Spirit and Power: Survey of Pentecostals in the United States

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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

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Category	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage
Single most important thing	16.9%	16.9%
Very important	44.2%	61.1%
Somewhat important	22.6%	83.7%
Not too important	7.7%	91.4%
Not at all important	8.0%	99.4%
Don't know	.4%	99.8%
Refused	.1%	99.9%
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
Single most important thing	9.9%	13.6%	18.4%	19.7%	15.9%	18.3%	16.7%
Very important	40.7%	39.0%	28.7%	40.8%	52.4%	57.9%	44.3%
Somewhat important	29.7%	28.8%	28.7%	24.5%	15.1%	15.2%	22.5%
Not too important	9.9%	8.5%	11.0%	8.2%	6.3%	4.3%	7.7%
Not at all important	9.9%	8.5%	13.2%	6.1%	9.5%	3.7%	8.2%
Don't know	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
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
Single most important thing	25.5%	14.7%	23.9%	16.0%	18.5%	9.1%	17.1%
Very important	48.1%	51.8%	39.1%	39.6%	39.5%	37.7%	44.2%
Somewhat important	17.0%	25.2%	17.4%	21.3%	17.6%	33.8%	22.3%
Not too important	3.8%	5.5%	6.5%	12.4%	7.6%	10.4%	7.8%
Not at all important	5.7%	2.3%	10.9%	10.7%	15.1%	9.1%	8.0%
Don't know	0.0%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
TOTAL	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	1064

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Single most important thing	18.1%	15.9%	16.9%
Very important	33.6%	54.2%	44.3%
Somewhat important	26.8%	18.5%	22.5%
Not too important	10.2%	5.5%	7.7%
Not at all important	11.0%	5.2%	8.0%
Don't know	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%
Refused	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
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
Single most important thing	17.2%	23.4%	17.3%	11.2%	11.0%	15.3%	16.1%
Very important	43.3%	45.5%	47.5%	38.8%	35.6%	34.1%	41.7%
Somewhat important	27.4%	18.2%	20.9%	30.6%	24.7%	20.0%	24.0%
Not too important	7.0%	5.2%	7.9%	8.2%	13.7%	11.8%	8.6%
Not at all important	4.5%	6.5%	6.5%	10.2%	15.1%	17.6%	9.1%
Don't know	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
Refused	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%
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
Single most important thing	16.7%	27.8%	14.3%	10.7%	11.2%	17.0%
Very important	44.1%	46.8%	0.0%	28.6%	51.7%	44.3%
Somewhat important	21.4%	20.3%	57.1%	21.4%	28.1%	22.4%
Not too important	8.5%	2.5%	28.6%	10.7%	5.6%	7.8%
Not at all important	8.9%	2.5%	0.0%	28.6%	2.2%	8.1%
Don't know	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.3%
Refused	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
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
Single most important thing	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	17.0%
Very important	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	44.5%
Somewhat important	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	22.7%
Not too important	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	7.8%
Not at all important	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	8.0%
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%	1068