Results of Occupation and Religion Poll
In TVia #12 there was an auxilliary questionnaire which a good! many were good enough to fill out and return. Report was not made on this sooner partly because of space and partly to allow time for more returns to come in. Below are the results on 100 responses.
RELIGION :
Misc. Protestant denominations 12%
Catholic
33%
"Protestant" 12
Unitarian
Methodist
12
Jewish
Lutheran
11
Episcopalian
5
Atheist & Agnostic Others
4
2
4
AGE:
EDUCATION:
21--30 25
Not High School Grads
8%
Post Grad. Work 14%
31--40 37
High School
31
Incld'g. M. A.
7
41--50 23
Junior College
12
Ph.D. degree
2
51--60 12
College
23
Unstated
11
61--up
3
OCCUPATION:
Professional
Business
30% Architects, Ministers, Chemists, Engineers, Lawyers, Editors, Teachers, Airline Pilots, Doctors.
14
Skilled labor 19
Unskilled
#
31
Arts
6
Contractor, Insurance Sales, Bus. Owners, Travel Agent, Advertising, Manager. Plumber, Draftsman, Electrician, Machinist, Bookkeeper.
Repairman, Clerk, Sales, Farmer, Postman, Radio Announcer, Student, Truck Driver, Laborer
Musician, Librarian, Artist, Social Work, Writer.
SIGNIFICANCE OF RESULTS: 100 cases is not enough to prove anything conclusively, but several interesting things do turn up. Most in- teresting is the fact that the U.S. Census shows 28% Catholics and 3.6% Jews in the population. These results indicate slightly more Catholic TVs and slightly fewer Jewish than in the population at large. Is there a good reason for this? Personally I think that
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