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TableĀ 2 Profile of faculty and students from public secular, private secular, and religious institutions who participated in the study

From: New England Faculty and College Students Differ in Their Views About Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Religiosity

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Faculty

Students

Public secular

Private secular

Religious

Grand total

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%a

Total

244

27.5a

161

18.1a

298

33.6a

185

20.8a

888

100a

Females

90

36.9b

96

59.6b

185

62.1b

111

60.0b

482

54.3a

Males

154

63.1b

65

40.4b

113

37.9b

74

40.0b

406

45.7a

PhD degree

220

90.2b

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

220

24.8a

Doctorate degree

7

2.9b

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

7

0.8a

Masters degree

17

6.9b

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

17

1.9a

Freshman

NA

NA

49

30.4b

79

26.5b

44

23.8b

172

19.4a

Sophomore

NA

NA

46

28.6b

67

22.5b

42

22.7b

155

17.4a

Junior

NA

NA

28

17.4b

70

23.5b

50

27.0b

148

16.7a

Senior

NA

NA

38

23.6b

82

27.5b

49

26.5b

169

19.0a

New England

104

42.6b, c

146

90.7b, g

223

74.8b, k

124

67.0b, o

597

67.2a

East Coast

43

17.6b, d

6

3.7b, h

57

19.1b, l

38

20.5b, p

144

16.2a

Other states

67

27.5b, e

4

2.5b, i

10

3.4b, m

16

8.7b, q

97

10.9a

Foreign countries

30

12.3b, f

5

3.1b, j

8

2.7b, n

7

3.8b, r

50

5.7a

  1. aPercentages in respect to grand total number of participants or ā€œrespondersā€ to the survey(nā€‰=ā€‰888), which is a fraction of the number of faculty (nā€‰=ā€‰992) plus students (publicā€‰=ā€‰7,982; privateā€‰=ā€‰3,806; and religiousā€‰=ā€‰3,910) contacted via email and asked to take part in the study
  2. bPercentages in respect to total number of participants per group of faculty or college students from public secular, private secular or religious institutions
  3. cNew England faculty natives correspond to MA, 13.7%; CT, 6.8%; VT, 6.8%; ME, 5.9%; NH, 4.9%; and RI, 4.5%
  4. dEast Coast faculty natives correspond to NY, 9.6%; PA, 4.4%; NJ, 2.4%; and MD and VA, ā‰ˆ1.2%
  5. eOther states faculty natives correspond to CA, 7.3%; MI, 3.6%; CO and TX, 2.5%; IL, 2.0%; OH, 1.6%; and 17 other states plus Puerto Rico, 10.5%
  6. fForeign countries faculty correspond to 15 nationalities (Europe and UK, 7.6%; Canada, 2.4%; and Australia, China, Libya, and Brazil, 2.3%)
  7. gNew England students at public secular institution were natives from MA, 86.9%; RI, 2.8%; and CT, <1%
  8. hEast Coast students at public secular institution were natives from NY, 2.7%; NJ and VA, <1%
  9. iOther states students at public secular institution were natives from four states AZ, FL, MI, and TX, 2.5%
  10. jForeign countries students at public secular institution correspond to four nationalities (Cape Verde, Cameroon, Philippines, and Brazil, 3.1%)
  11. kNew England students at private secular institution were natives from MA, 29.1%; CT, 19.4%; RI, 15.5%; NH, 6.6%; VT, 2.8; ME, 1.4%
  12. iEast Coast students at private secular institution were natives from NY, 9.7%; NJ, 5.1%; PA, 2.2%; MD, 1.1%; VA, <1%
  13. mOther states students at private secular institution were natives from nine states CA, CO, GA, IL, IN, KT, MI, TN, and WA, 3.4%
  14. nForeign countries students at private secular institution correspond to eight nationalities (France, Ghana, India, Korea, Lebanon, Peru, Romania, and UK, 2.7%)
  15. oNew England students at religious institution were natives from MA, 37.2%; CT, 11.2%; RI, 14.1%; NH, 2.0%; ME, 1.5%; VT, <1%
  16. pEast Coast students at religious institution were natives from NY, 10.2%; NJ, 6.8%; PA, 2.5%; DE and VA, 1.0%
  17. qOther states students at religious institution were natives from 11 states CA, FL, IL, IN, MN, MO, OH, OR, SC, TN, and TX, 8.7%
  18. rForeign countries students at religious institution correspond to seven nationalities (Bosnia, Canada, Ghana, Korea, Latvia, Portugal, and Zimbabwe, 3.8%)