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Felt called by God to do something - Belief Statistics Topic

Q26d. Please indicate whether or not you have ever had any of the following experiences: I felt called by God to do something (FELTCALL)
Results weighted by WEIGHT (Baylor Religion Survey, Wave II (2007) - Instructional Dataset)


Felt called by God to do something by Age

 18-2930-3940-4950-5960-6970+MissingTotal
Yes45.8%
120
46.2%
147
45.3%
154
45.8%
141
42.6%
87
37.3%
66
044.4%
715
No54.2%
142
53.8%
171
54.7%
186
54.2%
167
57.4%
117
62.7%
111
055.6%
894
Missing10242918450
Total 100%
262
100%
318
100%
340
100%
308
100%
204
100%
177
   
1609

Felt called by God to do something by Education

 No high school diplomaHigh school graduateSome collegeTrade/technical/vocational trainingCollege graduatePostgraduate work/degreeMissingTotal
Yes43.8%
53
41.0%
185
47.9%
207
45.7%
75
42.3%
90
47.5%
95
1244.6%
705
No56.2%
68
59.0%
266
52.1%
225
54.3%
89
57.7%
123
52.5%
105
1755.4%
876
Missing7118454746
Total 100%
121
100%
451
100%
432
100%
164
100%
213
100%
200
   
1581

Felt called by God to do something by Gender

 MaleFemaleMissingTotal
Yes39.6%
300
48.6%
414
044.4%
714
No60.4%
457
51.4%
437
055.6%
894
Missing2124450
Total 100%
757
100%
851
   
1608

Felt called by God to do something by Region

 EastMid-WestSouthWestMissingTotal
Yes36.0%
126
44.4%
166
53.8%
282
39.2%
141
044.5%
715
No64.0%
224
55.6%
208
46.2%
242
60.8%
219
055.5%
893
Missing8121114450
Total 100%
350
100%
374
100%
524
100%
360
   
1608

Felt called by God to do something by Religion

 Evangelical ProtestantBlack ProtestantMainline ProtestantCatholicOtherNoneMissingTotal
Yes63.8%
332
82.9%
63
42.4%
134
33.9%
115
35.2%
44
5.0%
9
1244.8%
697
No36.2%
188
17.1%
13
57.6%
182
66.1%
224
64.8%
81
95.0%
170
3555.2%
858
Missing91141341923
Total 100%
520
100%
76
100%
316
100%
339
100%
125
100%
179
   
1555

Felt called by God to do something by Worship attendance

 Less than once a yearOnce or twice a yearSeveral times a year1-3 times a monthAbout weeklyWeekly or moreMissingTotal
Yes11.3%
56
27.6%
45
46.1%
77
54.0%
101
68.7%
68
75.2%
358
744.4%
705
No88.7%
439
72.4%
118
53.9%
90
46.0%
86
31.3%
31
24.8%
118
1655.6%
882
Missing6684118682
Total 100%
495
100%
163
100%
167
100%
187
100%
99
100%
476
   
1587

Notes

This file contains all of the cases and variables that are in the original 2007 Baylor Religion Survey, but is prepared for easier use in the classroom. Changes have been made in two areas. First, to avoid confusion when constructing tables or interpreting basic analysis, all missing data codes have been set to system missing. Second, many of the continuous variables have been categorized into fewer categories, and added as additional variables to the file.

The Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion (ISR) received a major three-year grant from the John M. Templeton Foundation, to conduct a nationally representative multi-year study of religious values, practices, and behaviors, with a specific focus on consumption of religious goods and services. Using a host of new survey items that improve upon previous work, the study will yield new data to more systematically explore and better understand what sometimes appears to be an ambiguous relationship between trust, civic engagement, and religion. In partnering with the Gallup Organization, we believe this cutting-edge study has the potential to generate data that may well cause scholars to rethink our currently used measures of religious commitment or devoutness, as well as various theories linking the influence of religion to civic engagement, spiritual capital, and many other important social and behavioral outcomes.

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