Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in Nigeria

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FREEDOM4 (Percentages are weighted by GPWGT; Total Ns reported are unweighted) Here is a list of things that you can and cannot do in some countries. How important is it to you to live in a country where you can practice your religion freely? Is it very important, somewhat important, not too important or not important at all?   1) Very important   2) Somewhat important   3) Not too important   4) Not important at all   8) Don't know   9) Refused

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	89.6%	89.6%
Somewhat important	9.5%	99.1%
Not too important	.6%	99.7%
Not important at all	.0%	99.7%
Don't know	.3%	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
Very important	92.8%	88.5%	91.2%	87.5%	83.6%	89.6%
Somewhat important	6.7%	10.1%	8.2%	11.5%	15.1%	9.4%
Not too important	0.0%	1.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%
Not important at all	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Don't know	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.3%
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
Very important	92.7%	87.8%	88.8%	91.7%	91.5%	86.7%	89.6%
Somewhat important	7.3%	10.7%	10.1%	6.0%	8.5%	13.3%	9.5%
Not too important	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
Not important at all	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Don't know	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
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
Very important	87.7%	91.5%	89.6%
Somewhat important	11.4%	7.5%	9.5%
Not too important	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%
Not important at all	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Don't know	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
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
Very important	94.9%	89.4%	88.8%	91.6%
Somewhat important	4.6%	8.5%	11.2%	7.7%
Not too important	0.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.7%
Not important at all	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
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
Very important	93.9%	84.1%	91.7%	88.1%	89.5%
Somewhat important	6.1%	14.5%	8.3%	10.0%	9.6%
Not too important	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.6%
Not important at all	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Don't know	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
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
Very important	93.2%	88.1%	76.5%	89.7%
Somewhat important	5.9%	11.1%	17.6%	9.4%
Not too important	0.0%	0.8%	5.9%	0.6%
Not important at all	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Don't know	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	999