7%	2.0%	5.9%	2.0%
Completely disagree	0.4%	2.3%	0.0%	1.5%
Don't know	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	999