Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in the United States

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ECONPAR (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. Are people's parent's economic situations very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not at all important factors 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

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Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Very important	35.9%	35.9%
Somewhat important	44.5%	80.4%
Not too important	8.4%	88.8%
Not at all important	5.1%	93.9%
Don't know	5.3%	99.2%
Refused	.8%	100.0%
Total N = 1074

Variable Comparisons

Age Education Gender Household income Race Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18 - 24	25 - 29	30 - 39	40 - 49	50 - 59	60 +	TOTAL
Very important	30.8%	37.9%	36.8%	36.2%	31.7%	41.6%	36.2%
Somewhat important	46.2%	48.3%	52.2%	40.3%	53.2%	34.3%	44.8%
Not too important	15.4%	3.4%	4.4%	13.4%	7.9%	4.8%	8.3%
Not at all important	6.6%	3.4%	4.4%	4.7%	1.6%	7.8%	5.0%
Don't know	1.1%	6.9%	2.2%	5.4%	4.0%	9.0%	5.0%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%	2.4%	0.8%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1044

Education (I-EDUC)

	Did not complete high school	High school graduate	Tech./voc. school after HS	Some college or assoc. degree	College graduate	Post-graduate	TOTAL
Very important	52.8%	35.5%	30.4%	32.1%	29.8%	36.8%	36.1%
Somewhat important	27.4%	44.7%	43.5%	46.4%	53.7%	48.7%	44.4%
Not too important	0.9%	6.5%	10.9%	11.3%	12.4%	10.5%	8.4%
Not at all important	6.6%	5.1%	10.9%	6.0%	2.5%	1.3%	5.0%
Don't know	10.4%	7.8%	4.3%	3.6%	0.8%	1.3%	5.2%
Refused	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.8%	1.3%	0.8%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1064

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very important	36.6%	35.3%	35.9%
Somewhat important	43.7%	45.2%	44.5%
Not too important	7.9%	8.8%	8.4%
Not at all important	5.4%	4.9%	5.1%
Don't know	5.6%	4.9%	5.3%
Refused	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	1074

Household income (I-INCOME)

	Less than $20,000	$20- to under $30,000	$30- to under $50,000	$50- to under $75,000	$75- to under $100,000	$100,000 or more	TOTAL
Very important	44.9%	48.1%	29.1%	35.7%	29.2%	25.3%	35.8%
Somewhat important	30.8%	41.6%	50.4%	43.9%	56.9%	56.3%	45.0%
Not too important	7.1%	5.2%	7.8%	13.3%	9.7%	10.3%	8.7%
Not at all important	7.7%	1.3%	5.7%	2.0%	4.2%	5.7%	4.9%
Don't know	8.3%	3.9%	6.4%	5.1%	0.0%	1.1%	4.9%
Refused	1.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.6%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	907

Race (I-RACE)

	White (not Hispanic)	Black (not Hispanic)	Asian (not Hispanic)	Other or mixed race (not Hispanic)	Hispanic (any mention)	TOTAL
Very important	30.5%	51.3%	42.9%	44.8%	53.9%	36.3%
Somewhat important	48.5%	33.3%	57.1%	37.9%	32.6%	44.6%
Not too important	8.9%	6.4%	0.0%	13.8%	3.4%	8.1%
Not at all important	5.1%	6.4%	0.0%	3.4%	4.5%	5.1%
Don't know	6.1%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	5.6%	5.3%
Refused	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1063

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Single most important thing	Very important	Somewhat important	Not too important	Not at all important	TOTAL
Very important	39.7%	38.2%	29.3%	36.8%	35.6%	36.1%
Somewhat important	35.7%	43.1%	53.9%	49.1%	40.7%	44.6%
Not too important	9.5%	8.3%	6.6%	7.0%	11.9%	8.3%
Not at all important	7.1%	3.7%	6.0%	3.5%	6.8%	5.0%
Don't know	7.9%	6.1%	3.6%	3.5%	0.0%	5.2%
Refused	0.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	5.1%	0.8%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1068