How do Democrats and Republicans feel about Evangelical Christian?
Variables:
- PartyRegistration, partyreg_baseline (Democrats and Republicans)
- pew_bornagain_2018
- pew_religimp_2018
- pew_prayer_2018
- ft_evang_2017
Would Democrats and Republicans describe themselves as “born-again” or evangelical christian, or not?
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## No Yes
## Democrat 0.8020833 0.1979167
## Republican 0.6748330 0.3251670- According to the data, republicans are more likely to describe themselves as evangelical christian and democrats are less likely to describe themselves as evangelical christian.
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## Pearson's Chi-squared test with Yates' continuity correction
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## data: voter$PartyRegistration and voter$pew_bornagain
## X-squared = 40.553, df = 1, p-value = 1.914e-10- Chi-squared test data indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between political parties and their religious beliefs in receiving salvation.
## $expected
## voter$pew_bornagain
## voter$PartyRegistration No Yes
## Democrat 785.2446 270.7554
## Republican 667.7554 230.2446- If there was no relationship between political party and a person feelings about evangelical christian, then we would expect to see these values from democrats and republicans.
## $observed
## voter$pew_bornagain
## voter$PartyRegistration No Yes
## Democrat 847 209
## Republican 606 292- Chi-squared test data indicates that there is a relationship between political parties and evangelical christian.
| Democrat | Republican | |
|---|---|---|
| No | 0.8 | 0.67 |
| Yes | 0.2 | 0.33 |
- According to the table, democrats are less likely to describe themselves as evangelical christian and republicans are more likely to describe themselves as evangelical christian.
- According to the bar graph, it reveals that democrats are less likely to decribe themselves as evangelical christian and republicans are more likely to describe themselves as evangelical christian.
How important do democrats and republicans feel about their religion?
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## Not at all important Not too important Somewhat important
## Democrat 0.2992424 0.1458333 0.2329545
## Republican 0.1247216 0.1224944 0.2538976
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## Very important
## Democrat 0.3219697
## Republican 0.4988864- According to the data, Republicans feel more important about their religion than Democrats.
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## Pearson's Chi-squared test
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## data: voter$PartyRegistration and voter$pew_religimp
## X-squared = 107.98, df = 3, p-value < 2.2e-16- Chi-squared test data indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between political parties and how important democrats and republicans feel about their religion.
## $expected
## voter$pew_religimp
## voter$PartyRegistration Not at all important Not too important
## Democrat 231.304 142.6735
## Republican 196.696 121.3265
## voter$pew_religimp
## voter$PartyRegistration Somewhat important Very important
## Democrat 256.1638 425.8588
## Republican 217.8362 362.1412- If there was no relationship between political party and how important democrats and republicans feel about their religion, then we would expect to see these values from democrats and republicans.
## $observed
## voter$pew_religimp
## voter$PartyRegistration Not at all important Not too important
## Democrat 316 154
## Republican 112 110
## voter$pew_religimp
## voter$PartyRegistration Somewhat important Very important
## Democrat 246 340
## Republican 228 448- Chi-squared test data indicates that there is a relationship between political parties and how important democrats and republicans feel about their religion.
| Democrat | Republican | |
|---|---|---|
| Not at all important | 0.30 | 0.12 |
| Not too important | 0.15 | 0.12 |
| Somewhat important | 0.23 | 0.25 |
| Very important | 0.32 | 0.50 |
- According to the table, democrats feel less important about their religion than republicans.
- According to the bar graph, it reveals that republicans feel more important about their religion than democrats.
How often do democrats and republicans pray?
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## A few times a month A few times a week Never Once a day
## Democrat 0.04941860 0.11240310 0.25678295 0.14825581
## Republican 0.04328018 0.12756264 0.10933941 0.18792711
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## Once a week Seldom Several times a day
## Democrat 0.02131783 0.14341085 0.26841085
## Republican 0.01594533 0.13439636 0.38154897- According to the data, republicans pray more than democrats.
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## Pearson's Chi-squared test
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## data: voter$PartyRegistration and voter$pew_prayer
## X-squared = 80.301, df = 6, p-value = 3.096e-15- Chi-squared test data indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between political parties and how offen democrats and republicans pray.
## $expected
## voter$pew_prayer
## voter$PartyRegistration A few times a month A few times a week Never
## Democrat 48.08796 123.1916 195.0534
## Republican 40.91204 104.8084 165.9466
## voter$pew_prayer
## voter$PartyRegistration Once a day Once a week Seldom
## Democrat 171.8199 19.45131 143.7236
## Republican 146.1801 16.54869 122.2764
## voter$pew_prayer
## voter$PartyRegistration Several times a day
## Democrat 330.6723
## Republican 281.3277- If there was no relationship between political party and how offen democrats and republicans pray, then we would expect to see these values from democrats and republicans.
## $observed
## voter$pew_prayer
## voter$PartyRegistration A few times a month A few times a week Never
## Democrat 51 116 265
## Republican 38 112 96
## voter$pew_prayer
## voter$PartyRegistration Once a day Once a week Seldom Several times a day
## Democrat 153 22 148 277
## Republican 165 14 118 335- Chi-squared test data indicates that there is a relationship between political parties and how often democrats and republican pray.
| Democrat | Republican | |
|---|---|---|
| A few times a month | 0.05 | 0.04 |
| A few times a week | 0.11 | 0.13 |
| Never | 0.26 | 0.11 |
| Once a day | 0.15 | 0.19 |
| Once a week | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Seldom | 0.14 | 0.13 |
| Several times a day | 0.27 | 0.38 |
- According to the table, overall, democrats pray less than republians.
- According to the bar graph, it reveals that republicans pray more than demoocrats.
- The sampling distribution demonstrates democrats in their mean feelings towards evangelical christian.
- The sampling distribution demonstrates republicans in their mean feelings towards evangelical christian.
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## Welch Two Sample t-test
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## data: ft_evang_2017 by PartyRegistration
## t = -22.732, df = 2348.2, p-value < 2.2e-16
## alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
## 95 percent confidence interval:
## -31.17332 -26.22206
## sample estimates:
## mean in group Democrat mean in group Republican
## 41.65409 70.35179- T-test data indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between democrats and republicans in their means feelings towards evangelical christian. Republicans have a higher mean than democrats.
Conclusions:
There are significant results regarding political parties and how democrats and republicans feel about evangelical christian.
Republicans are more likely to describe themselves as evangelical christian.
Republicans feel more important about their religion.
Republicans pray more than democrats.