Reporting and Implications of the Data (Chapter 7) (Report‪)‬

Information on the respondents' background characteristics is to be found in Table 2. To summarize the sample, the total number of respondents to the questionnaire was 352. There were 167 males and 185 females. Approximately half the group went to college and/or obtained graduate degrees; 30% of the women and 54% of the men characterized themselves as in either professional/ technical or managerial occupations, and only 24.9% of the women were out of the work force. Close to half of the respondents (44%) were Protestant, while 20% indicated no religion at all; 68% were considered to be unreligious in practice, as they indicated attending services only "rarely" or "never." Although no questions specifically geared to measuring sexual liberality were included in the survey, the method of data collection via Forum suggests that it may be a characteristic of this sample.