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Protected from harm by a guardian angel - Belief Statistics Topic

Q26g. Please indicate whether or not you have ever had any of the following experiences: I was protected from harm by a guardian angel (GUARDIAN)
Results weighted by WEIGHT (Baylor Religion Survey, Wave II (2007) - Instructional Dataset)


Protected from harm by a guardian angel by Age

 18-2930-3940-4950-5960-6970+TotalMissing
Yes48.2%
123
56.0%
178
57.8%
196
57.2%
174
56.0%
112
53.1%
95
55.0%
878
0
No51.8%
132
44.0%
140
42.2%
143
42.8%
130
44.0%
88
46.9%
84
45.0%
717
0
Missing142571215550
Total 100%
255
100%
318
100%
339
100%
304
100%
200
100%
179
 
1595

Protected from harm by a guardian angel by Education

 No high school diplomaHigh school graduateSome collegeTrade/technical/vocational trainingCollege graduatePostgraduate work/degreeTotalMissing
Yes63.3%
76
58.7%
262
55.0%
237
55.0%
88
54.0%
115
44.4%
88
55.2%
866
11
No36.7%
44
41.3%
184
45.0%
194
45.0%
72
46.0%
98
55.6%
110
44.8%
702
17
Missing6139686837
Total 100%
120
100%
446
100%
431
100%
160
100%
213
100%
198
 
1568

Protected from harm by a guardian angel by Gender

 MaleFemaleTotalMissing
Yes49.6%
369
59.9%
509
55.1%
878
0
No50.4%
375
40.1%
341
44.9%
716
0
Missing3025550
Total 100%
744
100%
850
 
1594

Protected from harm by a guardian angel by Region

 EastMid-WestSouthWestTotalMissing
Yes46.7%
162
58.8%
220
60.7%
312
51.1%
183
55.1%
877
0
No53.3%
185
41.2%
154
39.3%
202
48.9%
175
44.9%
716
0
Missing9121816550
Total 100%
347
100%
374
100%
514
100%
358
 
1593

Protected from harm by a guardian angel by Religion

 Evangelical ProtestantBlack ProtestantMainline ProtestantCatholicOtherNoneTotalMissing
Yes66.0%
339
85.1%
63
54.5%
170
56.0%
191
42.3%
52
20.3%
36
55.2%
851
24
No34.0%
175
14.9%
11
45.5%
142
44.0%
150
57.7%
71
79.7%
141
44.8%
690
23
Missing1331711531023
Total 100%
514
100%
74
100%
312
100%
341
100%
123
100%
177
 
1541

Protected from harm by a guardian angel by Worship attendance

 Less than once a yearOnce or twice a yearSeveral times a year1-3 times a monthAbout weeklyWeekly or moreTotalMissing
Yes32.9%
162
44.8%
73
60.4%
99
64.7%
119
74.5%
73
72.5%
340
55.1%
866
11
No67.1%
331
55.2%
90
39.6%
65
35.3%
65
25.5%
25
27.5%
129
44.9%
705
12
Missing76115321782
Total 100%
493
100%
163
100%
164
100%
184
100%
98
100%
469
 
1571

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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