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Religious Identity and Influence Survey, 1996

Data Archive > U.S. Surveys > General Population > Local/Regional > Others > Analysis

XIANLAWS

Do you think that Christian morality should be the law of the land, even though not all Americans are Christians, or not?

	1) Yes
	2) No
	3) DK
	4) Refused

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Yes	1048	40.5%	40.5%	-1.02
No	1315	50.8%	91.2%	.42
DK	162	6.3%	97.5%	1.86
Refused	65	2.5%	100%	3.3

Variable Comparisons

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	Other	TOTAL
Yes	39.8% 843	45.9% 133	45.7% 32	61.1% 11	31.5% 29	40.5% 1048
No	51.2% 1086	46.2% 134	48.6% 34	38.9% 7	58.7% 54	50.8% 1315
DK	6.7% 142	4.5% 13	2.9% 2	0.0% 0	5.4% 5	6.3% 162
Refused	2.3% 49	3.4% 10	2.9% 2	0.0% 0	4.3% 4	2.5% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 2120	100.0% 290	100.0% 70	100.0% 18	100.0% 92	2590

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less HS	HS Grad	Some College	College Grad	Post Grad	TOTAL
Yes	52.7% 117	47.5% 326	40.0% 339	32.6% 161	30.4% 99	40.4% 1042
No	34.2% 76	43.7% 300	52.0% 441	58.5% 289	62.9% 205	50.9% 1311
DK	10.8% 24	6.4% 44	5.8% 49	5.5% 27	5.5% 18	6.3% 162
Refused	2.3% 5	2.5% 17	2.2% 19	3.4% 17	1.2% 4	2.4% 62
TOTAL	100.0% 222	100.0% 687	100.0% 848	100.0% 494	100.0% 326	2577

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Yes	37.6% 347	42.0% 701	40.5% 1048
No	55.7% 514	48.0% 801	50.8% 1315
DK	5.1% 47	6.9% 115	6.3% 162
Refused	1.5% 14	3.1% 51	2.5% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 922	100.0% 1668	2590

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Not Religious	Other	TOTAL
Yes	42.7% 802	17.5% 31	0.0% 0	9.3% 10	49.5% 202	40.4% 1045
No	48.2% 906	74.6% 132	100.0% 14	84.1% 90	42.2% 172	50.8% 1314
DK	6.3% 118	6.2% 11	0.0% 0	6.5% 7	6.1% 25	6.2% 161
Refused	2.8% 53	1.7% 3	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	2.2% 9	2.5% 65
TOTAL	100.0% 1879	100.0% 177	100.0% 14	100.0% 107	100.0% 408	2585