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The full analysis
?Perhaps the greatest disparity,Miu Miu Purses, however, is between the percentage of U.S. adults and the percentage of members of Congress who do not identify with any particular religion,Miu Miu Purses. About one-in-five U.S. adults describe themselves as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular" – a group sometimes collectively called the "nones,Miu Miu Bags." But only one member of the new Congress,Miu Miu Online, Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), is religiously unaffiliated, according to information gathered by CQ Roll Call. Sinema is the first member of Congress to publicly describe her religion as "none," though 10 other members of the 113th Congress (about 2%) do not specify a religious affiliation, up from six members (about 1%) of the previous Congress,Miu Miu Bags. This is about the same as the percentage of U.S. adults in Pew Research Center surveys who say that they don't know,Miu Miu Handbags, or refuse to specify, their faith (about 2%).
These are some of the findings from a new analysis by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life of congressional data compiled primarily by CQ Roll Call. The analysis compares the religious affiliations of members of the new Congress with Pew Research Center survey data on the U.S. public. CQ Roll Call gathered information on the religious affiliations of members of Congress through questionnaires and follow-up phone calls to members' and candidates' offices, and the Pew Forum supplemented this with additional research.
The full analysis,Miu Miu Online, including a downloadable graphic depicting the religious makeup of the new Congress, is available on the Pew Forum's website.
The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world. As part of the Washington-based Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan,Miu Miu Bags, non-advocacy organization, the Pew Forum does not take positions on policy debates or any of the issues it covers.
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