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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