THE 2017 GREATER PITTSBURGH JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDY Technical Appendices
Matthew Boxer Matthew A. Brookner Janet Krasner Aronson Leonard Saxe Table of Contents
Technical Appendix A: Methodology ...... 1 Sampling Frame ...... 2 Sample Design ...... 4 Survey Instrument and Data Collection ...... 5 Field Procedures ...... 6 Enhanced RDD for Population Estimates ...... 8 Weighting ...... 12 Final Population Estimates ...... 16 Analysis ...... 17 Bias and Limitations ...... 17 Technical Appendix B: Latent Class Analysis ...... 20 Technical Appendix C: Comparison Charts ...... 25 Technical Appendix D: Survey Instrument and Codebook ...... 56 Technical Appendix E: Maps ..………………………………………………………………………………………………………….... 164 Technical Appendix F: Study Documentation …………………………………………………………………………………….. 173
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Appendix A: Methodology
Overview
CMJS/SSRI has developed innovative methods to estimate the size and characteristics of the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community. As survey techniques have become more refined, the barriers to reaching respondents have become increasingly difficult to overcome. Researchers typically experience limitations in reaching respondents due to the proliferation of survey research, the prevalence of cell phones as well as caller ID/blocking. Low-incidence populations are particularly hard to reach using the traditional method of random digit dialing (RDD) because the likelihood of reaching someone in the target population depends upon the size of that group relative to the population as a whole. To address these barriers, CMJS has utilized a research design that incorporates two innovations:
Data from an extended sample of email-only respondents Use of organizational data to correct for sampling bias
The research design for the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study utilizes random sampling from an identified frame, or list, of the known population. Community organizations provided their own lists. These lists were combined with a purchased list of likely Jewish households within the geographic area and were then deduplicated. The combined list constituted the sampling frame from which a random primary sample of households was drawn. Because this sample was a random selection from the overall frame, it is assumed to be representative of the entire frame. For that reason, data collected from the random sample were used to estimate overall population characteristics.
To supplement the random primary sample, a second sample was drawn from a frame consisting of the remaining households who had an email address. Information from these households increased the amount of data available from populations of interest and allowed for more detailed analysis of the characteristics of the community.
The methodology is described as follows: 1. Sampling frame 2. Sample design 3. Survey instrument and data collection 4. Field procedures 5. Enhanced RDD for population estimates 6. Weighting 7. Analysis 8. Bias and Limitations 2
1. Sampling Frame
The 2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study implemented a dual-mode Internet and telephone survey to reach year-round and seasonal residents of the Greater Pittsburgh area. In the absence of an area probability or RDD frame, we began to build a sampling frame from the combined mailing lists of Jewish organizations in the area. The names of the organizations included in the lists are shown in Table A1. Table A1. Composition of strata Number Type Organization 1 Oversample Bet Tikvah Congregation B’nai Abraham Congregation Emanu-El Israel Israeli Women in Pittsburgh Keshet Pittsburgh Israeli Community 2 Parents/Children Community Day School, parents Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh Camp Ramah, parents Yeshiva Schools 3 Young Adults Birthright Israel, applicants Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh (JCC), young adults list Moishe House Repair the World The Edward and Rose Berman Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh 4 Synagogues Adat Shalom Congregation Ahavath Achim Congregation Beth El Congregation B'nai Emunoh Chabad Chabad Fox Chapel - The Jewish Center Chabad of Cranberry/North Hills Chabad of Monroeville Chabad of the South Hills Jewish Center for Living and Learning Chabad Outreach (aka Chabad of Squirrel Hill) Congregation Beth Shalom Congregation Kether Torah Kollel Jewish Learning Center New Light Congregation / Ohr Chadash Parkway Jewish Center 3
Poale Zedeck Congregation Rodef Shalom Congregation Shaare Torah Congregation Temple David Temple Emanuel of South Hills Temple Ohav Shalom Temple Sinai Young Peoples Synagogue 5 Adults Birthright Israel, parents Community Day School, friends and donors Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of Hadassah Hebrew Free Loan Association Imperial House J Street Pittsburgh JCC, friends and donors Jewish Association on Aging Jewish Cemetery and Burial Association Jewish Family & Children's Service Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Residential Services, Inc. Jewish Women's Foundation Camp Ramah, not parents Riverview Towers The Jewish Chronicle 6 Ethnic names Infogroup
In order to find any Jewish-connected households not already known to the organized Jewish community, a list of possible Jewish households was purchased from a commercial data broker, Infogroup, and was added to the sample. This list identifies households based on their geography, and then further restricts households to those with Jewish last or first names. This list, referred to as the “Ethnic names” list, consisted of 59,888 households that were identified as likely to include someone who was Hebrew-speaking or Jewish by ethnicity, ethnic group, or religion. Those households that appeared on this list and no organizational list—27,171 households—represented the “unaffiliated” Jewish community.
The organizational and purchased lists were combined, cleaned, and deduplicated to ensure that no unique household appeared on the list more than once. Households without any mailing address were removed from the sampling frame because they could not be fully identified. The combined sampling frame consisted of 81,125 households.
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2. Sample Design
The households in the sampling frame were divided into six groupings, called strata, based on expected characteristics of the household inferred from the household’s appearance on organizational lists. The composition of the six strata is shown in Table A1. Households that appeared on multiple lists were placed in the lowest-numbered strata for which they were eligible; for example, a household appearing on a parent/children list (stratum 2), a synagogue list (stratum 4), and the ethnic names list (stratum 6) would be assigned to stratum 2.
An original primary sample of 6,500 potential respondents was randomly selected from six different strata (Tables A2a and A2b). The sampling rate of each stratum was designed to oversample likely Jewish households and likely households with children in order to maximize the representation of those groups within the final sample. In order to be eligible for selection as primary sample, a case had to have a mailing address.
To guard against the possibility that the amount of sample released would prove insufficient to yield the desired number of telephone interviews, a back-up sample was set aside for potential later release. As with the primary sample, in order to be eligible for selection, a case had to have an address. A total of 2,962 cases were randomly drawn into the back-up sample.
Following selection of the sample, an email-only supplement was identified. This sample frame of 16,973 households for the email supplement included all households with email addresses that were not selected into the primary sample. All of those households were selected into the email- only supplement. A survey invitation was sent to one email address for each household followed by up to five email reminders. If email messages “bounced” or were undeliverable, another email address from the same household was substituted if available.
Through the process of data collection, it was determined that the primary and back-up samples proved to have a higher percentage of inaccurate or out-of-date contact information, as well as more ineligible households, than expected. Therefore, partway through data collection, a random sample of 3,104 cases previously unused from the frame were added to the overall primary sample.
The addition of the tertiary sample did not provide a sufficient number of eligible households. To remedy this, 1,996 randomly selected eligible cases that had been assigned to the supplementary sample were reclassified as part of the overall primary sample and added to the calling rotation as a quaternary sample (see Field Procedures below). The remaining supplementary sample consisted of 14,977 cases.
The combination of the primary, backup, tertiary, and quaternary samples constitutes the representative sample and totals 14,562 households. The representative sample plus the email- only supplement is referred to as the “full sample” and totals 29,539 households.
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Table A2a. Representative sample phases by strata Strata Tertiary Quaternary number Original Back- (Prev. (Reclassified Description Frame Primary up Unused) Supplement) 1 Over Sample 359 220 6 0 0 2 Parents/Children 5,932 850 357 158 500 3 Young Adults 11,017 800 363 339 500 4 Synagogues 6,283 780 288 388 497 5 Adults 30,363 850 448 1,851 499 6 Ethnic Names 27,171 3,000 1,500 368 0
Total 81,125 6,500 2,962 3,104 1,996
Table A2b. Full sample size by strata Strata number Description Frame Representative Supplement 1 Over Sample 359 226 90 2 Parents/Children 5,932 1,865 908 3 Young Adults 11,017 2,002 4,995 4 Synagogues 6,283 1,953 996 5 Adults 30,363 3,648 7,988 6 Ethnic Names 27,171 4,868 0
Total 81,125 14,562 14,977
3. Survey Instrument and Data Collection
The survey instrument was designed in collaboration with a special advisory committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. The questions were crafted to minimize potential bias and any burden on respondents. Where possible, questions, language, and definitions were adopted from previously published Jewish community survey questionnaires, allowing for greater confidence in their reliability.
Two modes of data collection were utilized: online and telephone. The online and telephone instruments were identical—when a survey was completed over the phone, the telephone interviewer would fill out the online version.
The questionnaire was divided into two parts, a screener and the survey itself. The screener section was asked of all respondents to determine eligibility. Any household in the sample was considered eligible if it contained at least one adult aged 18 or older who lived in Greater Pittsburgh for at least part of the year and considered him- or herself to be Jewish. A total of 4,280 households completed the screener and of those, 2,278 were screened into the survey. 6
Thirty-six respondents were initially screened into the survey but after inspection of responses were determined to include no Jewish adults or that the adults were Messianic Jews and therefore ineligible for the survey.1 An additional 131 respondents screened into the survey but did not complete the household roster, and so were not included in analyses. The final achieved sample consisted of 2,111 households.
Qualifying households proceeded to the main survey, which included sections on basic sociodemographic information, engagement in Jewish life, and perceptions of various aspects of Jewish communal life in Greater Pittsburgh. In order to minimize the burden on respondents, a series of complex skip patterns (“branching”) were created to ensure that respondents were only asked questions that pertained to their specific life situation or experience. Thus, for example, a household with no children would not be asked questions about choice of schools and camps. The online survey took between 20-30 minutes to complete. Respondents completing the survey over the telephone usually completed it in 25-35 minutes. Median survey length was 24 minutes 36 seconds. However, the amount of time required to complete the survey varied for all respondents, regardless of mode of completion, depending on household composition and the degree of detail respondents were willing to offer for open-ended questions.
The survey instrument is presented in the form of a codebook in Appendix D.
4. Field Procedures
Prenotification letters were mailed to the primary sample of 6,500 households on April 28, 2017. These letters explained the purpose of the survey and provided each household with a unique link to complete the survey independently online. Households for which one or more e-mail addresses were available also received these letters electronically on May 1, 2017. A sample of the prenotification letter is shown in Appendix F.
After one week, households that had not completed the survey were contacted by telephone. The primary goal of telephone contact was to administer the survey over the phone if the respondent was unable or unwilling to complete the survey online, or if the respondent simply preferred to complete the survey over the phone. If the respondent was unwilling to complete the survey over the phone at the time of the call, he or she was asked for a better time to be called again or for an email address to re-send the link to the survey online. Calling began on May 9, 2017, starting with the households for which phone numbers were available. Calling concluded on August 24, 2017. Eight email reminders were sent for all non-completed surveys on May 10, May 17, May 25, June 2, June 13, June 19, June 27, July 6, July 13, July 20, July 28, August 7, and August 16, 2017.
Data collection was conducted and supervised by Abt Associates. Abt was responsible for selecting and training callers, supervising and monitoring calling, tracking dispositions, and sending email reminders. Interviewers and supervisors were trained in survey procedures for this specific project. These procedures included: Survey sponsorship, target population, and eligibility. 7
Moving between the computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) software used for screening and dispositioning calls and the web-based software used for the main interview. The survey questionnaire. Pronunciation of selected words. Dispositions. Entering open-ends. In addition to survey-specific training, interviewers also received general training in telephone procedures and interviewing techniques. Only interviewers who had undergone this basic training worked on the project. Interviewers were provided with paper sheets with frequently asked questions and “tack-ups” with pronunciation guides, names of Jewish organizations and congregations, and background information on selected concepts. For households in the primary sample, a maximum of five attempts were allowed to contact the household by phone. The maximum number of attempts for a given phone number was eight with a median of three; this exceeded the five attempts if, for instance, an appointment was made or the case was resampled. The maximum number of attempts made for any one case (across all phone numbers) was 40. The median number of attempts for a case was six. Callers offered to conduct survey interviews over the telephone or, if requested, to email the household members their unique link to complete the survey online at their convenience.
Households were contacted repeatedly at different days and times to determine whether available contact information was correct. Households whose available contact information was confirmed to be outdated, who had no contact information, and those for whom the status was uncertain were searched in online public records databases to find updated information. Research assistants searched for additional contact information and added phone numbers to the calling list as they were identified.
On June 16, 2017, prenotification letters were sent to the back-up sample, which was then added to the representative sample. On June 20, 2017, the back-up sample and the “previously unused” sample were released to calling and added to the representative sample. On August 2, 2017, the reclassified sample was released to calling, and added to the representative sample.
The supplementary sample was conducted as an email-only survey that was not accompanied by prenotification letters or phone calls. The survey instrument for the email sample was identical to the one used for the primary sample. Email invitations were sent to the 16,973 households in the original email supplement for strata 1-5 on May 3, with up to four follow-up reminders sent to the not-reclassified supplement through July 31, 2017.
Skip errors
Skip errors were identified for a number of items and recontact efforts were initiated on June 16, 2017.2 Respondents affected by the skip errors were recontacted by email and asked to complete a version of the survey containing the affected items. 8
Data outcomes
Data collection ended on August 28, 2017. In the representative sample, 3,778 households completed the screener; of those, 1,215 were screened into the full survey. The overall response rate was 28.6% for the representative sample (AAPOR RR3). For the combined primary plus supplemental sample, 5,684 households completed the screener, and of those, 2,111 were screened into the full survey, yielding an overall response rate of 24.6% (AAPOR RR3).
Table A3. Response rate by strata for representative sample (AAPOR) Screened Screened Response Refusal Cooperation Contact
Sample In Out Rate 3 Rate 2 Rate 1 Rate 2 Oversample 226 79 74 67.1% 4.9% 86.1% 77.9% Parents / Children 1,865 355 260 32.2% 5.5% 75.2% 42.8% Young Adults 2,002 328 291 32.8% 5.8% 77.8% 42.1% Synagogues 1,953 305 285 32.9% 6.2% 75.6% 43.6% Adults 3,648 134 808 22.9% 3.1% 81.2% 28.3% Ethnic Names 4,868 14 845 26.0% 10.3% 69.5% 37.4%
Total 14,562 1,215 2,563 28.6% 6.7% 75.3% 38.2%
5. Enhanced RDD for Population Estimates
Since 2005, the Steinhardt Social Research Institute has identified and collected hundreds of data sources, primarily population surveys, that could be used to develop estimates of the Jewish population. These data are used to provide an independent, external reference on the basic demographic profile of the population, including national- and state-level population counts and distributions by age and education. This population profile serves as a point of reference for the community as a whole and for those who conduct targeted surveys of the population and have no frame of reference for evaluating the representativeness of their sample survey. Details of the methods are reported elsewhere.3
The data synthesis method demonstrates how an auxiliary data source can be constructed to provide independent, census-like estimates of the size and characteristics of the adult Jewish by religion (JBR) population in the U.S. at the county level.4 These county-level estimates of the adult JBR population may then be used to generate new post-stratification weights. These new post-stratification weights are then applied to the targeted study of the Pittsburgh Jewish population.
It is important to note that a significant part of this presentation is predicated on the understanding that estimates developed through the SSRI data synthesis approach use hundreds of representative samples of adults in the target area. In comparison, targeted studies, including the Pittsburgh Jewish community study, employ a standard approach among survey research generally. In the latter example, estimates observed in a single survey presume to represent the true population based on a hypothetical—that if the survey were repeated, 95 out of 100 times 9
the survey would yield an estimate within the 95% confidence interval observed in the survey. However, these repeated surveys are never actually done. Rather than rely on the hypothetical, the SSRI data synthesis approach directly estimates what the data look like across actually observed repeated independent samples. The approach is very different than simply pooling or aggregating multiple surveys.5 One important distinction is that variation in survey level characteristics can be modeled and controlled for across samples.
Summary of Data
The full sample of surveys in the SSRI database currently spans the years 2000 to 2016, with an additional sample of surveys from 1988 to 1992, for a total of more than 750 independent samples and a total combined sample size of more than 900,000 respondents, of whom over 22,000 identify as Jewish by religion. The present report is based on the most recent data subset to counties within the Pittsburgh area, from the years 2010 to 2016.6 This subset consists of 139 samples with a total of 11,808 respondents of whom 364 identify as Jewish by religion.
Samples include those conducted as part of a series, such as the General Social Survey (GSS), a National Science Foundation study which has been conducted biennially since 2000,7 the American National Election Studies, and the survey of Religion and Public Life conducted annually by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. In addition, the sample includes surveys conducted regularly by major news organizations (ABC, CBS, NBC), and a number of independent studies, such as the Baylor Religion Survey,8 and the Panel Study on Religion & Ethnicity.9 Where a single survey may have included multiple sampling methods or frames (e.g., landline versus cellphone), each is treated as a separate independent sample, with unique identifiers to indicate series membership.10 For surveys that included oversamples, only the representative portion of the samples were included in the analyses unless the oversamples were of groups estimated directly in the population models—for example, age or race—in which case the over-sample contributed only to estimation of that particular group.
About half of the surveys (49%) were standard RDD telephone surveys. Forty-nine percent were cell phone surveys and approximately 2% were in-person interviews, mail or other (e.g., WebTV/PC). Landline surveys account for 63% of the cases, and cell phone surveys account for 31% of the cases. Cell phone surveys are typically included as an additional independent sample collected along with a landline sample. This is done because it improves estimation of particular demographic groups that tend to be under-represented in landline samples, such as younger and less affluent groups.11 Given the different methods of selection for landline and cell-phone surveys, we treated each as separate independent samples in the analyses.
All of the surveys provide data on those who identify as Jewish by religion (JBR), which is the largest proportion of the Jewish population and therefore serves as the baseline group for generating population estimates. A smaller number of surveys include assessment of religious upbringing or parents' religious/ethnic identification, or non-religious Jewish identification (for instance, “Do you consider yourself Jewish?”) in addition to current religious affiliation.12 Often the religious identification question is asked as “What is your religion? Is it Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, something else, or no religion?” Nearly all include Jewish as one of the discrete options. An increasing number of surveys provide no discrete options and ask simply, “What is 10
your religion, if any?” and record all self-generated responses to the question. Question wording is recorded in order to examine whether there are differences in Jewish population estimates across the surveys. Overall, 10% of surveys asked an open-ended religious identification question while 90% asked closed ended questions. Most of the surveys (92%) specifically included a “no religion” option (none, non-religious, atheist, or agnostic). Recent research has suggested that the inclusion of none as a specific option increases the proportion of those who identify as “no religion.”13 Given that a substantial proportion (up to 25%) of the national Jewish population might identify as no religion when asked about religion, this aspect of question wording was also recorded to see if it is also associated with lower estimates of Jewish identification by religion, and if higher proportions identifying as “no religion” is associated with lower estimated proportions of Jewish identification overall.
Modeling
The full post-stratification model specification included fixed effects for demographic and geographic (county) variables and random effects for survey. Covariates in the model include basic demographic variables (age, race, sex, and education). These mirror the categories used in the national data synthesis model. Race was represented by four categories; age as six; education as two; and sex as two. Geographic variables were also included to account for variability in Jewish population density at the county level.
Pittsburgh Jewish Population Estimates
Results from the model provide overall population estimates as well as estimates of the distribution of Jews by demographic groupings (age, race, sex, county, etc.). The latter is critical for understanding the characteristics of the population, for evaluating external data, and for providing the basis of weighting for targeted local studies.
The overall estimate of the Pittsburgh adult population who identify as Jewish by religion is 2.1% (95% CI: 1.5%-2.7%), corresponding to 34,900 adults (95% CI: 25,900 to 45,800; See Table A4). Distributions within the Jewish population varied by age, education, race, and county. For example the proportion of JBR adults who are college educated varies from 65% in Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) to 54% in the outer Pittsburgh region (Beaver, Butler, Washington, and Westmoreland counties). The age distribution is likewise varied by county, from just 8% of JBR adults in the outer Pittsburgh region ages 25-34 to 13% of JBR adults ages 25-34 in Allegheny County.
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Table A4: 2010 to 2016 Greater Pittsburgh population model: Adult Jewish population by religion estimates based to Census Population Estimates Program 2016
Pittsburgh Jewish Adults Adults Percentage of Pittsburgh Lower Upper Population Pct Adults (CI) Population Bound Bound Total All Groups 1,679,904 2.1 (1.5,2.7) 34,900 25,900 45,800 Age 18-24 years 158,281 9.42 2.3 (1.4, 3.6) 3,700 2,200 5,700 25-34 years 284,057 16.9 1.5 (0.9, 2.2) 4,300 2,600 6,400 35-44 years 239,220 14.2 1.3 (0.7, 2.0) 3,100 1,800 4,700 45-54 years 284,902 17.0 1.8 (1.2, 2.5) 5,000 3,300 7,200 55-64 years 322,568 19.2 2.6 (1.9, 3.6) 8,500 6,100 11,600 65+ years 390,876 23.3 2.7 (1.9, 3.5) 10,400 7,600 13,800 Education Non-College 1,149,050 68.4 1.1 (0.7, 1.5) 12,700 9,200 17,700 College Grad 530,854 31.6 4.2 (3.1, 5.4) 22,200 16,500 28,900 Sex
Male 806,472 48.0 2.1 (1.6, 2.8) 17,100 12,500 22,800
Female 873,432 52.0 2.0 (1.5, 2.7) 17,800 13,200 23,700 Race Non-Hisp. 1,485,815 88.5 2.3 (1.7, 3.0) 34,400 25,400 44,800 White Non-Hisp. 125,351 7.46 0.2 (0.0, 0.4) 200 100 500 Black Hispanic 19,915 1.19 0.6 (0.2, 1.3) 100 0 300 Non-Hisp. 48,822 2.91 0.5 (0.0, 1.0) 200 100 500 Other County Allegheny 961,161 57.2 3.3 (2.4, 4.3) 31,700 23,200 41,600 Outer Pittsburgh 718,743 42.8 0.4 (0.1, 1.0) 3,200 900 6,300 Region *
Notes: a) Source: Census Population Estimates Program, 2016. Adjustment for education made using ACS 2016 and post-stratified for household population using 2010 Census. * Includes Beaver, Butler, Washington, and Westmoreland counties
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Estimating the number of JNRs (Jews of no religion)
The next step in estimating the size of the adult Jewish population was to estimate the number of adult JNRs. Estimates of the number of JNRs are not directly available from the data synthesis and must be approximated from other sources. In this study, the proportion of JNRs was estimated using data from the Pew study of American Jews, which reported an Eastern United States regional rate of 18.2%.
Thus, the preliminary Jewish adult population was estimated by Enhanced RDD as 35,100 JBR + 7,700 JNR 42,800 Jewish adults
These numbers were later adjusted slightly to account for the estimate of the numbers of adults who answered “Jewish” to the religion question (and counted as JBR in the Enhanced RDD estimates) who were later identified as not Jewish.
6. Weighting
Overview of weighting procedures used
The purpose of developing survey weights for the sample is to adjust the survey data so that they will represent the population from which they were drawn. This is done in two ways: base weights, which are based on sample design, and poststratification weights, which are adjustments to external benchmarks.
For base weights, the data are adjusted to match the sampling frame by calculating the strata- specific probabilities of selection into the sample and rates of response. By adjusting weights upwards for respondents from strata in which households were less likely to be selected or to respond, and adjusting weights downward for respondents from strata in which households were more likely to be selected or to respond, the resulting weights adjust the data to match the frame from which they were drawn.
Poststratification, the second phase of weighting, adjusts the data to match known population parameters. In this case, the known parameters that were utilized were the Enhanced RDD estimates of the JBR adult population and their age distribution, as described in the previous section, the number of children currently enrolled in Jewish day schools and part-time schools, and the number of synagogue members. After applying the base weights, the sample is adjusted again to match these parameters. This step yields the primary sample weights for households and respondents.
The weighted primary sample was used to estimate the size of the adult population for multiple categories of religious identity as well as the distribution of Jewish denominational affiliation.
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For the supplemental sample, base weights were calculated for the email portion of the frame based on differential probability of selection and response. After applying base weights, poststratification weights were calculated to adjust the full sample to the JBR and age estimates from data synthesis, the number of children in day school, as well as the JNR estimate and denominational affiliation calculated from the primary sample.
At the end of the process, a datafile was created with one record per household. In this file, each record has four weights:
1) wtprimhh: the weight of the household for the primary sample 2) wtfullhh: the weight of the household for the full sample 3) wtprimresp: the respondent's individual weight for the primary sample 4) wtfullresp: the respondent's individual weight for the full sample
Design and base weights
Base weights were calculated separately for the primary sample and the supplemental sample. Base weights are calculated as the product of the design weight (inverse of the probability of selection into the sample) and the nonresponse weight (inverse of the probability of responding after being selected into the sample).
For the primary sample, data were weighted separately within each sub-stratum by the probability of selection into the sample (design weights) and nonresponse. To calculate the design weight, the preliminary frame size was adjusted to account for the presumed ineligibility of a proportion of the households in the sample frame. Ineligible households identified during the data collection period of the survey are those households that are found to be duplicates, deceased, or infirm. The adjusted frame size for each stratum was calculated as:
Adjusted frame size = Frame size × (Number eligible households ÷ Number selected households)
The design weight for each stratum was calculated as:
Design weight = Adjusted frame size ÷ Number eligible households
Respondents were those who partially or fully completed the survey. Partial surveys were those in which the screening data were completed (whether the respondent was screened in or out). The nonresponse weight for each stratum was calculated as:
Nonresponse weight = Number eligible households ÷ Number respondent households
The base weight is calculated by multiplying the design weight by the nonresponse weight:
Base weight = Design weight × Nonresponse weight
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Poststratification
To adjust the sample to account for the known population of Jews in the Greater Pittsburgh area, the process of poststratification was used.14
To adjust to the number of JBR adults, the survey data were reviewed based on responses to religion questions for each adult in the household. Each adult received a preliminary designation of Jewish by religion (JBR), Jewish not be religion (JNR), Jews of multiple religions (JMR), Jewish background (JB), Jewish affinity (JA), or not Jewish. All households with no JBR, JNR, or JMR adults were classified as non-Jewish and reclassified as screened out of the sample.
The first stage of the poststratification was conducted on an individual rather than a household level.15 The file was converted to an individual-level file with one record created for each adult in the household. The weights of the individual records initially were set at the weights of the household record, resulting in a total weight that added up to the number of individuals rather than the number of households.
The individual records were poststratified to match the JBR and JNR counts. Individuals in the data file who were JNR or JMR were adjusted to the total JNR. The ages, genders, and educational attainment of the JBR adults were adjusted to match the JBR age estimates from meta-analysis. The ages of the JNR adults were adjusted to match the age distribution of JNR adults in the Pew study.
The result of this step were interim individual poststratification weights for each individual adult. Because further poststratification weights were conducted at the household level, the interim individual weights were converted to preliminary household weights by taking the mean of all of the individual poststratified weights for all adults in the household for the respondent record.16 All records for non-respondents were dropped.
Poststratifying to known parameters
The second stage of postestimation applied to households rather than individuals. In this stage we further poststratified the sample using known parameters of the Jewish community: day school enrollment, part-time school enrollment, and synagogue membership. To make use of these numbers, the education enrollment numbers needed to be converted to a number of households that they each represented.
Local schools provided an estimate of 792 children enrolled in Jewish day schools and 998 in Jewish part-time schools. To use these estimates for individual adult weights, we estimated the number of households that they represented and the number of adults in those households.
For each household, we categorized it as a day school household if any children were enrolled in day school and a part time household if any children were enrolled in part time school. We coded synagogue households if they were members of an Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform synagogue.
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For households that had any children in school we estimated:
Mean (weighted) DS students per DS household Mean (weighted) PT students per PT household
To estimate households, we used the following formula:
DS household count = (DS students total ÷ mean DS students per household) PT household count = (PT students total ÷ mean PT students per household)
For synagogue households, data provided by local congregations indicated that there were 800 households belonging to Orthodox synagogues, 1,120 to Conservative, 2,700 to Reform, and 400 to unaffiliated congregations.
The last stage of the poststratification of the primary sample was to adjust the number of households to match the day school households, part-time school households, and denominational synagogue households. The results of this step yielded the primary household weight.
Respondent weights
Weights for individual respondents, primary respondent weights, were created for analysis of individual level characteristics. Respondents were poststratified to represent all adults in the population.
Using the primary household weights, estimates were generated for the total number of adults for the following parameters: Jewish type (JBR, JNR/JMR) or non-Jewish Age and gender Jewish denomination (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Other, None) Adults in DS household Adults in PT school household Adults in synagogue (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Unaffiliated)
The starting weight for the respondent poststratification was the interim individual weight for the respondent. This was poststratified using the parameters listed above to yield the primary respondent weight.
Weights for the full sample
For the full sample, base weights were calculated differently than for the primary sample but the poststratification processes were similar. The full sample was a combination of the primary (including backup, tertiary, and quaternary samples) and the supplement, or email-only, samples. All households in the frame were eligible to be selected into the primary sample, but only households with email addresses could be selected into the supplement. Furthermore, households 16
in the supplement received a lower level of effort than did those in the primary, resulting in different probabilities of response.
The full frame was divided conceptually into an email and a non-email frame. All households with email addresses were assigned into the email frame. For households without email addresses, the base weight was calculated identically to the way it was for the primary sample.
For households with email addresses, households were considered to have been selected into the full sample if they were in the primary or the supplement.
The design weight for each email stratum was calculated as:
Design weight = Email frame size ÷ (primary email sample + supplement email sample)
The probability of response depended on the level of effort so was different for primary and supplement subsets.
Nonresponse weight, email primary = Primary email sample ÷ Primary email respondents
Nonresponse weight, email supplement = Supplement email sample ÷ Supplement email respondents
The base weight is calculated by multiplying the design weight by the nonresponse weight:
Base weight = Design weight × Nonresponse weight
Poststratification of full sample
Poststratification of the full sample was conducted in the same way as for the primary sample, as described above. However, all poststratification targets for the full sample were the estimates generated from the primary sample only.
7. Final Population Estimates
Margin of error
Many studies report a margin of error instead of reporting confidence intervals. The margin of error is the 95% confidence interval that would be expected if ALL survey respondents had answered a question; if there were only two response choices; if about half gave each response; and if the survey design had used a simple random sample. Given these conditions, the margin of error is dependent solely on the sample size and population size. Furthermore, the margin of error is only applicable to percentages, not to totals or means.
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In our sample, with 1,215 respondents in the primary sample, the margin of error would have been ±2.74% if we had used a simple random sample. Applying an adjustment factor to account for the use of a stratified random sample increases the margin of error to about ±6%.
Precise population estimates with confidence intervals
Population numbers presented in the report were rounded so as to avoid overprecision—that is, the misleading implication that our estimates are correct down to the single digit.
The precise population estimates with 95% confidence intervals are shown in Table A5. For example, the best estimate of the total Jewish population is 49,152 people, but given the size of the sample and possible sampling and non-response error, we can only be 95% confident that the true value lies somewhere between 43,057 people and 55,247 people.
Table A5. Population Estimates with Confidence Intervals Shown
Estimate Lower bound Upper bound Total Jews 49,152 43,057 55,247 Adults 50,524 44,116 56,932 Jewish 42,749 36,964 48,534 Non-Jewish 7,768 5,283 10,254 Children 8,466 6,101 10,831 Jewish 6,403 4,963 7,844 Non-Jewish 2,062 283 3,842 Total people 58,990 51,669 66,311 Total households 26,840 23,248 30,432
8. Analysis
All analyses were completed using statistical software Stata, version 15. Unless otherwise noted, all analyses were restricted to Jewish households (in which at least one adult was Jewish) as well as individual Jewish adults and Jewish children who were specifically identified by respondents as being Jewish. Analysis of characteristics of the entire population were based only on the primary sample with appropriate weights applied. All analyses of subgroups or subsets of the population were conducted using the full sample with appropriate weights applied. In certain circumstances, noted in the main report, cases were excluded from analysis because the unusually large weights assigned to them unduly skewed results. Data about the household in general was calculated using household weights and data about individual adults or respondents only was calculated using respondent weights.
9. Bias and Limitations
Every effort to create a representative sample was made in order to prevent bias or, where bias was unavoidable, to identify and reduce it. Nevertheless, some groups are particularly likely to 18
be underrepresented in the sample. Most significant among these are unaffiliated Jews (including new residents and intermarried families) and young adult Jews. Young adult Jews are also likely undercounted for other reasons. Young adults in general are notoriously difficult to reach for telephone surveys, in part due to the increasing rate of cell phone-only households and in part because they tend to move more frequently than older adults; both conditions render young adults harder to track.
Newcomers who are not known to the community are very likely undercounted, though they may have appeared on the ethnic names list. Interfaith families may also be underrepresented to the extent that they are unaffiliated and reside in households with directory listings that do not fit the selected ethnic name parameters.
1 Messianic Jews claim Jewish identity, but their claim is typically rejected by the vast majority of the Jewish community. Respondents who identified as Messianic Jews in this study were treated as non-Jews.
2 The affected items consisted of CITISRHH, CITISRRESP, GLBHH, GLBRESP, INTERHH, RACEHH, RACERESP, RESPDENOM, YADATEJ, YAKIDSJ, YAMARJ, YARELRELIG, YAISGOTH, and YASTUD.
3 Saxe, L., & Tighe, E. (2013). Estimating and understanding the Jewish population in the United States. Contemporary Jewry, 33, 43-62; Tighe, E., Livert, D., Barnett, M., & Saxe, L. (2010). Cross-survey analysis to estimate low-incidence religious groups. Sociological Methods & Research, 39, 56-82; Tighe, E., Saxe, L., Kadushin, C., Magidin de Kramer, R., Nursahedov, B., Aronson, J., & Cherny, L. (2011). Estimating the Jewish population of the United States: 2000-2010. Waltham, MA: Steinhardt Social Research Institute, Brandeis University; Tighe, E., Saxe, L., Magidin de Kramer, R., & Parmer, D. (2013). American Jewish population estimates: 2012. Waltham, MA: Steinhardt Social Research Institute, Brandeis University.
4 Tighe et al., American Jewish population estimates: 2012.
5 cf. Hartman, H., & Sheskin, I.M. (2012). The relationship of Jewish community contexts and Jewish identity: A 22-community study. Contemporary Jewry, 32, 237-283.
6 For a description of search strategies used to identify surveys and inclusion criteria, see Tighe et al., 2010, 2011.
7 Smith, T.W., Marsden, P.V., & Hout, M. (2011). General Social Survey, 1972-2010 [cumulative file]. ICPSR31521-v1. Storrs, CT, and Ann Arbor, MI: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut, and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors].
8 Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. (2007). The Baylor Religion Survey, Wave II. Waco, TX: Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University.
9 Emerson, M.O., Sikkink, D., & James, A.D. (2010). The Panel Study on American Religion and Ethnicity: Background, methods, and selected results. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 49, 162-171.
10 Series identification is included in the dataset to be able to examine differences across surveys that can be accounted for by survey series.
11 Baker, R., Blumberg, S.J., Brick, J.M., Couper, M.P., Courtright, M., Dennis, J.M., Dillman, D., Frankel, M.R., Garland, P., Groves, R.M., Kennedy, C., Krosnick, J., & Lavrakas, P. (2010). Research synthesis: AAPOR report on online panels. Public Opinion Quarterly, 74, 711-781; Biemer, P., & Link, M.W. (2006). Evaluating and modeling 19
early computer bias in RDD surveys. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Telephone Survey Methodology; Blumberg, S.J., & Luke, J.V. (2014). Wireless substitution: Early release of estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, July-December 2013. National Center for Health Statistics; Lavrakas, P.J., Blumberg, S., Battaglia, M., Boyle, J., Brick, M., Buskirk, T., DiSogra, C., Dutwin, D., Fahimi, M., Fienberg, H., Fleeman, A., Guterbock, T.M., Hall, J., Keeter, S., Kennedy, C., Link, M., Piekarski, L, Shuttles, C.D., Steeh, C., Tompson, T., & ZuWallack, R. (2010). New considerations for survey researchers when planning and conducting RDD telephone surveys in the U.S. with respondents reached via cell phone numbers. AAPOR Cell Phone Task Force; Link, M., Battaglia, M.P., Frankel, M., Osborn, L., & Mokdad, A. (2007). Reaching the U.S. cell phone generation: Comparison of cell phone survey results with an ongoing landline telephone survey. Public Opinion Quarterly, 71, 814-839; Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. (2006). National polls not undermined by growing cell-only population. Washington, DC: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
12 Currently there are too few surveys of representative samples of all U.S. adults that include alternative methods of Jewish identification. Thus, the present analyses focus on the JBR population only.
13 Putnam, R.D., & Campbell, D.E. (2010). American grace: How religion divides and unites us. New York: Simon & Schuster.
14 Poststratification was conducted in Stata using the user-generated survwgt command (https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s427503.html#cites) and the ipfraking command (Kolenikov, Stanislav. “Calibrating survey data using iterative proportional fitting (raking).” The Stata Journal 14.1 (2014): 22-59.)
15 For a discussion of the challenges of simultaneously poststratifying at the individual and household level, see Kolenikov, S., and Hammer, H. (2015) Simultaneous Raking of Survey Weights at Multiple Levels. Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, Special issue: ‘Weighting: Practical Issues and ‘How to’ Approach. Retrieved from http://surveyinsights.org/?p=5099. DOI:10.13094/SMIF-2015-00010. Multiple approaches were compared to identify the one with consistent results.
16 Multiple approaches were compared for this conversion, and the mean weight was determined to be most reliable. See Kolenikov, S., and Hammer, H. (2015). Simultaneous Raking of Survey Weights at Multiple Levels. Survey Methods: Insights from the Field, Special issue: ‘Weighting: Practical Issues and ‘How to’ Approach. Retrieved from http://surveyinsights.org/?p=5099. DOI:10.13094/SMIF-2015-00010
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Appendix B: Latent Class Analysis
Latent Class Analysis (LCA) is a method (Henry & Lazarsfeld, 1968) for uncovering the latent dimensions which explain the associations between categorical variables. It is a statistical method that is designed to identify latent variables. Latent variables are hypothesized variables of interest that cannot be measured directly in a dataset but are measured indirectly through variables that can be included (observed or manifest variables). As an illustration, “Jewish engagement” cannot be measured directly on a survey, but it is the latent variable of interest for the present study.
Unlike factor analysis, a more frequently utilized method of cluster analysis, the goal of LCA is to identify classifications of people rather than groups of variables or characteristics. The latent variable for LCA is a categorical variable representing multiple classes or types of people. Each individual is assumed to be a member of only one class. The LCA method assigns, for each case in the dataset, a probability that the case is a member of each class. This assignment is based on the pattern of responses to the observed variables used in the analysis. An excellent explanation of these techniques can be found at http://nap.edu/18623 (Institute of Medicine 2014).
The present study uses a modern version of LCA, a Stata plugin, to estimate the latent classes (Lanza et al., 2015).
Latent class analysis works with the patterns and attempts to group them in such a way that within each group, called a class, there is no association between the items. The latent class is called latent because, although it is actually not in the variable set, it accounts for the associations between the manifest variables in the same way that a third variable can account for the observed association between two variables. In the classic example of a nonsensical statement, “The more firemen at a fire the greater the damage,” the association is accounted for by a third variable—the size of the fire. The greater the fire the more firemen; the greater the fire the more damage. In technical terms, this is called “local independence,” which is also an assumption of factor analysis. The goal of completely accounting for the associations is rarely met, in part because there are so many empty cells, as well as the messiness of real data. Rather, the method tries to find through iterative fitting the right number of classes and relationship between them that minimizes the discrepancy between a perfect fit and the actual data.
To develop an index of Jewish engagement for the present report, 15 dichotomous items were used to represent the range of Jewish behaviors (Table B.1.) These items were selected to include ritual, communal, and cultural behaviors, as well as public and private behaviors. In all cases when items had more than two possible response levels, responses were dichotomized with the cutoff based on the distribution of responses in the original variable. Using these fourteen items, there are 215 possible patterns or combinations of these items resulting, if cross tabulated, in 32,768 cells. After conducting the latent class analysis, a five-class solution was identified. Latent Class Analysis was conducted in Stata version 15 using a user-developed LCA Stata Plugin developed by the Methodology Center at Penn State (Lanza et al., 2015). Solutions were examined for up to nine classes, as shown in figure B.1. The five class solution was selected as the point where the goodness-of-fit measures “level off”, that is, improvement by adding more classes begin to decline. In addition, the five-class solution made intuitive sense. As in factor 21
analysis, the number of classes, like the number of factors, is partly a matter of theory and intuition and the labels for the classes and factors are given by the analyst and are not in the data themselves. In addition to various indexes of fit, the output of the Stata program among other matters shows the size of the classes, the probability that a particular indicator would be endorsed by a member of a particular class, and the limits of confidence for the various parameters. The output is voluminous and not presented in this report. As is the case with factor analysis, the names of the classes were developed by researchers to characterize the distinguishing behaviors of each class.
Figure B.1. Goodness-of-Fit measures for 3 through 9 LCA classes 6000
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Table B.1 shows the conditional response probabilities for each behavior in the LCA analysis with the five-class solution. The first row of the table shows the probability of a random respondent being categorized in each of the five classes. The remaining rows show the conditional response probability of each behavior: the probability that a randomly selected member of a class will exhibit the given behavior. For example, for those in the class we called “Minimally Involved,” the estimated probability of attending a Seder was 13% as compared with a 100% for those labelled “Immersed.”
NOTE: This table should not be confused with Table 3.1 in the main report, which shows weighted proportions of class membership and of each behavior within the dataset, rather than conditional probabilities as estimated by the LCA algorithm.
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Table B.1. Conditional Probability Predicted by Latent Class Model
Immersed Connected Involved Holiday Minimally Involved Probability of being in each class 17% 30% 28% 11% 14% Family holidays Passover seder (typically) 100% 98% 78% 68% 13% Hanukkah (typically) 100% 97% 74% 96% 16% Ritual Kosher at home or always 67% 6% 3% 29% 1% Shabbat candles or dinner (usually/always) 99% 27% 22% 24% 0% Services at least monthly 87% 26% 1% 3% 0% Yom Kippur fast (all or part of day) 99% 91% 48% 74% 2% High Holy Days services (any in 2016) 100% 95% 10% 43% 0% Personal activities Jewish cultural activities weekly or more (book, music, TV, museum) 54% 15% 14% 4% 2% Jewish news or websites monthly or more 100% 92% 97% 41% 21% Israel news monthly or more 93% 79% 79% 55% 58% Communal activities Synagogue member 95% 67% 7% 24% 0% Organization member (JCC, formal, informal) 78% 66% 57% 24% 11% Organization activity in past year 99% 98% 98% 2% 11% Volunteered with or for a Jewish organization in past month 43% 33% 12% 5% 1% Donated to a Jewish organization in past year 95% 90% 71% 32% 17% 23
Chapter 3 of this report (Tables 4.2-4.7) describes the distribution within each of the engagement groups of demographic and Jewish background characteristics. Tables B.2 and B.3 below provide the corresponding information for reference. They show the distribution of engagement groups within each demographic or Jewish characteristic. For example, Table 3.2 shows, within each engagement group, what proportion fall into each age category. By contrast, the first row of Table B.2, labelled 18-29, shows what proportion of 18-29 year olds fall within each engagement category.
Table B.2. Demographics by Jewish engagement (percent of Jewish adults) Immersed Connected Involved Holiday Minimal Overall 16 29 29 12 13 100 AGE 18-34 25 26 28 18 3 100 35-49 15 29 29 9 18 100 50-64 16 28 22 12 22 100 65 + 14 34 35 7 10 100 GENDER Male 21 30 26 13 11 100 Female 14 31 30 10 16 100 MARRIAGE Married 19 36 26 9 10 100 Not Married 14 20 32 15 19 100 R IS PARENT Not Parent 17 30 30 12 12 100 Parent 20 32 21 9 18 100 STANDARD OF LIVING Pros/VC 16 38 24 11 11 100 Else 21 25 32 12 9 100 GEOGRAPHY Squirrel Hill 33 27 28 8 4 100 Rest of Pittsburgh 15 35 25 8 16 100 South Hills 8 19 34 12 24 100 North Hills 9 36 30 15 10 100 Rest of Region 7 35 25 19 13 100
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Table B.3 Jewish background by Jewish engagement (percent of Jewish adults) Immersed Connected Involved Holiday Minimal Overall 16 29 29 12 13 100 MARITAL Inmarried 23 43 25 7 2 100 Intermarried 11 18 29 14 28 100 DENOM Orthodox 86 7 4 2 0 100 Conservative 26 40 11 22 0 100 Reform 8 51 27 10 5 100 Other 12 43 16 7 21 100 None 2 8 48 9 33 100 TYPE OF JEW JBR 21 36 26 12 5 100 JNR 0 3 44 10 43 100 JMR 0 9 26 2 63 100 JEWISH BGROUND Parents Inmarried 20 36 27 11 7 100 Parents 100 Intermarried 9 13 32 11 35 CHILDHOOD JEWISH EDUCATION No Jewish School 7 31 28 10 24 100 Jewish School 25 30 28 12 5 100
References
Henry, N.W., & Lazarsfeld, P. F. (1968). Latent structure analysis. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Institute of Medicine. (2014). Chronic Multisymptom Illness in Gulf War Veterans: Case Definitions Reexamined. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/18623. http://nap.edu/18623 LCA Stata Plugin (Version 1.2) [Software]. (2015). University Park: The Methodology Center, Penn State. Retrieved from methodology.psu.edu. Lanza, S. T., J. J. Dziak, L. Huang, A. T. Wagner, & L. M. Collins. (2015). LCA Stata plugin users' guide (Version 1.2). University Park, Penn State, PA: The Methodology Center, Penn State. https://methodology.psu.edu/downloads/lcastata. 25
Appendix C: Comparison Charts
Explanation of Comparison Charts
The following series of tables provides detailed data about community characteristics for reference. In each section, key characteristics are reported for the overall population on the top row, as well as for subgroups of the population, with each appearing in a row below. All rows are identical throughout the document.
Each column reports on one of the variables of interest, showing the proportion of adult Jews or Jewish households (depending upon the question) who fall into the category indicated. In some cases, a complementary column is elided for the sake of saving space (i.e., those with children, but not those without). Where areas of the document are solid black, the question was not applicable for the particular subgroup indicated by the row header. Where areas are colored light gray and numbers appear, there is a statistically significant difference between the subgroups. A double dash “--” indicates a category with fewer than 20 responses.
Notes: The procedure for generating the subgroup characteristics for these charts is different from that used in the main body of the report; as such, there may be minor differences due to rounding, which should be disregarded. Additionally, the overall rows in these tables do not necessarily match those given elsewhere in the report because they are based only on the subset of Jewish adults who provided sufficient information for assignment of a Jewish engagement category.
Selected subgroups are defined as follows:
Overall: All Jewish adults or all Jewish households.
Engagement Groups: See chapter 3 for an explanation of the engagement groups.
Geography: Individuals or households living in Squirrel Hill; the remainder of the city of Pittsburgh; the South Hills; the North Hills; and the remainder of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington, and Westmoreland counties (see Table 2.9 in the main report for more information).
Denomination: For respondent-level variables, if the respondent identifies as Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, some other denomination, or no denomination. For household-level variables, Orthodox households include at least one Orthodox-identifying adult; Conservative households include at least one Conservative-identifying adult, but no Orthodox adults; Reform households include at least one Reform-identifying adult, but no Orthodox or Conservative adults; “Other” households include at least one adult identifying with another denomination, but no Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform adults; and “None” households include only adults who say they are secular, culturally, or “just” Jewish.
Respondent Age: The age of the respondent.
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Synagogue Membership: If the respondent or household belongs to a local, Greater Pittsburgh- area synagogue or no synagogue.
Marriage Status: For respondent-level variables, Unmarried are respondents who are not living with a spouse, fiancé/e, or significant other. Inmarried are Jewish respondents living with a Jewish spouse, fiancé/e, or significant other. Intermarried are Jewish respondents living with a non-Jewish spouse, fiancé/e, or significant other. For household-level variables, Unmarried are households with no coupled individual. Inmarried are households containing two Jews in a romantic relationship. Intermarried are households containing a Jew and non-Jew in a romantic relationship.
Children: For respondent-level variables, if the respondent is a parent of a minor child. For household-level variables, if there are any minor children in the household.
Length of Residence: If the respondent has lived in Greater Pittsburgh for less than 10 years; 10- 19 years; or 20 years or more. 27
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Male Female Else Something 18 Resp. Age 35 Resp. Age 50 Resp. Age 65+ Resp. Age
Overall 47% 52% 1% 24% 17% 31% 28%
Immersed 58% 42% 1% 34% 15% 27% 23% Connected 46% 53% 1% 21% 17% 29% 33% Involved 43% 56% <1% 23% 18% 23% 36% Holiday 54% 45% 1% 38% 14% 31% 17% Minimally Involved 38% 62% 0% 6% 24% 50% 20%
Squirrel Hill 52% 48% <1% 29% 15% 26% 31% Rest of Pittsburgh 45% 54% 1% 27% 24% 20% 30% South Hills 23% 77% <1% 23% 10% 47% 20% North Hills 60% 40% 0% 15% 22% 40% 23% Rest of Region 59% 40% <1% 18% 18% 29% 35%
Orthodox 65% 35% 0% 31% 23% 28% 18% Conservative 51% 49% <1% 30% 9% 34% 27% Reform 44% 55% 1% 19% 19% 28% 35% Other 56% 42% 2% 26% 14% 39% 21% None 41% 59% 0% 23% 22% 28% 27%
Resp. Age 18-34 55% 44% 1% Resp. Age 35-49 39% 60% 1% Resp. Age 50-64 38% 62% <1% Resp. Age 65+ 53% 47% 0%
Non-Member 45% 54% <1% 27% 20% 28% 25% Local Member 51% 49% <1% 18% 15% 32% 35%
Unmarried 36% 63% 1% 37% 7% 32% 24% Inmarried 53% 47% <1% 15% 19% 30% 36% Intermarried 53% 47% <1% 24% 34% 23% 19%
No Kids 47% 53% <1% 24% 8% 34% 35% Kids 49% 51% <1% 25% 62% 12% 1%
< 10 years 58% 41% 1% 70% 16% 9% 5% 10-19 years 45% 55% 1% 24% 41% 23% 13% 20 + years 45% 55% <1% 14% 15% 35% 36%
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Less than BA/BS than Less BA/BS Degree Graduate Is a Parent has minor HH No Children is Couple, HH Adult Multiple includes HH Generations Roommates or Adult is Single HH
Overall 16% 28% 56% 18% 18% 31% 14% 36%
Immersed 13% 32% 55% 21% 20% 40% 13% 27% Connected 14% 31% 55% 19% 13% 39% 9% 39% Involved 20% 27% 53% 14% 13% 23% 6% 57% Holiday 16% 28% 55% 15% 8% 18% 23% 50% Minimally Involved 11% 12% 77% 25% 16% 9% 3% 71%
Squirrel Hill 9% 29% 62% 23% 17% 26% 11% 46% Rest of Pittsburgh 16% 28% 56% 19% 18% 31% 6% 46% South Hills 23% 26% 52% 11% 6% 14% 5% 75% North Hills 3% 27% 70% 29% 25% 36% 12% 27% Rest of Region 26% 28% 46% 11% 12% 30% 25% 33%
Orthodox 18% 37% 45% 27% 28% 25% 22% 26% Conservative 20% 31% 49% 12% 11% 37% 12% 40% Reform 11% 32% 56% 19% 11% 30% 14% 44% Other 38% 19% 43% 8% 9% 19% 3% 69% None 13% 19% 69% 23% 19% 18% 5% 58%
Resp. Age 18-34 29% 30% 42% 20% 18% 22% 16% 44% Resp. Age 35-49 7% 24% 70% 66% 67% 13% 4% 15% Resp. Age 50-64 9% 29% 61% 8% 7% 20% 14% 58% Resp. Age 65+ 16% 25% 59% <1% 1% 38% 5% 55%
Non-Member 15% 25% 60% 17% 13% 23% 9% 55% Local Member 16% 31% 53% 21% 18% 38% 13% 31%
Unmarried 29% 29% 42% 4% 4% 5% 91% Inmarried 8% 29% 62% 23% 23% 67% 10% Intermarried 7% 22% 71% 35% 32% 44% 25%
No Kids 18% 29% 53% Kids 4% 21% 75%
< 10 years 10% 30% 60% 29% 17% 34% 14% 34% 10-19 years 13% 26% 61% 34% 28% 24% 8% 40% 20 + years 17% 27% 56% 14% 13% 25% 9% 53% 29
Demographics (3/5) Rest of Pittsburgh of Rest HH in Squirrel Hill in Squirrel HH in HH in South Hills HH in North Hills HH Region of in Rest HH Resp. is Unmarried Resp. is Inmarried Resp. is Intermarried Rate Intermarriage
Overall 26% 31% 20% 9% 14% 35% 46% 19% 29%
Immersed 51% 32% 7% 5% 5% 27% 61% 12% 17% Connected 26% 40% 11% 8% 15% 22% 66% 11% 15% Involved 35% 28% 21% 7% 9% 39% 41% 20% 33% Holiday 14% 18% 27% 10% 31% 48% 27% 25% 48% Minimally Involved 8% 28% 42% 5% 17% 51% 8% 41% 84%
Squirrel Hill 30% 59% 10% 15% Rest of Pittsburgh 30% 37% 32% 47% South Hills 60% 29% 11% 26% North Hills 20% 54% 26% 32% Rest of Region 30% 52% 18% 26%
Orthodox 78% 11% 4% 1% 5% 35% 62% 4% 6% Conservative 23% 35% 18% 7% 17% 33% 50% 17% 25% Reform 31% 30% 14% 10% 16% 25% 58% 17% 22% Other 20% 30% 5% 4% 41% 56% 27% 18% 40% None 23% 30% 33% 6% 8% 42% 30% 28% 48%
Resp. Age 18-34 24% 37% 18% 5% 16% 52% 29% 19% 40% Resp. Age 35-49 27% 45% 10% 9% 9% 14% 48% 38% 44% Resp. Age 50-64 21% 18% 37% 8% 16% 38% 47% 15% 24% Resp. Age 65+ 37% 32% 13% 7% 11% 29% 58% 13% 19%
Non-Member 25% 30% 25% 7% 14% 41% 33% 27% 45% Local Member 36% 31% 12% 8% 14% 24% 69% 7% 9%
Unmarried 28% 27% 30% 5% 9% Inmarried 37% 24% 12% 10% 17% Intermarried 17% 44% 8% 10% 22%
No Kids 28% 29% 23% 6% 14% 41% 44% 15% 26% Kids 32% 36% 9% 12% 11% 7% 57% 36% 39%
< 10 years 33% 40% 6% 5% 15% 26% 50% 24% 33% 10-19 years 37% 40% 10% 9% 4% 30% 41% 29% 42% 20 + years 26% 27% 25% 7% 15% 37% 46% 17% 27% 30
Demographics
(4/5) Orthodox Conservative Reform Other No Denomination Immersed Connected Involved Holiday Involved Minimally
Overall 9% 22% 34% 5% 30% 16% 29% 29% 12% 13%
Immersed 46% 32% 15% 3% 3% Connected 2% 28% 54% 7% 8% Involved 1% 9% 31% 3% 56% Holiday 2% 41% 29% 3% 25% Minimally Involved 0% <1% 11% 7% 81%
Squirrel Hill 24% 15% 29% 4% 28% 33% 27% 28% 8% 4% Rest of Pittsburgh 3% 26% 29% 7% 35% 15% 35% 25% 8% 16% South Hills 2% 23% 24% 1% 50% 8% 19% 34% 12% 26% North Hills 2% 20% 54% 3% 21% 9% 36% 30% 15% 10% Rest of Region 5% 27% 39% 6% 22% 7% 35% 25% 19% 13%
Orthodox 86% 7% 4% 2% 0% Conservative 26% 40% 11% 22% <1% Reform 8% 51% 27% 10% 5% Other 12% 43% 16% 7% 21% None 2% 8% 48% 9% 33%
Resp. Age 18-34 12% 27% 24% 5% 31% 25% 26% 28% 18% 3% Resp. Age 35-49 12% 11% 33% 4% 40% 15% 29% 29% 9% 18% Resp. Age 50-64 9% 25% 30% 6% 30% 16% 28% 22% 12% 22% Resp. Age 65+ 6% 21% 39% 3% 31% 14% 34% 35% 7% 10%
Non-Member 2% 18% 28% 4% 48% 4% 17% 43% 16% 21% Local Member 22% 28% 40% 5% 5% 40% 53% 3% 4% 0%
Unmarried 9% 21% 23% 7% 39% 14% 20% 32% 15% 19% Inmarried 12% 24% 40% 3% 21% 23% 43% 25% 7% 2% Intermarried 2% 19% 28% 4% 47% 11% 18% 29% 14% 28%
No Kids 8% 24% 32% 5% 31% 17% 30% 30% 12% 12% Kids 14% 13% 32% 2% 39% 20% 32% 21% 9% 18%
< 10 years 8% 26% 38% 4% 24% 27% 35% 20% 16% 2% 10-19 years 13% 9% 35% 5% 38% 19% 27% 34% 6% 14% 20 + years 9% 22% 31% 5% 33% 15% 30% 29% 11% 15%
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Demographics Religions
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Jew by Religion by Jew Religion by not Jew of Multiple Jew Republican Democrat Independent Other Ashkenazi Jewish Ethnicity: HH or Sephardic Jewish Ethnicity: HH Mizrahi Individual has LGBTQ HH of Color has Person HH Citizen Has Israeli HH Country of Other has Citizen HH
Overall 82% 12% 6% 11% 65% 17% 7% 90% 15% 3% 2% 3% 7%
Immersed 100% <1% <1% 17% 55% 22% 6% 97% 6% 3% 3% 8% 5% Connected 97% 1% 2% 8% 77% 8% 8% 90% 14% 4% 2% 4% 6% Involved 76% 18% 7% 13% 70% 9% 8% 85% 17% 8% 6% 4% 6% Holiday 89% 10% 2% 17% 68% 14% 2% 97% 4% 2% 2% 1% 3% Minimally Involved 29% 37% 33% 10% 53% 34% 2% 96% 4% 2% 1% <1% 4%
Squirrel Hill 88% 9% 3% 11% 75% 9% 5% 97% 5% 5% 4% 6% 6% Rest of Pittsburgh 78% 18% 4% 5% 74% 14% 7% 91% 12% 8% 3% 4% 8% South Hills 72% 4% 24% 7% 53% 35% 5% 83% 19% 1% 1% 3% 2% North Hills 84% 11% 4% 14% 66% 17% 3% 94% 9% 0% 4% 2% 7% Rest of Region 88% 10% 2% 33% 49% 9% 8% 94% 8% 6% 6% 1% 2%
Orthodox 100% 0% 0% 29% 45% 18% 8% 99% 7% 4% 2% 14% 7% Conservative 100% <1% 0% 14% 66% 17% 3% 90% 9% 2% 1% 3% 3% Reform 95% 3% 2% 6% 78% 9% 7% 97% 7% 4% 3% 1% 5% Other 91% 6% 3% 23% 58% 3% 15% 99% 1% 9% 1% 3% 8% None 51% 30% 19% 10% 62% 22% 6% 86% 17% 6% 6% 4% 6%
Resp. Age 18-34 89% 7% 4% 10% 65% 17% 8% 78% 27% 11% 6% 3% 4% Resp. Age 35-49 74% 22% 4% 11% 70% 15% 5% 98% 7% 8% 6% 5% 8% Resp. Age 50-64 78% 7% 15% 16% 60% 21% 4% 97% 3% 3% 2% 4% 6% Resp. Age 65+ 84% 13% 3% 12% 75% 9% 3% 92% 9% 1% 2% 3% 4%
Non-Member 72% 17% 11% 12% 63% 18% 7% 92% 11% 6% 4% 3% 6% Local Member 98% 1% <1% 13% 73% 10% 4% 91% 11% 2% 2% 5% 5%
Unmarried 80% 7% 13% 13% 59% 21% 7% 88% 14% 4% 2% 3% 3% Inmarried 90% 8% 3% 14% 69% 11% 6% 96% 8% 4% 4% 6% 8% Intermarried 68% 27% 6% 8% 72% 17% 4% 96% 4% 6% 6% 2% 10%
No Kids 83% 9% 8% 13% 66% 15% 6% 91% 11% 4% 2% 3% 5% Kids 76% 21% 3% 10% 70% 14% 5% 97% 8% 7% 12% 5% 10%
< 10 years 87% 11% 3% 6% 61% 20% 12% 96% 16% 6% 5% 6% 10% 10-19 years 80% 10% 10% 12% 68% 14% 5% 97% 7% 11% 7% 9% 13% 20 + years 81% 12% 8% 14% 68% 14% 4% 90% 10% 4% 3% 2% 4%
32 as a as
Jewish
Background
Converted of Intermarriage Child of Inmarriage Child Raised Jewish Religion Other + Raised Jewish Religion Raised No Religion Raised Other School Jewish Attended Child
Overall 7% 18% 74% 75% 8% 5% 12% 59%
Immersed 6% 7% 87% 91% 1% 2% 6% 83% Connected 4% 6% 90% 93% 2% 2% 4% 57% Involved 6% 21% 73% 71% 13% 8% 8% 57% Holiday 4% 21% 75% 82% 2% 2% 13% 63% Minimally Involved 9% 53% 38% 34% 19% 9% 38% 21%
Squirrel Hill 4% 9% 87% 89% 2% 4% 5% 62% Rest of Pittsburgh 3% 19% 78% 79% 11% 6% 4% 55% South Hills 4% 43% 53% 52% 18% 4% 25% 58% North Hills 9% 8% 83% 83% 0% 7% 10% 56% Rest of Region 12% 14% 75% 77% 1% 3% 19% 57%
Orthodox 4% 7% 89% 91% <1% 4% 5% 84% Conservative 2% 6% 92% 93% <1% 1% 6% 73% Reform 9% 10% 82% 87% 1% 3% 8% 52% Other 21% 14% 65% 73% <1% 4% 23% 65% None 2% 38% 59% 55% 20% 9% 16% 45%
Resp. Age 18-34 2% 34% 64% 74% 15% 4% 7% 68% Resp. Age 35-49 9% 25% 66% 66% 16% 10% 8% 48% Resp. Age 50-64 9% 16% 75% 73% 1% 4% 22% 53% Resp. Age 65+ 4% 3% 94% 92% 1% 3% 4% 59%
Non-Member 6% 26% 68% 69% 11% 6% 14% 53% Local Member 5% 5% 90% 92% 1% 2% 5% 65%
Unmarried 6% 32% 62% 66% 10% 4% 19% 56% Inmarried 7% 5% 88% 89% 1% 3% 7% 63% Intermarried 1% 24% 74% 72% 16% 10% 3% 49%
No Kids 6% 16% 78% 79% 5% 4% 12% 61% Kids 3% 25% 71% 71% 14% 9% 6% 45%
< 10 years 3% 16% 81% 87% 3% 5% 4% 67% 10-19 years 14% 20% 66% 69% 4% 13% 14% 50% 20 + years 5% 19% 76% 76% 8% 4% 12% 57%
19
- 33
Residence
as Child of Any Age in other other in Age of as Child Any Greater other in as Parents Lived in Greater Pittsburgh < 10 Pittsburgh in Greater Lived years 10 Pittsburgh in Greater Lived years + 20 Pittsburgh in Greater Lived years Pittsburgh Greater Leave to Plans Years Three within Home Owns H Household Pittsburgh Greater H Household Pittsburgh
Overall 17% 9% 73% 18% 81% 28% 35%
Immersed 26% 10% 64% 22% 73% 23% 18% Connected 19% 9% 72% 9% 85% 34% 26% Involved 12% 12% 76% 19% 84% 32% 44% Holiday 25% 6% 70% 33% 68% 15% 22% Minimally Involved 3% 11% 86% 6% 92% 22% 60%
Squirrel Hill 23% 12% 65% 18% 74% 33% 24% Rest of Pittsburgh 21% 12% 67% 12% 79% 25% 28% South Hills 5% 6% 89% 30% 96% 15% 62% North Hills 9% 12% 79% 10% 89% 26% 40% Rest of Region 17% 4% 79% 12% 79% 38% 30%
Orthodox 15% 13% 72% 30% 67% 24% 21% Conservative 21% 4% 75% 20% 78% 21% 20% Reform 20% 11% 69% 11% 84% 40% 29% Other 14% 10% 76% 14% 81% 45% 22% None 13% 12% 76% 17% 85% 19% 54%
Resp. Age 18-34 48% 9% 43% 46% 52% 2% 41% Resp. Age 35-49 15% 23% 62% 5% 88% 2% 59% Resp. Age 50-64 5% 8% 87% 12% 94% 22% 40% Resp. Age 65+ 3% 5% 93% 5% 89% 55% 10%
Non-Member 19% 10% 71% 19% 81% 24% 40% Local Member 13% 10% 78% 11% 84% 36% 25%
Unmarried 13% 8% 79% 32% 66% 28% 37% Inmarried 19% 9% 73% 8% 88% 34% 34% Intermarried 22% 15% 63% 11% 92% 16% 37%
No Kids 15% 8% 77% 19% 79% 31% 31% Kids 27% 18% 55% 6% 91% 6% 61%
< 10 years 27% 57% 9% 9% 10-19 years 18% 87% 17% 21% 20 + years 14% 86% 32% 44% 34
Young Adults Very Dating, -
Childless, Very Important Important Very Childless, Student Among Non Jewish Date to Important Very Unmarried, Among Jewish Marry to Important Among Jewish Children to Raise
Overall 23% 24% 26% 53%
Immersed 18% 91% 91% 97% Connected 19% 12% 17% 73% Involved 40% 5% 4% 10% Holiday 22% 38% 43% 56% Minimally Involved 4% 0% 0% 0%
Squirrel Hill 15% 52% 58% 63% Rest of Pittsburgh 18% 16% 16% 56% South Hills 65% 3% 5% 9% North Hills 16% 16% 17% 84% Rest of Region 11% 63% 60% 83%
Orthodox 18% 94% 94% 95% Conservative 11% 58% 56% 90% Reform 18% 11% 14% 59% Other 49% 2% 7% 52% None 31% 2% 4% 10%
Resp. Age 18-34 Resp. Age 35-49 Resp. Age 50-64 Resp. Age 65+
Non-Member 26% 18% 19% 46% Local Member 16% 66% 65% 84%
Unmarried 46% 51% Inmarried 11% 62% Intermarried 3% 56%
No Kids 33% Kids 5%
< 10 years 21% 21% 24% 59% 10-19 years 23% 23% 28% 41% 20 + years 24% 37% 35% 54% 35
School: School: School: School: School: School: - - - - -
Pre Child in in Child
Jewish
Eligible Child in in Child Eligible in Child Eligible Eligible in Child Eligible Time School Time
Education - - - - - School (1/2) -
HH has Age HH Pre Jewish Pre No Jewish for Reason Cost No Jewish for Reason Transportation or Location Pre No Jewish for Reason ofLack Interest Pre No Jewish for Reason Fit No Good Pre No Jewish for Reason Other Reason has Age HH Part Jewish has Age HH Day School Jewish has Age HH Classes Jewish Private
Overall 33% 10% 16% 57% 7% 16% 27% 12% 15%
Immersed 64% 52% 9% 6% 12% 58% 57% 33% 36% Connected 32% 21% 62% 31% 7% 36% 41% 9% 17% Involved ------3% 2% 3% Holiday ------40% 7% 12% Minimally Involved ------
Squirrel Hill 46% 25% 26% 45% 6% 31% 28% 22% 15% Rest of Pittsburgh 37% 2% 3% 79% 2% 11% 13% 8% 8% South Hills 55% 51% 10% 21% 3% 20% 37% 1% 14% North Hills 30% 41% 65% 0% 10% 36% 39% 1% 17% Rest of Region ------24% 2% 16%
Orthodox 54% 55% 15% 8% 13% 64% 28% 46% 29% Conservative 29% 16% 43% 25% 10% 18% 31% 8% 14% Reform 71% 18% 39% 17% 4% 30% 40% 5% 17% Other 30% 0% 0% 58% 0% 42% 56% 8% 30% None 24% 9% 3% 79% 1% 12% 14% 5% 7%
Resp. Age 18-34 34% 36% 35% 21% 5% 23% ------Resp. Age 35-49 54% 3% 5% 79% 3% 15% 29% 14% 13% Resp. Age 50-64 ------0% 28% 5% 19% Resp. Age 65+ ------100% ------
Non-Member 40% 12% 9% 63% 3% 14% 8% 9% 5% Local Member 51% 24% 45% 36% 7% 39% 53% 14% 25%
Unmarried ------32% 9% 11% Inmarried 40% 28% 34% 20% 9% 34% 29% 14% 17% Intermarried 38% 6% 5% 79% 1% 10% 19% 3% 11%
No Kids Kids
< 10 years 38% 29% 32% 32% 8% 31% 38% 16% 23% 10-19 years 49% 14% 25% 17% 8% 26% 35% 19% 19% 20 + years 47% 8% 6% 77% 1% 12% 23% 7% 11%
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Jewish Education
Eligible Child in in Child Eligible in Child Eligible in Child Eligible Who Child Eligible for Other Activity Other for - - - -
(2/2) Age
Appropriate Option Appropriate - HH has HH Day Camp Jewish has Age HH Camp Overnight Jewish Cost Camp: No Jewish for Reason No Camp: No Jewish for Reason Age Lack Camp: No Jewish for Reason of Interest Camp: No Jewish for Reason Preference Camp: No Jewish for Reason Other Reason has Age HH Group Youth Jewish has Age HH Israel to Trip Peer on Went
Overall 29% 17% 26% 1% 45% 56% 20% 22% 19%
Immersed 57% 38% 40% 3% 20% 30% 31% 46% 33% Connected 22% 20% 39% 2% 29% 37% 23% 32% 35% Involved 14% 14% 17% 30% 34% 66% 15% -- -- Holiday 15% 0% 69% 6% 74% 54% 5% 14% -- Minimally Involved ------
Squirrel Hill 46% 33% 11% 1% 48% 43% 17% 20% 23% Rest of Pittsburgh 28% 19% 65% 1% 45% 26% 19% 9% 7% South Hills 20% 18% 44% 0% 41% 56% 22% 31% 12% North Hills 15% 12% 19% 4% 48% 61% 17% 36% 29% Rest of Region 3% 7% 19% 54% 6% 67% ------
Orthodox 63% 40% 22% 0% 15% 7% 70% 26% 21% Conservative 28% 23% 60% 4% 32% 33% 15% 35% 36% Reform 19% 17% 33% 2% 44% 43% 15% 26% 15% Other 15% 32% 57% 0% 23% 48% 28% 31% 64% None 24% 17% 15% 23% 36% 62% 16% 9% 10%
Resp. Age 18-34 ------Resp. Age 35-49 29% 19% 34% 2% 42% 45% 17% 21% 11% Resp. Age 50-64 32% 31% 21% 1% 48% 44% 19% 25% 23% Resp. Age 65+ ------
Non-Member 24% 15% 20% 20% 41% 60% 14% 10% 13% Local Member 30% 24% 44% 3% 29% 36% 23% 37% 27%
Unmarried 38% 36% 22% 3% 61% 45% 22% 16% 13% Inmarried 29% 23% 15% 33% 28% 68% 18% 31% 25% Intermarried 13% 5% 41% <1% 36% 38% 15% 11% 10%
No Kids Kids
< 10 years 40% 10% 20% 0% 24% 27% 28% -- -- 10-19 years 32% 22% 20% 1% 47% 36% 28% 21% 24% 20 + years 25% 23% 31% 19% 36% 59% 12% 25% 18%
37
Synagogues Congregations: mer Members, Last Last Members, mer (1/2)
29 -
HH Current Synagogue Member Synagogue Current HH Members, Among Synagogue Congregations: of Local Number None Members, Among Synagogue of Local Number One Members, Among Synagogue Congregations: of Local Number Multiple Member Synagogue Former HH Last Members, Among Former in Synagogue to Belonged Pittsburgh Greater Last Members, Among Former when Synagogue to Belonged 18 Age: Among For when Synagogue to Belonged 30s Age: Last Members, Among Former when Synagogue to Belonged 40s Age:
Overall 35% 19% 73% 8% 26% 81% 10% 29% 32%
Immersed 94% 22% 63% 15% 4% 76% 48% 29% 11% Connected 63% 8% 86% 5% 24% 66% 18% 21% 16% Involved 4% 25% 72% 2% 37% 85% 12% 14% 35% Holiday 21% 68% 30% 2% 41% 80% 20% 43% 25% Minimally Involved 0% 21% 87% 8% 11% 51%
Squirrel Hill 36% 9% 74% 17% 27% 70% 17% 12% 28% Rest of Pittsburgh 36% 29% 67% 3% 21% 78% 28% 24% 16% South Hills 37% 14% 78% 8% 29% 95% 8% 50% 23% North Hills 32% 7% 83% 10% 28% 86% 4% 14% 53% Rest of Region 36% 29% 68% 2% 40% 79% 7% 10% 42%
Orthodox 88% 4% 69% 27% 11% 100% 0% 0% 70% Conservative 55% 34% 60% 6% 33% 87% 13% 39% 27% Reform 39% 11% 85% 4% 27% 73% 15% 12% 33% Other 22% 6% 90% 4% 55% 98% 23% 16% 50% None 4% 20% 73% 7% 21% 76% 14% 18% 23%
Resp. Age 18-34 35% 60% 35% 5% 10% 54% 90% 10% 0% Resp. Age 35-49 25% 2% 91% 7% 23% 70% 15% 45% 40% Resp. Age 50-64 25% 8% 77% 14% 33% 91% 7% 23% 41% Resp. Age 65+ 36% 7% 85% 8% 30% 88% 1% 7% 24%
Non-Member Local Member
Unmarried 21% 13% 77% 10% 30% 86% 19% 31% 31% Inmarried 54% 7% 82% 11% 29% 78% 8% 15% 29% Intermarried 30% 59% 39% 2% 16% 72% 26% 11% 35%
No Kids 31% 21% 70% 9% 28% 81% 13% 17% 32% Kids 34% 9% 83% 7% 16% 69% 27% 42% 21%
< 10 years 39% 48% 46% 5% 17% 21% 46% 33% 10% 10-19 years 32% 14% 80% 6% 27% 52% 13% 23% 47% 20 + years 30% 13% 77% 10% 28% 95% 11% 18% 31% 38
Synagogues or Former Former or (2/2) od Fit
Among Former Members, Last Last Members, Among Former when Synagogue to Belonged 50s Age: Last Members, Among Former when Synagogue to Belonged + 60 Age: Member Not Synagogue HH Not Reason a Not Member: Synagogue Priority Former or Not Reason Not Member: Synagogue Religious Former or Not Reason at Kids No Member: Synagogue Home Former or Not Reason Cost Member: Synagogue Former or Not Reason Haven't Member: Synagogue a Go Found Former or Not Reason Other Member: Synagogue
Overall 17% 12% 39% 25% 45% 12% 25% 17% 14%
Immersed 7% 5% 2% 25% 0% 36% 53% 34% 13% Connected 25% 20% 13% 36% 17% 25% 44% 33% 17% Involved 26% 13% 59% 34% 60% 14% 22% 23% 9% Holiday 12% 1% 38% 33% 29% 15% 36% 16% 31% Minimally Involved 15% 14% 79% 12% 41% 0% 5% 3% 12%
Squirrel Hill 27% 16% 37% 34% 55% 16% 24% 21% 6% Rest of Pittsburgh 18% 15% 42% 37% 55% 14% 28% 28% 7% South Hills 11% 9% 34% 11% 33% 6% 12% 8% 17% North Hills 18% 11% 41% 42% 47% 21% 26% 14% 15% Rest of Region 30% 11% 24% 17% 27% 8% 24% 10% 41%
Orthodox 27% 3% 1% 34% 11% 0% 19% 36% 4% Conservative 8% 13% 12% 26% 20% 23% 28% 24% 33% Reform 25% 16% 34% 37% 40% 17% 40% 21% 11% Other 4% 6% 23% 28% 19% 9% 9% 13% 53% None 32% 12% 75% 23% 57% 6% 13% 14% 7%
Resp. Age 18-34 0% 0% 56% 37% 56% 17% 31% 23% 8% Resp. Age 35-49 0% 0% 52% 24% 56% 17% 25% 23% 8% Resp. Age 50-64 25% 4% 41% 21% 26% 9% 13% 13% 26% Resp. Age 65+ 35% 33% 33% 31% 54% 11% 24% 18% 7%
Non-Member Local Member
Unmarried 8% 10% 49% 28% 41% 10% 18% 16% 15% Inmarried 33% 15% 17% 30% 34% 23% 30% 26% 21% Intermarried 17% 12% 54% 24% 65% 9% 28% 17% 5%
No Kids 24% 14% 41% 28% 42% 21% 17% 15% Kids 10% 1% 50% 25% 62% 28% 19% 12%
< 10 years 7% 5% 44% 44% 39% 17% 41% 24% 10% 10-19 years 12% 6% 42% 37% 38% 8% 16% 32% 11% 20 + years 25% 15% 42% 23% 46% 11% 20% 15% 15%
39
Ritual and
Religious Very Services, Life (1/2)
In Past Year, Attended Jewish Jewish Attended Year, PastIn Never Services: Jewish Attended Year, PastIn Monthly < Services: Jewish Attended Year, PastIn < Weekly Services: Jewish Attended Year, PastIn + Weekly Services: at Last When Comfortable Much Felt Very Services, at Last When Met Needs Spiritual Much Felt Very Services, at Last When from Disconnected Much Felt People Services Day Holy High Attended Whole Kippur: on Yom Fasted Day ofPart Kippur: on Yom Fasted Day not Could Kippur: on Yom Fasted Reasons Medical for not Did Kippur: on Yom Fasted
Overall 31% 46% 13% 11% 57% 25% 13% 52% 41% 15% 10% 34%
Immersed 0% 11% 37% 52% 89% 58% 5% 100% 82% 4% 12% 1% Connected 3% 73% 19% 5% 60% 29% 7% 95% 55% 20% 17% 8% Involved 48% 52% 1% 0% 37% 9% 20% 8% 21% 19% 6% 54% Holiday 36% 62% 2% 1% 36% 8% 24% 42% 39% 14% 19% 28% Minimally Involved 95% 5% 0% 0% 16% 6% 48% 0% 1% <1% 1% 98%
Squirrel Hill 22% 43% 12% 23% 62% 35% 8% 66% 58% 8% 8% 26% Rest of Pittsburgh 33% 45% 15% 7% 54% 26% 11% 52% 33% 13% 12% 42% South Hills 45% 45% 7% 3% 71% 19% 7% 30% 24% 23% 14% 39% North Hills 29% 58% 8% 5% 49% 25% 22% 57% 41% 17% 11% 31% Rest of Region 31% 47% 16% 5% 40% 22% 27% 51% 44% 14% 10% 32%
Orthodox 1% 17% 10% 72% 87% 75% 5% 93% 88% 1% 9% 2% Conservative 20% 48% 22% 11% 59% 22% 10% 74% 54% 12% 21% 14% Reform 18% 61% 18% 3% 58% 29% 9% 65% 46% 17% 13% 24% Other 31% 50% 16% 3% 50% 14% 31% 62% 42% 15% 8% 34% None 60% 37% 2% 1% 34% 5% 23% 13% 15% 14% 4% 67%
Resp. Age 18-34 11% 61% 16% 12% 66% 23% 14% 62% 53% 22% 7% 19% Resp. Age 35-49 34% 48% 9% 8% 49% 33% 14% 49% 42% 11% 8% 39% Resp. Age 50-64 40% 41% 8% 11% 55% 26% 13% 49% 39% 6% 11% 43% Resp. Age 65+ 39% 39% 12% 10% 54% 29% 13% 48% 31% 16% 16% 37%
Non-Member 46% 46% 7% 1% 42% 13% 20% 30% 31% 12% 9% 48% Local Member 4% 46% 23% 27% 73% 44% 5% 92% 60% 16% 15% 10%
Unmarried 35% 45% 8% 12% 59% 24% 16% 43% 34% 19% 14% 33% Inmarried 20% 51% 15% 13% 55% 29% 12% 68% 51% 12% 11% 26% Intermarried 50% 36% 13% 1% 53% 26% 11% 34% 30% 7% 6% 56%
No Kids 31% 46% 13% 10% 56% 26% 14% 52% 41% 14% 12% 34% Kids 31% 48% 11% 10% 57% 30% 11% 56% 44% 13% 9% 35%
< 10 years 14% 50% 27% 9% 60% 23% 8% 70% 58% 8% 8% 25% 10-19 years 29% 46% 13% 12% 45% 25% 15% 52% 38% 12% 9% 41% 20 + years 35% 45% 9% 11% 57% 28% 14% 49% 38% 15% 12% 35% 40
Ritual and
Had Shabbat Shabbat Had
Religious
Candles
Life (2/2)
HH Lights Shabbat Candles: Candles: Lights Shabbat HH Never Candles: Lights Shabbat HH Sometimes Candles: Lights Shabbat HH Usually Candles: Lights Shabbat HH Always in Participates Year, HH Typical In Seder Lights Year, HH Typical In Hanukkah Shabbat Had Month, PastIn Weeks Some Meal: Month, PastIn Week Every Meal: None Laws: Follows Kosher Some Laws: Follows Kosher At Home Laws: Follows Kosher the All Laws: Follows Kosher Time
Overall 61% 19% 8% 13% 71% 77% 17% 13% 60% 24% 4% 11%
Immersed 6% 15% 15% 65% 100% 99% 32% 62% 10% 24% 16% 50% Connected 53% 37% 6% 4% 97% 94% 20% 3% 63% 31% 3% 3% Involved 70% 16% 11% 2% 69% 67% 18% 3% 77% 20% 1% 2% Holiday 89% 7% 3% 1% 57% 97% 11% 10% 57% 14% 3% 25% Minimally Involved 98% 2% 0% 0% 8% 8% 0% 0% 96% 3% 0% 1%
Squirrel Hill 55% 19% 6% 20% 82% 73% 17% 26% 53% 15% 7% 25% Rest of Pittsburgh 67% 17% 4% 12% 75% 74% 17% 12% 69% 23% 3% 6% South Hills 68% 11% 17% 3% 43% 58% 35% 6% 57% 25% 5% 13% North Hills 71% 15% 6% 8% 71% 82% 13% 4% 74% 19% 4% 3% Rest of Region 72% 22% 3% 3% 55% 75% 14% 10% 63% 26% 2% 9%
Orthodox 10% 4% 7% 78% 99% 97% 10% 79% 7% 6% 8% 78% Conservative 58% 16% 7% 19% 81% 97% 23% 22% 33% 37% 11% 19% Reform 63% 28% 5% 4% 81% 77% 17% 4% 76% 20% 2% 2% Other 76% 16% 4% 3% 61% 59% 25% 5% 73% 16% 3% 8% None 78% 12% 9% 1% 44% 49% 19% 3% 79% 17% 1% 3%
Resp. Age 18-34 46% 18% 20% 16% 82% 93% 31% 26% 43% 35% 4% 19% Resp. Age 35-49 62% 17% 6% 15% 67% 71% 17% 14% 69% 12% 4% 15% Resp. Age 50-64 76% 13% 4% 7% 47% 60% 14% 12% 67% 14% 5% 14% Resp. Age 65+ 69% 20% 4% 8% 74% 67% 14% 8% 70% 20% 4% 6%
Non-Member 75% 13% 7% 6% 58% 63% 14% 7% 72% 19% 2% 7% Local Member 36% 29% 10% 26% 96% 94% 25% 26% 43% 24% 8% 24%
Unmarried 72% 12% 9% 6% 59% 59% 23% 17% 56% 23% 2% 19% Inmarried 41% 34% 7% 19% 88% 93% 20% 16% 59% 20% 7% 14% Intermarried 77% 10% 2% 12% 61% 74% 9% 9% 79% 19% 1% 2%
No Kids 67% 16% 7% 10% 67% 70% 18% 14% 60% 23% 4% 13% Kids 53% 25% 8% 14% 67% 78% 21% 15% 68% 14% 5% 13%
< 10 years 45% 21% 7% 26% 82% 91% 17% 23% 55% 27% 6% 12% 10-19 years 55% 27% 7% 11% 71% 77% 17% 16% 61% 17% 4% 18% 20 + years 70% 15% 7% 8% 64% 66% 19% 12% 63% 20% 4% 13%
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Jewish Life (1/3) Community
Understand Hebrew Understand
Can't Hebrew Some Understand Can Most Hebrew Understand Can a Much Very Jewish is Being Culture of: Matter a Much Very Jewish is Being Ethnicity of: Matter a Much Very Jewish is Being Religion of: Matter a Much Very Jewish is Being of: Matter Jewish: are who Friends Close None Jewish: are who Friends Close Some/Half Jewish: are who Friends Close Most/All Jewish Being What to Essential and Justice for Working Means: Equality
Overall 33% 61% 6% 54% 43% 39% 38% 6% 57% 37% 59%
Immersed 3% 74% 22% 62% 47% 75% 68% 10% 39% 51% 46% Connected 13% 84% 3% 71% 51% 47% 44% 5% 56% 39% 65% Involved 44% 54% 2% 49% 40% 25% 30% 3% 67% 30% 69% Holiday 28% 69% 3% 57% 42% 42% 33% 17% 54% 29% 57% Minimally Involved 76% 23% 1% 18% 44% 5% 2% 4% 73% 23% 34%
Squirrel Hill 22% 66% 12% 60% 52% 41% 46% 7% 52% 41% 63% Rest of Pittsburgh 28% 67% 5% 59% 36% 28% 31% 4% 55% 41% 61% South Hills 54% 45% 2% 41% 56% 51% 46% 4% 73% 24% 56% North Hills 28% 68% 4% 64% 47% 37% 38% 7% 56% 37% 56% Rest of Region 24% 74% 2% 44% 35% 45% 22% 14% 62% 24% 41%
Orthodox 3% 67% 30% 53% 58% 85% 67% 14% 38% 48% 30% Conservative 9% 85% 6% 66% 46% 50% 44% 10% 48% 42% 58% Reform 27% 71% 2% 64% 47% 43% 39% 6% 58% 37% 63% Other 29% 66% 6% 59% 42% 24% 35% 1% 55% 44% 76% None 57% 40% 3% 37% 40% 18% 24% 4% 71% 24% 56%
Resp. Age 18-34 25% 68% 6% 56% 30% 43% 50% 9% 48% 42% 59% Resp. Age 35-49 34% 58% 8% 52% 29% 31% 37% 5% 62% 32% 48% Resp. Age 50-64 34% 60% 6% 50% 56% 41% 34% 5% 60% 35% 56% Resp. Age 65+ 29% 66% 5% 61% 57% 37% 32% 7% 60% 32% 65%
Non-Member 42% 55% 3% 48% 40% 27% 28% 6% 64% 30% 57% Local Member 10% 79% 11% 66% 55% 60% 54% 8% 48% 44% 58%
Unmarried 44% 51% 5% 45% 50% 44% 42% 7% 61% 32% 60% Inmarried 19% 73% 8% 63% 49% 43% 43% 7% 55% 37% 58% Intermarried 32% 65% 3% 51% 29% 21% 18% 4% 60% 36% 50%
No Kids 31% 64% 5% 55% 48% 41% 39% 7% 59% 35% 59% Kids 29% 61% 10% 50% 35% 33% 31% 7% 56% 37% 50%
< 10 years 13% 78% 9% 57% 31% 33% 32% 8% 45% 47% 59% 10-19 years 30% 59% 11% 55% 34% 35% 38% 7% 54% 39% 62% 20 + years 34% 61% 5% 54% 50% 41% 39% 6% 62% 32% 56% 42 Not at Not at
Jewish Life (2/3)
omewhat S Somewhat
Essential to What Being Jewish Jewish Being What to Essential and a Moral Leading Means: Life Ethical Local about Concerned Somewhat Antisemitism: Local about Concerned Much Very Antisemitism: Experienced Personally Year in Past Antisemitism Israel: to Feels Connected All Israel: to Feels Connected A Little/ Very Israel: to Feels Connected Much Life: Daily of Part Jewish is Being All Not at Life: Daily of Part Jewish is Being A Little/ Life: Daily of Part Jewish is Being Much Very
Overall 81% 34% 16% 16% 17% 51% 33% 13% 60% 27%
Immersed 94% 27% 16% 21% 9% 28% 63% <1% 13% 87% Connected 79% 34% 20% 14% 9% 65% 26% 4% 70% 25% Involved 73% 21% 25% 16% 21% 47% 32% 17% 68% 15% Holiday 74% 36% 22% 9% 17% 48% 34% 19% 63% 18% Minimally Involved 90% 60% 7% 11% 36% 53% 11% 43% 56% 1%
Squirrel Hill 85% 27% 18% 8% 14% 48% 39% 11% 45% 44% Rest of Pittsburgh 81% 36% 16% 24% 29% 50% 21% 19% 56% 26% South Hills 75% 48% 12% 7% 10% 47% 43% 8% 75% 16% North Hills 78% 24% 19% 11% 16% 58% 26% 15% 65% 21% Rest of Region 82% 23% 37% 24% 8% 53% 39% 18% 55% 27%
Orthodox 93% 28% 14% 17% 2% 21% 77% 2% 6% 92% Conservative 83% 38% 24% 19% 10% 48% 42% 3% 54% 43% Reform 78% 26% 24% 12% 15% 63% 22% 11% 66% 23% Other 91% 21% 18% 41% 17% 43% 40% 5% 73% 22% None 77% 39% 12% 12% 27% 48% 25% 29% 62% 9%
Resp. Age 18-34 74% 15% 10% 20% 16% 44% 40% 9% 51% 39% Resp. Age 35-49 77% 39% 16% 14% 35% 43% 22% 22% 51% 27% Resp. Age 50-64 83% 47% 15% 16% 10% 54% 36% 7% 64% 28% Resp. Age 65+ 87% 29% 33% 10% 13% 54% 33% 21% 55% 24%
Non-Member 78% 33% 19% 15% 23% 50% 27% 20% 62% 18% Local Member 86% 32% 20% 14% 6% 50% 44% 3% 48% 49%
Unmarried 78% 36% 17% 13% 10% 48% 41% 8% 66% 26% Inmarried 83% 29% 23% 16% 12% 53% 35% 11% 52% 36% Intermarried 82% 34% 14% 17% 39% 46% 15% 30% 51% 19%
No Kids 81% 32% 20% 16% 14% 51% 36% 12% 58% 29% Kids 80% 35% 13% 12% 29% 47% 24% 22% 49% 28%
< 10 years 83% 17% 7% 20% 21% 56% 23% 13% 51% 36% 10-19 years 83% 34% 14% 10% 23% 50% 27% 12% 55% 32% 20 + years 80% 36% 22% 14% 15% 48% 36% 15% 58% 27%
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Overall 14% 60% 26% 29% 54% 18% 18% 55% 27%
Immersed 1% 38% 61% 2% 46% 52% <1% 38% 62% Connected 5% 67% 29% 9% 71% 20% 1% 69% 29% Involved 9% 74% 17% 36% 58% 6% 25% 59% 16% Holiday 8% 81% 12% 43% 54% 2% 8% 70% 22% Minimally Involved 67% 31% 3% 84% 15% <1% 70% 29% 1%
Squirrel Hill 4% 58% 37% 13% 55% 32% 7% 52% 40% Rest of Pittsburgh 15% 61% 24% 24% 62% 14% 16% 63% 21% South Hills 29% 55% 17% 58% 34% 8% 46% 40% 14% North Hills 12% 62% 26% 21% 66% 13% 13% 61% 26% Rest of Region 13% 70% 17% 45% 50% 5% 13% 63% 24%
Orthodox 2% 23% 75% 5% 35% 60% <1% 33% 66% Conservative 4% 70% 26% 18% 65% 17% 3% 66% 31% Reform 8% 65% 27% 17% 66% 17% 5% 63% 32% Other 25% 51% 24% 32% 51% 17% 5% 73% 22% None 27% 62% 11% 56% 40% 4% 47% 45% 7%
Resp. Age 18-34 2% 72% 26% 29% 54% 16% 17% 49% 34% Resp. Age 35-49 22% 55% 23% 29% 56% 15% 18% 57% 24% Resp. Age 50-64 22% 53% 26% 35% 47% 18% 21% 58% 21% Resp. Age 65+ 10% 62% 28% 22% 59% 18% 16% 55% 28%
Non-Member 19% 66% 15% 44% 50% 6% 27% 56% 16% Local Member 4% 51% 45% 5% 59% 36% 2% 54% 44%
Unmarried 21% 56% 23% 42% 43% 15% 26% 45% 29% Inmarried 5% 61% 34% 17% 59% 24% 8% 59% 32% Intermarried 22% 66% 12% 37% 59% 4% 27% 65% 8%
No Kids 12% 62% 26% 30% 53% 17% 18% 56% 26% Kids 22% 54% 24% 27% 54% 18% 18% 54% 28%
< 10 years 4% 71% 26% 22% 65% 13% 6% 71% 23% 10-19 years 7% 65% 28% 28% 54% 18% 11% 66% 23% 20 + years 17% 58% 26% 31% 51% 18% 22% 51% 28%
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Israel
(1/2) Israel: Never Israel:
ission Been to to Been Once Israel: to Been Times Multiple Israel: to Been There Lived Israel: to Been on: Gone Israel, to Among Been Birthright on: Gone Israel, to Among Been Program or Volunteer Education on: Gone Israel, to Among Been Org. Jewish or Federation M of: Because Israel to Been Never Concerns Safety of: Because Israel to Been Never Cost of: Because Israel to Been Never of It Thought Never of: Because Israel to Been Never No Interest of: Because Israel to Been Never Travel to Like Don't
Overall 41% 24% 28% 7% 40% 28% 32% 29% 43% 17% 18% 7%
Immersed 14% 21% 56% 9% 48% 43% 35% 24% 59% 5% 5% 11% Connected 33% 28% 33% 6% 56% 18% 50% 32% 39% 3% 10% 7% Involved 43% 20% 30% 7% 24% 11% 21% 31% 42% 4% 19% 5% Holiday 43% 32% 10% 15% 45% 39% 16% 15% 52% 5% 21% 6% Minimally Involved 84% 9% 4% 2% 74% 14% 22% 39% 42% 60% 11% 3%
Squirrel Hill 27% 22% 42% 9% 55% 31% 30% 27% 41% 2% 21% 10% Rest of Pittsburgh 42% 25% 27% 5% 61% 22% 40% 41% 44% 23% 15% 3% South Hills 47% 13% 29% 11% 16% 29% 21% 22% 23% 48% 8% 2% North Hills 43% 34% 19% 4% 15% 23% 39% 37% 41% 10% 15% 16% Rest of Region 56% 24% 16% 4% 11% 6% 44% 27% 66% 8% 12% 3%
Orthodox 18% 11% 60% 11% 18% 54% 20% 12% 57% 7% 5% 18% Conservative 29% 29% 30% 12% 57% 29% 37% 26% 36% 4% 9% 4% Reform 44% 29% 25% 2% 57% 17% 47% 32% 46% 3% 14% 6% Other 43% 26% 23% 7% 51% 29% 31% 58% 69% 1% 20% 3% None 51% 15% 26% 8% 31% 15% 21% 31% 40% 44% 16% 4%
Resp. Age 18-34 24% 27% 43% 6% 51% 26% 19% 13% 57% 0% 12% <1% Resp. Age 35-49 52% 19% 22% 8% 17% 26% 47% 57% 69% 34% 8% 2% Resp. Age 50-64 46% 19% 24% 11% 29% 40% 28% 31% 32% 11% 7% Resp. Age 65+ 39% 26% 31% 4% 18% 37% 27% 27% 6% 26% 9%
Non-Member 49% 23% 20% 7% 44% 19% 24% 32% 45% 25% 15% 4% Local Member 26% 21% 46% 7% 43% 32% 45% 29% 39% 4% 9% 10%
Unmarried 42% 21% 27% 9% 31% 34% 21% 22% 36% 30% 10% 4% Inmarried 35% 20% 38% 8% 50% 22% 45% 29% 45% 4% 17% 8% Intermarried 52% 31% 14% 3% 59% 15% 24% 47% 51% 31% 16% 3%
No Kids 40% 24% 30% 7% 45% 24% 33% 24% 36% 16% 15% 6% Kids 45% 17% 29% 9% 40% 27% 38% 58% 71% 34% 9% 2%
< 10 years 29% 30% 32% 9% 69% 20% 28% 21% 63% 2% 6% 1% 10-19 years 42% 20% 27% 11% 55% 31% 27% 26% 43% 3% 14% 1% 20 + years 43% 21% 30% 6% 18% 25% 36% 34% 40% 24% 15% 7%
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Pittsburgh Jewish Jewish Pittsburgh
Israel (2/2) Jewish Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Jewish Jewish Pittsburgh
News About Israel: Daily + Daily Israel: About News Have Relatives in Israel Have Relatives in Israel Have Friends Never Israel: About Seeks News < Israel: About Seeks News Weekly Daily < Israel: About Seeks News Seeks about Correct Partnership Israel Community's Region about Incorrect Partnership Israel Community's Region Jewish Pittsburgh Things Israel has no Community Region Partnership of Unsure Partnership Israel Community's Region
Overall 38% 34% 24% 28% 35% 13% 23% 25% 5% 46%
Immersed 53% 69% 7% 23% 36% 35% 55% 18% 9% 18% Connected 39% 33% 21% 29% 39% 11% 33% 31% 2% 34% Involved 42% 32% 22% 32% 33% 13% 17% 21% 5% 58% Holiday 39% 23% 43% 42% 11% 4% 1% 17% 9% 72% Minimally Involved 12% 7% 44% 12% 42% 2% 1% 32% 2% 65%
Squirrel Hill 44% 46% 25% 30% 24% 21% 35% 24% 10% 31% Rest of Pittsburgh 36% 38% 28% 27% 34% 12% 29% 20% 1% 49% South Hills 42% 32% 10% 24% 56% 9% 12% 37% 2% 49% North Hills 27% 19% 34% 29% 26% 11% 21% 21% 1% 57% Rest of Region 37% 19% 27% 33% 31% 9% 11% 20% 8% 61%
Orthodox 61% 72% 6% 27% 24% 43% 45% 15% 16% 24% Conservative 45% 37% 17% 31% 39% 12% 36% 22% 7% 36% Reform 32% 24% 28% 31% 30% 10% 23% 29% 5% 43% Other 34% 39% 19% 28% 39% 14% 25% 24% 0% 51% None 35% 32% 31% 24% 36% 9% 13% 24% 1% 62%
Resp. Age 18-34 44% 51% 30% 31% 33% 7% 26% 14% 11% 49% Resp. Age 35-49 34% 31% 36% 26% 24% 13% 30% 23% 2% 45% Resp. Age 50-64 40% 32% 17% 29% 39% 15% 27% 32% 1% 40% Resp. Age 65+ 37% 24% 20% 24% 36% 19% 17% 27% 6% 50%
Non-Member 33% 31% 28% 30% 32% 9% 16% 22% 4% 57% Local Member 48% 42% 18% 25% 36% 22% 39% 28% 5% 27%
Unmarried 36% 35% 18% 29% 45% 8% 13% 28% 11% 47% Inmarried 44% 39% 21% 31% 28% 21% 34% 25% 1% 40% Intermarried 29% 26% 43% 22% 28% 7% 20% 17% 2% 61%
No Kids 39% 35% 20% 29% 37% 14% 24% 24% 6% 46% Kids 35% 32% 42% 23% 20% 14% 27% 24% <1% 49%
< 10 years 32% 49% 31% 31% 26% 12% 27% 16% 2% 56% 10-19 years 40% 41% 25% 35% 26% 14% 32% 19% 2% 47% 20 + years 40% 31% 23% 27% 37% 14% 23% 27% 6% 44%
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Organizations & Programs
(1/3) Paying Member of JCC of Member Paying -
Member of JCC, No Dues No of JCC, Member Jewish to Dues Pays HH Dues HH HH Jewish to Belongs HH or Synagogue (Not Organization JCC) Jewish Informal to Belongs HH Group HH or JCC (Not Organization Synagogue) Year, PastIn in Jewish Attended/Participated or Class: Event, Program, + Monthly Year, PastIn in Jewish Attended/Participated or Class: Event, Program, < Monthly Jewish Read Year, PastIn Material: Organization's + Monthly Jewish Read Year, PastIn Material: Organization's < Monthly
Overall 20% 10% 32% 11% 21% 11% 34% 36% 32%
Immersed 19% 15% 45% 38% 32% 37% 39% 79% 17% Connected 18% 9% 54% 18% 37% 11% 53% 54% 33% Involved 26% 10% 42% 18% 32% 7% 38% 35% 58% Holiday 7% 6% 4% 3% 0% 0% <1% 0% 0% Minimally Involved 4% 4% 1% 0% 0% 2% 3% 0% 5%
Squirrel Hill 26% 14% 43% 25% 32% 19% 41% 49% 28% Rest of Pittsburgh 16% 9% 30% 17% 21% 14% 40% 45% 27% South Hills 21% 8% 28% 4% 22% 7% 23% 25% 32% North Hills 9% 3% 30% 13% 18% 4% 25% 33% 36% Rest of Region 3% 3% 23% 12% 13% 3% 24% 29% 33%
Orthodox 20% 15% 42% 21% 33% 22% 40% 77% 18% Conservative 12% 8% 37% 19% 26% 19% 33% 51% 22% Reform 16% 11% 44% 21% 30% 10% 43% 40% 35% Other 12% 4% 28% 22% 19% 9% 45% 45% 20% None 22% 7% 20% 7% 15% 6% 21% 21% 34%
Resp. Age 18-34 28% 9% 29% 27% 21% 18% 29% 38% 30% Resp. Age 35-49 25% 5% 17% 8% 10% 11% 34% 40% 28% Resp. Age 50-64 12% 2% 21% 8% 12% 10% 32% 38% 25% Resp. Age 65+ 12% 17% 49% 21% 38% 10% 40% 44% 34%
Non-Member 16% 8% 25% 15% 17% 8% 25% 27% 33% Local Member 20% 11% 54% 19% 41% 18% 49% 62% 24%
Unmarried 16% 9% 33% 14% 25% 8% 26% 29% 32% Inmarried 22% 11% 44% 17% 30% 14% 44% 51% 31% Intermarried 15% 5% 14% 17% 8% 13% 22% 31% 25%
No Kids 15% 9% 35% 16% 25% 12% 33% 41% 31% Kids 32% 9% 16% 14% 11% 12% 38% 35% 24%
< 10 years 19% 6% 25% 30% 12% 23% 37% 39% 26% 10-19 years 25% 8% 29% 12% 20% 19% 34% 43% 34% 20 + years 16% 10% 34% 13% 25% 8% 33% 39% 30%
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Organizations
& Programs in Volunteered (2/3)
Important Cause: Politics Cause: Important Jewish Org. Jewish
- In Past Month, Month, PastIn Org. Jewish for Role Leadership as Volunteered Month, PastIn Org. with Jewish Participant with Volunteered Month, PastIn Non Education Cause: Very Important & Arts Cause: Very Important Culture Israel Cause: Very Important Very Social Cause: Very Important Justice Cause: Very Important Health/Medicine Cause: Very Important Environment Women's Cause: Very Important Rights
Overall 15% 7% 28% 83% 61% 53% 59% 73% 79% 65% 72%
Immersed 35% 18% 32% 85% 53% 75% 44% 59% 78% 63% 56% Connected 26% 12% 36% 81% 61% 53% 67% 76% 75% 60% 79% Involved 9% 6% 36% 86% 71% 54% 64% 82% 83% 76% 80% Holiday 3% 1% 18% 65% 67% 50% 72% 74% 83% 76% 55% Minimally Involved <1% <1% 14% 84% 59% 30% 48% 57% 89% 57% 87%
Squirrel Hill 23% 11% 34% 85% 56% 51% 63% 79% 77% 71% 74% Rest of Pittsburgh 20% 10% 35% 84% 76% 50% 68% 82% 79% 74% 81% South Hills 9% 6% 16% 82% 58% 58% 43% 61% 88% 59% 76% North Hills 16% 5% 24% 86% 58% 55% 54% 65% 78% 55% 71% Rest of Region 8% 6% 34% 68% 61% 60% 63% 55% 81% 58% 58%
Orthodox 22% 13% 10% 93% 38% 93% 40% 51% 76% 53% 44% Conservative 26% 9% 33% 68% 62% 64% 62% 66% 80% 63% 59% Reform 19% 10% 35% 82% 59% 47% 67% 77% 79% 67% 79% Other 23% 16% 32% 67% 80% 30% 65% 96% 73% 84% 89% None 7% 5% 28% 88% 72% 46% 57% 73% 84% 68% 84%
Resp. Age 18-34 13% 8% 32% 73% 59% 50% 39% 71% 77% 75% 65% Resp. Age 35-49 20% 11% 22% 88% 66% 55% 62% 74% 80% 66% 79% Resp. Age 50-64 22% 9% 28% 78% 56% 52% 59% 63% 81% 56% 72% Resp. Age 65+ 14% 8% 37% 88% 70% 55% 77% 82% 86% 73% 82%
Non-Member 8% 6% 28% 80% 68% 46% 60% 71% 82% 69% 74% Local Member 31% 13% 34% 85% 55% 66% 61% 74% 78% 62% 73%
Unmarried 9% 9% 23% 79% 57% 54% 48% 71% 83% 66% 73% Inmarried 25% 10% 34% 84% 63% 58% 66% 72% 79% 64% 76% Intermarried 10% 4% 32% 80% 72% 43% 69% 72% 79% 73% 67%
No Kids 16% 8% 30% 82% 64% 54% 60% 72% 81% 66% 74% Kids 21% 10% 31% 81% 58% 51% 63% 70% 77% 66% 72%
< 10 years 17% 9% 38% 74% 59% 35% 53% 67% 68% 66% 67% 10-19 years 19% 12% 30% 80% 68% 47% 62% 72% 75% 66% 71% 20 + years 17% 8% 28% 83% 63% 59% 62% 73% 84% 66% 75%
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& Programs 20 Minutes 20 Minutes 40 Minutes 60 (3/3) - - - Internet/Social Media Internet/Social ogram: 41 ogram: Learn about Activities Learn about Organization or from: Synagogue News and Activities Learn about Chronicle The Jewish from: News and Activities Learn about Leader or Jewish from: Rabbi News and Activities Learn about Friends or from: Family News and Activities Learn about from: Jewish Attend to Time Travel Unwilling Program: Jewish Attend to Time Travel minutes 10 < Program: Jewish Attend to Time Travel 10 Program: Jewish Attend to Time Travel 21 Program: Jewish Attend to Time Travel Pr Jewish Attend to Time Travel + Hour 1 Program:
Overall 44% 32% 20% 56% 56% 17% 9% 36% 29% 7% 2%
Immersed 81% 48% 57% 70% 82% 2% 8% 44% 35% 6% 4% Connected 56% 51% 28% 59% 62% 4% 11% 41% 30% 12% 2% Involved 25% 29% 5% 41% 60% 20% 10% 37% 29% 3% 1% Holiday 18% 5% 2% 31% 53% 19% 10% 28% 32% 10% 1% Minimally Involved 29% 1% 0% 39% 33% 56% 7% 33% 3% 1% 1%
Squirrel Hill 44% 37% 24% 61% 67% 14% 18% 39% 22% 3% 3% Rest of Pittsburgh 39% 37% 26% 52% 71% 21% 8% 44% 19% 6% 1% South Hills 67% 21% 11% 47% 41% 8% 6% 40% 42% 3% 1% North Hills 36% 31% 17% 48% 59% 18% 2% 25% 47% 5% 2% Rest of Region 30% 29% 14% 31% 49% 26% 3% 28% 20% 21% 2%
Orthodox 74% 39% 49% 56% 76% 5% 14% 34% 33% 8% 6% Conservative 50% 45% 35% 46% 66% 6% 6% 41% 34% 12% 2% Reform 45% 37% 19% 60% 64% 8% 11% 42% 28% 8% 3% Other 38% 28% 11% 47% 57% 29% 5% 43% 21% 2% 0% None 32% 18% 4% 42% 48% 34% 10% 32% 21% 2% <1%
Resp. Age 18-34 50% 10% 18% 54% 61% 7% 14% 37% 36% 6% 1% Resp. Age 35-49 32% 28% 16% 51% 78% 24% 9% 39% 23% 4% 1% Resp. Age 50-64 52% 33% 23% 53% 58% 14% 8% 45% 27% 4% 2% Resp. Age 65+ 40% 54% 22% 46% 53% 24% 8% 33% 23% 9% 3%
Non-Member 27% 20% 7% 45% 56% 24% 9% 38% 24% 5% 1% Local Member 73% 55% 42% 60% 67% 5% 11% 38% 32% 10% 4%
Unmarried 47% 22% 13% 45% 53% 11% 7% 40% 35% 6% 2% Inmarried 47% 48% 28% 58% 62% 13% 11% 39% 26% 8% 3% Intermarried 31% 14% 14% 42% 67% 36% 10% 32% 16% 5% <1%
No Kids 45% 35% 20% 49% 58% 15% 7% 40% 28% 8% 2% Kids 40% 22% 21% 57% 72% 24% 20% 30% 22% 3% 1%
< 10 years 43% 14% 25% 62% 64% 10% 18% 44% 19% 9% 1% 10-19 years 31% 32% 18% 52% 65% 18% 9% 47% 22% 2% 3% 20 + years 46% 37% 19% 47% 59% 18% 8% 35% 29% 7% 2% 49
Jewish
Sought Jewish Jewish Sought Activities
Month, Studied Jewish Jewish Studied Month, In Past Month, Ate Jewish Foods: Foods: Jewish Ate Month, PastIn < Weekly Foods: Jewish Ate Month, PastIn + Weekly Jewish Discussed Month, PastIn Weekly < Topics: Jewish Discussed Month, PastIn + Weekly Topics: Month, PastIn < Weekly Online: Information Jewish Sought Month, PastIn + Weekly Online: Information Jewish Accessed Month, PastIn < Weekly Culture: Jewish Accessed Month, PastIn + Weekly Culture: Jewish Studied Month, PastIn Weekly < Text: PastIn + Weekly Text:
Overall 29% 39% 39% 47% 31% 34% 30% 19% 12% 13%
Immersed 17% 78% 15% 85% 24% 71% 25% 54% 25% 55% Connected 39% 31% 36% 59% 39% 33% 37% 14% 14% 5% Involved 38% 32% 49% 41% 31% 40% 42% 14% 8% 3% Holiday 30% 29% 48% 25% 35% 5% 13% 4% 1% 0% Minimally Involved 21% 3% 28% 10% 20% 3% 15% 1% 2% 2%
Squirrel Hill 32% 41% 35% 56% 28% 41% 34% 28% 12% 26% Rest of Pittsburgh 38% 32% 29% 56% 32% 32% 29% 19% 14% 8% South Hills 28% 54% 54% 38% 32% 46% 40% 14% 8% 8% North Hills 29% 24% 42% 35% 30% 24% 27% 9% 12% 4% Rest of Region 26% 32% 35% 45% 39% 30% 23% 12% 11% 5%
Orthodox 10% 85% 18% 81% 27% 67% 23% 60% 7% 81% Conservative 30% 53% 30% 64% 41% 32% 21% 16% 18% 9% Reform 38% 24% 42% 46% 32% 32% 37% 16% 12% 7% Other 42% 22% 21% 56% 43% 39% 24% 30% 26% 6% None 31% 28% 43% 33% 25% 32% 35% 11% 6% 2%
Resp. Age 18-34 29% 47% 45% 46% 25% 43% 29% 26% 16% 15% Resp. Age 35-49 31% 26% 31% 46% 32% 32% 31% 17% 9% 11% Resp. Age 50-64 36% 36% 36% 52% 44% 32% 31% 18% 13% 15% Resp. Age 65+ 32% 34% 30% 55% 28% 33% 34% 16% 9% 10%
Non-Member 33% 30% 42% 38% 30% 31% 30% 12% 10% 3% Local Member 31% 48% 27% 68% 34% 43% 33% 30% 15% 28%
Unmarried 29% 45% 46% 43% 35% 35% 36% 20% 8% 13% Inmarried 33% 40% 30% 60% 30% 41% 31% 22% 12% 15% Intermarried 32% 19% 37% 35% 30% 25% 22% 10% 16% 6%
No Kids 32% 40% 37% 52% 34% 36% 33% 19% 12% 12% Kids 31% 23% 35% 41% 24% 32% 22% 19% 9% 13%
< 10 years 31% 39% 37% 50% 22% 43% 21% 21% 19% 13% 10-19 years 35% 31% 42% 50% 38% 36% 36% 23% 15% 16% 20 + years 32% 38% 36% 50% 33% 34% 33% 18% 10% 12%
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Made Any Donation Made Any $100 < Gave Of Donors, Gave Of Donors, $2,500 Gave Of Donors, + $5,000 Gave Of Donors, Jewish Only to Donated Organizations One Jewish Least At to Donated Organization Local Only to Donated Organization Jewish Local One Least At to Donated Organizatio Jewish Focused Donation Maintain Next Year, Levels Donation Increase Next Year, Levels
Overall 93% 17% 53% 15% 15% 5% 76% 24% 63% 81% 15%
Immersed 95% 7% 53% 14% 26% 22% 94% 18% 87% 69% 28% Connected 94% 11% 49% 22% 17% 2% 89% 12% 64% 78% 17% Involved 90% 26% 53% 11% 10% 5% 71% 39% 58% 84% 13% Holiday 77% 12% 74% 7% 7% <1% 33% 28% 28% 84% 13% Minimally Involved 90% 41% 40% 6% 13% 0% 14% 8% 10% 89% 8%
Squirrel Hill 92% 10% 55% 12% 23% 14% 81% 20% 66% 80% 17% Rest of Pittsburgh 92% 20% 49% 21% 10% 2% 65% 18% 50% 73% 23% South Hills 91% 35% 44% 8% 13% 5% 72% 47% 65% 88% 10% North Hills 97% 6% 56% 18% 20% 3% 76% 12% 60% 80% 13% Rest of Region 80% 18% 65% 8% 9% 4% 53% 14% 43% 86% 12%
Orthodox 90% 6% 56% 12% 26% 38% 89% 27% 83% 77% 22% Conservative 89% 10% 53% 22% 14% 5% 75% 9% 56% 67% 28% Reform 92% 11% 57% 16% 17% 2% 78% 18% 64% 84% 12% Other 83% 3% 65% 13% 19% 0% 51% 15% 42% 87% 8% None 92% 36% 45% 8% 12% 3% 56% 39% 44% 84% 12%
Resp. Age 18-34 80% 31% 63% 4% 3% 13% 66% 36% 51% 72% 27% Resp. Age 35-49 91% 27% 54% 9% 10% 7% 59% 23% 47% 83% 15% Resp. Age 50-64 95% 7% 53% 16% 24% 4% 74% 21% 59% 80% 17% Resp. Age 65+ 95% 12% 43% 24% 21% 3% 79% 13% 66% 84% 9%
Non-Member 88% 24% 59% 8% 9% 3% 58% 29% 47% 81% 16% Local Member 94% 8% 43% 24% 25% 11% 91% 15% 73% 77% 17%
Unmarried 83% 29% 58% 7% 5% 9% 61% 37% 55% 82% 13% Inmarried 95% 9% 46% 22% 23% 6% 84% 15% 63% 79% 18% Intermarried 93% 21% 60% 7% 12% 2% 55% 20% 45% 78% 18%
No Kids 90% 16% 52% 15% 17% 6% 73% 23% 60% 79% 17% Kids 91% 24% 54% 11% 11% 7% 62% 14% 42% 82% 15%
< 10 years 82% 18% 71% 4% 7% 8% 63% 12% 44% 64% 33% 10-19 years 85% 12% 61% 10% 17% 9% 61% 18% 46% 78% 19% 20 + years 93% 18% 47% 17% 17% 6% 74% 24% 61% 83% 12% r o ing ing ing ing 51 Ag Ag or f iving iving Due to L for for for or have have e e nter nter nter , t lderly lderly Ce Ce Car Car E /Poor Health /Poor Health No iving or iving of HH in Pitt. Pitt. of HH in Health & of HH L es es es Fair have have Jewish Life Disability in Unable to Do Limited by by Limited Provides Care Provides Well-Being Member Household tside tside r er er ers er o Ou Ou ent, erly es e e emb emb emb emb Member M M M M Lives in Assisted in Assisted Lives Living Independent HH HH Insurance Health Manag Health Constraints Relativ HH in Local Assisted Parents Living Independent Non-Eld Participate in Provides/Manag Relativ Provides/Manag HH Impairm Problem Physical/Mental Health HH Required, Received Mental Health Services Receive Not Did Required, HH Services Health Mental Services Require Not Did HH HH
Overall 9% 9% 4% 7% 22% 3% 2% 25% 32% 6% 63% 8%
Immersed 7% 6% 5% 11% 17% 1% 4% 20% 22% 3% 76% 10% Connected 9% 8% 6% 13% 18% 1% 3% 30% 28% 2% 70% 12% Involved 11% 11% 9% 2% 22% 1% 3% 35% 23% 5% 71% 5% Holiday 3% 2% 3% 0% 9% 12% 3% 27% 27% 3% 70% 23% Minimally Involved 24% 22% 2% 4% 19% 1% 2% 21% 13% 6% 80% 2%
Squirrel Hill 9% 8% 5% 4% 16% 1% 5% 31% 22% 4% 73% 8% Rest of Pittsburgh 5% 4% 3% 12% 19% 1% 3% 27% 25% 5% 71% 9% South Hills 7% 5% 4% 5% 17% 0% 1% 22% 20% 3% 77% 20% North Hills 14% 11% 11% 1% 18% 1% 4% 17% 31% 1% 68% 3% Rest of Region 28% 27% 9% 1% 19% 12% 2% 34% 23% 2% 74% 3%
Orthodox 8% 8% 2% 5% 27% 1% 6% 26% 24% 5% 71% 12% Conservative 5% 4% 3% 24% 9% 7% 2% 24% 20% 1% 78% 15% Reform 12% 11% 8% 1% 19% 1% 5% 36% 24% 3% 73% 9% Other 46% 45% 4% 5% 6% 1% 6% 11% 28% 6% 65% 8% None 8% 7% 7% 3% 31% 1% 1% 23% 33% 5% 62% 4%
Resp. Age 18-34 1% 1% 3% 24% 9% 1% 18% 49% 4% 47% 4% Resp. Age 35-49 8% 6% <1% 11% 2% 3% 10% 33% 3% 64% 7% Resp. Age 50-64 22% 21% 10% 19% 1% 5% 24% 22% 6% 72% 15% Resp. Age 65+ 8% 8% 7% 24% <1% 7% 40% 13% 2% 84% 8%
Non-Member 10% 10% 5% 2% 20% 3% 3% 25% 24% 4% 72% 8% Local Member 11% 10% 6% 14% 21% 1% 3% 30% 24% 3% 73% 11%
Unmarried 11% 10% 4% 10% 25% 1% 6% 32% 21% 5% 74% 14% Inmarried 13% 12% 9% 1% 23% <1% 3% 22% 25% 2% 73% 6% Intermarried 7% 6% 5% 0% 10% 8% 2% 21% 26% 4% 70% 2%
No Kids 11% 10% 5% 6% 22% 3% 3% 29% 21% 4% 75% 10% Kids 7% 6% 6% 14% 1% 3% 12% 36% 4% 61% 4%
< 10 years 3% 2% 2% 14% 10% 2% <1% 12% 34% 5% 62% 4% 10-19 years 9% 8% 5% 14% 22% 2% 8% 20% 37% 8% 55% 12% 20 + years 13% 12% 7% 6% 23% 3% 3% 31% 20% 3% 77% 10%
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s in: Social services and and services s in: Social profit - Working Full Time Full Working Part Working Not Working Retired Work for Looking Legal in: Works or healthcare Medicine in: Works Education in: Works Finance and Business in: Works Technology, in: Science, Works Math Engineering, professional in: Jewish Works Work non Other in: Works
Overall 50% 11% 15% 24% 12% 11% 14% 14% 16% 13% 4% 4% 24%
Immersed 60% 14% 8% 18% 10% 4% 22% 16% 18% 20% 7% 3% 10% Connected 54% 15% 7% 24% 8% 16% 16% 12% 19% 6% 4% 5% 22% Involved 41% 13% 16% 30% 19% 7% 9% 11% 14% 14% 4% 6% 35% Holiday 50% 6% 31% 13% 6% 5% 13% 12% 15% 27% 0% 3% 26% Minimally Involved 46% 8% 28% 18% 7% 19% 10% 8% 14% 11% 0% 2% 36%
Squirrel Hill 57% 12% 8% 23% 8% 14% 19% 14% 12% 17% 6% 5% 14% Rest of Pittsburgh 49% 14% 16% 21% 10% 7% 9% 14% 21% 17% 3% 5% 25% South Hills 33% 8% 38% 21% 27% 7% 13% 8% 14% 4% 4% 3% 48% North Hills 67% 11% 3% 19% 4% 10% 23% 10% 28% 14% 2% 4% 9% Rest of Region 44% 14% 12% 30% 10% 10% 11% 11% 12% 11% 2% 3% 39%
Orthodox 64% 16% 9% 11% 9% 1% 32% 17% 27% 6% 4% 2% 12% Conservative 50% 13% 17% 20% 6% 7% 13% 11% 18% 23% 4% 4% 20% Reform 52% 11% 7% 30% 9% 16% 15% 11% 18% 8% 5% 3% 24% Other 61% 9% 14% 16% 14% 6% 6% 15% 6% 8% 5% 10% 44% None 41% 13% 24% 22% 19% 10% 9% 13% 12% 17% 2% 6% 31%
Resp. Age 18-34 62% 9% 29% <1% 26% 10% 12% 8% 12% 22% 5% 3% 29% Resp. Age 35-49 71% 11% 18% 0% 10% 5% 13% 20% 21% 12% 4% 6% 19% Resp. Age 50-64 59% 17% 13% 10% 8% 10% 18% 13% 21% 9% 3% 4% 21% Resp. Age 65+ 19% 12% 3% 66% 3% 17% 12% 12% 11% 9% 2% 6% 31%
Non-Member 49% 10% 20% 21% 14% 8% 10% 12% 13% 17% 4% 4% 31% Local Member 52% 16% 7% 25% 7% 13% 20% 13% 22% 8% 5% 4% 15%
Unmarried 39% 10% 28% 23% 21% 4% 14% 11% 10% 12% 2% 5% 42% Inmarried 52% 15% 6% 28% 6% 12% 15% 13% 23% 10% 5% 4% 17% Intermarried 62% 11% 15% 12% 8% 12% 12% 14% 12% 23% 4% 5% 17%
No Kids 46% 13% 14% 28% 11% 8% 14% 12% 15% 14% 4% 4% 29% Kids 68% 11% 20% 1% 11% 16% 14% 15% 21% 14% 5% 6% 8%
< 10 years 71% 14% 11% 5% 15% 14% 6% 14% 13% 27% 7% 5% 15% 10-19 years 63% 15% 13% 9% 12% 8% 19% 17% 15% 15% 5% 3% 19% 20 + years 43% 12% 16% 29% 10% 9% 17% 11% 18% 9% 3% 4% 29%
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$199,999
$99,999 -
Financial -
Well-Being
(1/3) Income: $100,000 $100,000 Income: HH Standard of Living: Living: of Standard HH Comfortable Very or Prosperous Living: of Standard HH Comfortable Reasonably Just Living: of Standard HH Along Getting Nearly Living: of Standard HH Poor or Poor $50,000 < Income: HH $50,000 Income: HH HH + $200,000 Income: HH for Enough in Having Confident Retirement Government Receives HH SSDI/SSI Benefit: Government Receives HH or Utility Energy Home Benefit: Assistance
Overall 33% 45% 15% 7% 37% 30% 19% 14% 76% 9% 7%
Immersed 24% 62% 11% 3% 26% 29% 36% 9% 71% 9% 4% Connected 41% 46% 11% 2% 31% 26% 26% 16% 68% 12% 1% Involved 26% 46% 24% 4% 52% 23% 18% 7% 76% 5% 4% Holiday 41% 34% 9% 17% 43% 27% 24% 7% 73% 13% <1% Minimally Involved 42% 39% 16% 3% 26% 57% 7% 10% 58% 7% 0%
Squirrel Hill 35% 50% 12% 3% 44% 25% 20% 11% 80% 7% 2% Rest of Pittsburgh 29% 53% 14% 4% 31% 36% 27% 7% 77% 10% 2% South Hills 38% 50% 11% 1% 30% 34% 43% 13% 84% 8% 1% North Hills 48% 37% 10% 5% 16% 25% 25% 35% 80% <1% 1% Rest of Region 39% 36% 12% 12% 41% 33% 15% 11% 55% 15% 5%
Orthodox 15% 66% 14% 5% 39% 44% 12% 5% 71% 15% 7% Conservative 31% 54% 7% 8% 37% 18% 34% 11% 78% 14% <1% Reform 42% 44% 12% 2% 32% 32% 22% 15% 77% 5% 1% Other 62% 29% 8% 1% 20% 61% 16% 4% 48% 4% 1% None 28% 42% 26% 5% 46% 27% 16% 10% 74% 7% 4%
Resp. Age 18-34 23% 37% 30% 10% 56% 19% 23% 3% 78% 10% 3% Resp. Age 35-49 26% 57% 14% 3% 15% 49% 23% 14% 69% 5% 7% Resp. Age 50-64 44% 40% 10% 6% 24% 36% 20% 20% 62% 5% <1% Resp. Age 65+ 37% 52% 11% 1% 44% 24% 22% 9% 85% 11% 1%
Non-Member 32% 45% 18% 5% 44% 28% 20% 8% 71% 7% 2% Local Member 38% 50% 9% 2% 29% 29% 25% 17% 81% 11% 2%
Unmarried 30% 42% 23% 5% 59% 27% 11% 3% 64% 11% 3% Inmarried 41% 49% 9% 1% 13% 31% 33% 22% 80% 2% 3% Intermarried 33% 51% 8% 8% 19% 32% 33% 16% 79% 12% 1%
No Kids 54% 45% 16% 5% 42% 27% 21% 10% 72% 10% 2% Kids 28% 52% 16% 5% 16% 40% 27% 16% 69% 2% 6%
< 10 years 32% 54% 12% 2% 30% 23% 39% 9% 74% 4% 1% 10-19 years 35% 39% 20% 5% 39% 29% 21% 11% 68% 6% 10% 20 + years 34% 45% 16% 5% 39% 31% 18% 11% 72% 10% 2%
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Financial
Well-Being
(2/3)
Daycare Assistance Daycare HH Receives Government Government Receives HH Housing SNAP, Medicaid, Benefit: or Government Receives HH Any Benefit: Economic Experienced HH in: Change to due Hardship Employment Economic Experienced HH in: Change to due Hardship Housing Economic Experienced HH in: Change to due Hardship Health Economi Experienced HH in: Change to due Hardship Family Structure Economic Experienced HH Any in: Change to due Hardship
Overall 6% 16% 7% 1% 9% 2% 14%
Immersed 9% 17% 9% <1% 5% 4% 14% Connected 3% 14% 10% 1% 7% 4% 17% Involved 8% 12% 10% 1% 9% 3% 17% Holiday 1% 17% 1% 1% 2% 2% 5% Minimally Involved 5% 9% 6% 0% 3% <1% 9%
Squirrel Hill 7% 13% 7% <1% 3% 2% 12% Rest of Pittsburgh 6% 14% 12% 2% 11% 4% 21% South Hills 3% 10% 5% <1% 2% 3% 9% North Hills 1% 1% 6% 0% 4% 3% 11% Rest of Region 7% 22% 6% <1% 8% 1% 10%
Orthodox 14% 29% 6% <1% 7% 6% 13% Conservative 1% 17% 7% <1% 2% 2% 10% Reform 4% 8% 9% 1% 6% 4% 15% Other 2% 5% 5% 0% 11% 5% 15% None 8% 13% 10% 1% 9% 2% 16%
Resp. Age 18-34 6% 15% 13% 1% 8% 6% 19% Resp. Age 35-49 9% 13% 8% 2% 7% 2% 16% Resp. Age 50-64 6% 11% 11% <1% 6% 4% 16% Resp. Age 65+ 3% 13% 4% <1% 5% 1% 9%
Non-Member 6% 12% 8% 1% 7% 3% 13% Local Member 5% 17% 10% 1% 6% 4% 16%
Unmarried 7% 17% 7% 1% 8% 3% 14% Inmarried 5% 7% 12% <1% 6% 2% 15% Intermarried 3% 13% 7% <1% 4% 3% 12%
No Kids 4% 13% 7% 1% 6% 2% 12% Kids 13% 14% 17% 1% 9% 5% 23%
< 10 years 4% 7% 12% 2% 5% 5% 18% 10-19 years 14% 19% 12% 3% 10% 3% 20% 20 + years 5% 14% 7% <1% 6% 2% 12%
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Financial Well-Being
(3/3)
Organization HH Without Savings for 3 Months Months 3 for Savings Without HH of Expenses or Mortgage, Rent, Skipped HH Year Past in Payment Utility Full to Pay in Unable HH Emergency $400 Unexpected Expense Received Member HH Local from Loan or Scholarship Jewish to Unable Member HH to Due Life Jewish in Participate Constrains Financial
Overall 25% 13% 13% 4% 4%
Immersed 19% 5% 10% 14% 6% Connected 13% 4% 4% 3% 7% Involved 21% 8% 9% 6% 4% Holiday 23% 17% 17% <1% 3% Minimally Involved 11% 2% 7% 2% 7%
Squirrel Hill 15% 4% 5% 8% 6% Rest of Pittsburgh 18% 6% 9% 6% 6% South Hills 13% 1% 1% 1% 4% North Hills 11% 2% 7% 6% 4% Rest of Region 27% 20% 22% 1% 4%
Orthodox 34% 7% 14% 21% 6% Conservative 15% 9% 9% 2% 3% Reform 12% 3% 6% 4% 6% Other 10% 7% 3% 2% 2% None 22% 8% 10% 5% 6%
Resp. Age 18-34 29% 18% 16% 8% 6% Resp. Age 35-49 25% 8% 10% 10% 8% Resp. Age 50-64 20% 5% 10% 7% 6% Resp. Age 65+ 7% 1% 2% <1% 2%
Non-Member 19% 8% 8% 4% 5% Local Member 14% 4% 8% 9% 5%
Unmarried 19% 6% 9% 4% 6% Inmarried 12% 4% 5% 8% 3% Intermarried 19% 11% 10% 4% 5%
No Kids 16% 5% 7% 3% 4% Kids 25% 14% 13% 18% 9%
< 10 years 18% 4% 6% 6% 6% 10-19 years 39% 10% 18% 12% 10% 20 + years 14% 7% 8% 4% 4% 56
Appendix D: Codebook SCREENER
SCRLIVE Do you live in the Greater Pittsburgh area for any part of the year? Response Unweighted n
0, No 286 1, Yes 2102 999, DK/REF 1
Total 2389
IF SCRLIVE=Yes (1) or SCRRECENT=Yes(1), Ask: SCRCONJEW Do you or any other adult in your household consider themselves to be Jewish? Response Unweighted n
0, No 736 1, Yes 1359 999, DK/REF 1
Total 2096
IF (SCRLIVE=Yes (1) or SCRRECENT=Yes(1)) and SCRCONJEW=No(0), Ask: SCRPARJEW Do you or any adult in your household have a Jewish parent or were raised Jewish? Response Unweighted n
0, No 703 1, Yes 33
Total 736
HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION
We would now like to ask some questions about your household.
57 HHADNUM How many adults (age 18 or older) usually live in your household -- including yourself? Please include children age 18 or older who are away at college. Response Weighted % n
1 29 260 2 58 771 3 11 117 4 3 58 5 < 1 6 6 < 1 2 7 < 1 1
Total 100 1215
HHCHNUM How many children (age 17 or younger) usually live in your household? Response Weighted % n
0 82 927 1 11 116 2 5 106 3 2 43 4 < 1 10 5 < 1 7 6 < 1 2 7 < 1 2 9 < 1 2
Total 100 1215
HHZIP What is your ZIP code? (If you have multiple homes, please enter your Pittsburgh area ZIP code). Response Unweighted N 15001 < 10 15003 < 10 15010 < 10 15015 < 10 15017 < 10 15024 < 10 15025 < 10 15027 < 10 15044 < 10 15046 < 10 15055 < 10 15057 < 10 58 15062 < 10 15063 < 10 15068 < 10 15071 < 10 15085 < 10 15090 20 15101 13 15102 < 10 15106 < 10 15108 < 10 15116 < 10 15120 < 10 15122 < 10 15126 < 10 15129 < 10 15131 < 10 15132 < 10 15136 < 10 15139 < 10 15142 < 10 15143 < 10 15146 31 15147 < 10 15201 11 15202 < 10 15203 < 10 15205 < 10 15206 67 15207 < 10 15208 31 15209 < 10 15210 < 10 15211 < 10 15212 < 10 15213 63 15215 30 15216 19 15217 425 15218 21 15219 < 10 15220 < 10 15221 38 15222 < 10 15224 < 10 15226 < 10 59 15228 35 15229 < 10 15232 39 15233 < 10 15234 < 10 15235 19 15236 < 10 15237 16 15238 40 15239 < 10 15241 48 15243 59 15253 < 10 15301 < 10 15317 < 10 15367 < 10 15504 < 10 15563 < 10 15601 14 15632 < 10 15636 < 10 15642 < 10 15658 < 10 15666 < 10 15668 < 10 16001 < 10 16002 < 10 16023 < 10 16046 < 10 16053 < 10 16057 < 10 16063 < 10 16066 < 10 16105 < 10 16201 < 10 Out Of Area 21 DK/REF 52
Total 1112
RESPONDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
We would now like to ask some questions about you.
60 RESPGENDER Are you…? Response Weighted % n
1, Male 47 511 2, Female 52 668 3, Something else, please specify < 1 8
Total 100 1187
RESPGENDER_OTH 8 responses
RESPAGE How old are you? Response Weighted % n
18-24 years old 6 23 25-34 years old 18 94 35-44 years old 11 124 45-54 years old 16 152 55-64 years old 20 266 65+ years old 27 513 999, DK/REF 2 9
Total 100 1181
IF RESPAGE = 18, 19, MISSING, or -999 ask: RESPHS Are you currently enrolled in high school? Response Weighted % n
0, No 99 22 1, Yes 1 1
Total 100 23
61 IF RESPHS= YES (1), ask: RESPJEWED Since June 2016, have you participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, or a youth group. Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1 if RESPHS= no or missing or not asked RESPEDU What is the highest level of schooling you have completed? Response Weighted % n
1, Less than high school diploma < 1 2 2, High school diploma 3 20 3, Some college or technical school 8 74 4, Associate or technical degree 5 34 5, Bachelor’s degree 28 340 6, Master’s degree 29 365 7, J.D. or other legal degree 10 108 8, M.D. or other medical degree 6 88 9, Doctorate or other professional degree 11 153 10, Other, please specify: < 1 3
Total 100 1187
RESPEDU_OTH 23 responses
RESPRELIG What is your religion, if any?
Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 80 1124 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: 6 27 4, Buddhist 3 1 7, Atheist 2 13 8, Agnostic 5 10 9, Other religion, please specify: < 1 4 10, No religion 2 11
Total 100 1190
62 RESPRELIG_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify: 26 responses
RESPRELIG_OROTH Other religion, please specify: 4 responses
IF RESPRELIG IS NOT JEWISH (1) AND RESPRELIG IS NOT JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2), ask: RESPCONSIDER Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 39
Total 100 39
RESPPARENTS Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, father 14 49 2, Yes, mother 4 36 3, Yes, father and mother 74 1040 4, No 7 65
Total 100 1190
RESPRELRSD Were you raised… Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 75 1048 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: 8 21 3, No religion 5 47 4, Other religion, please specify: 12 67
Total 100 1183
RESPRELRSD_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify: 20 responses
RESPRELRSD_OROTH Other religion, please specify: 67 responses
63 IF RJEWISH = 1 AND RESPPARENTS=NO (4) AND (RESPRELRSD=NO RELIGION (3) OR OTHER RELIGION(4)), ask: RESPCONVERT Did you have a formal conversion to Judaism? Response Weighted % n
0, No 20 5 1, Yes 80 58
Total 100 63
IF (RESPPARENTS=ANY YES (1, 2, 3) OR RESPRELRSD=JEWISH (1) OR RESPRELRSD= JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2)), ask: RESPSCH Response Weighted % n
0, No 41 423 1, Yes 59 701
Total 100 1124
IF RJEWISH = 1, ask: RESPDENOM With which branch of Judaism do you currently identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 8 127 2, Conservative 22 293 3, Reconstructionist 3 37 4, Reform 32 522 5, Renewal < 1 1 6, Secular/Culturally Jewish 15 96 7, Just Jewish 15 82 8, Other, please specify: 5 30 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1190
RESPDENOM_OTH 30 responses ADULT ROSTER The following questions are about any other adults in your household. First, please think of your spouse, fiancé/e, or significant other, if you have one.
64 HHADRLT2 Thinking about the first adult age 18 or over in your household… What is your relationship to this adult? Response Weighted % n
1, Your spouse 68 823 2, Your adult child 4 40 3, Your stepchild < 1 1 4, Your parent 8 25 6, Your step-parent < 1 1 8, Your sibling 7 7 9, Your fiancé/e 4 8 10, Your significant other or partner 4 33 11, Your roommate/housemate < 1 10 12, Other, please specify: 3 5
Total 100 953
HHADRLT2_OTH 5 responses
HHADGENDER2 Is this adult… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 56 500 2, Female 44 449 3, Something else, please specify: < 1 2
Total 100 951
HHADGENDER2_OTH 2 responses
HHADAGE2 What is {his/her/their} age? Response Weighted % n
18-24 years old 10 33 25-34 years old 19 78 35-44 years old 11 120 45-54 years old 9 129 55-64 years old 22 215 65+ years old 28 360 999, DK/REF 2 5
Total 100 940
65 IF HHADAGE2 =18, 19, or-999, ask: HHADHS2 {Is he / Is she / Are they} currently enrolled in high school? Response Weighted % n
0, No 91 24 1, Yes 9 3
Total 100 27
IF HHADHS2= YES (1), ask: HHADJEWED2 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? (For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 80 1 1, Yes 20 2
Total 100 3
IF (HHADRLT2 = YOUR ADULT CHILD (2) OR YOUR STEPCHILD (3)) AND (HHADHS2= No (0) or not asked or not answered) ask: HHADWHERE2 Where {does he / does she / do they} live for most of the year? Response Weighted % n
1, At home with you 34 17 2, At school in Greater Pittsburgh 2 3 3, At school outside of Greater Pittsburgh 54 13 4, Not with you, but in Greater Pittsburgh 1 1 5, Outside of Greater Pittsburgh 4 2 6, Other, please specify: 5 2
Total 100 38
HHADWHERE2_OTH 2 responses
66 HHADRELIG2 What is (his / her / their} religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 58 732 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: < 1 7 3, Christian 18 99 4, Buddhist 1 2 7, Atheist 7 23 8, Agnostic 3 19 9, Other religion, please specify: < 1 16 10, No religion 11 54 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 953
HHADRELIG2_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify 7 responses
HHADRELIG2_OROTH Another religion, please specify 15 responses
IF HHADRELIG2 IS NOT JEWISH (1) AND NOT JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2), ask: HHADCONSIDER2 Aside from religion, (does he / does she / do they} consider (himself / herself / themself} Jewish? Response Weighted % n
0, No 65 174 1, Yes 34 39 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 214
HHADPARENTS2 Were either of (his / her / their} parents Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, father 11 18 2, Yes, mother 3 33 3, Yes, father and mother 51 646 4, No 35 256
Total 100 953 67
HHADRELRSD2 In what religion (was he / was she / were they} raised? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 50 648 2, Jewish and something else, please specify 7 4 3, No religion 11 68 4, Other religion, please specify: 32 226 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 947
HHADRELRSD2_JOTH 4 responses
HHADRELRSD2_OROTH 222 responses
IF (HHADRELIG2 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER2 = YES (1)) AND (HHADPARENTS2 = NO (4)) AND (HHADRELRSD2 = NO RELIGION (3) OR OTHER RELIGION (4)), ask: HHADCONVERT2 Did (he / she / they} have a formal conversion to Judaism? Response Weighted % n
0, No 49 28 1, Yes 51 59
Total 100 87
IF HHADRELIG2 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER2 = YES (1), ask: HHADDENOM2 With which branch of Judaism (does he / does she / do they} identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 8 102 2, Conservative 25 209 3, Reconstructionist < 1 18 4, Reform 37 322 6, Secular/culturally Jewish 18 52 7, Just Jewish 9 63 8, Other, please specify < 1 11 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 778
HHADDENOM2_OTH 11 responses
HHADRLT3 68 Thinking about the second adult age 18 or over in your household… What is your relationship to this adult? Response Weighted % n
1, Your spouse 8 6 2, Your adult child 60 136 3, Your stepchild 2 3 4, Your parent 16 16 6, Your step-parent 2 3 7, Your mother- or father-in-law 2 1 8, Your sibling 3 4 11, Your roommate/housemate 4 8 12, Other, please specify: 3 5
Total 100 182
HHADRLT3_OTH 5 responses
HHADGENDER3 Is this adult… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 39 96 2, Female 61 85 3, Something else, please specify: < 1 1
Total 100 182
HHADGENDER3_OTH 1 response
HHADAGE3 What is {his/her/their} age? Response Weighted % n
18-24 years old 57 112 25-34 years old 11 33 35-44 years old 3 9 45-54 years old 7 5 55-64 years old 15 14 65+ years old 7 10
Total 100 183
IF HHADAGE3 =18, 19, or-999, ask: HHADHS3 {Is he / Is she / Are they} currently enrolled in high school? Response Weighted % n 69
0, No 96 23 1, Yes 4 4
Total 100 27
IF HHADHS3= YES (1), ask: HHADJEWED3 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? (For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 23 1 1, Yes 77 3
Total 100 4
IF (HHADRLT3 = YOUR ADULT CHILD (2) OR YOUR STEPCHILD (3)) AND (HHADHS3= No (0) or not asked or not answered) ask: HHADWHERE3 Where {does he / does she / do they} live for most of the year? Response Weighted % n
1, At home with you 43 52 2, At school in Greater Pittsburgh 14 12 3, At school outside of Greater Pittsburgh 34 58 4, Not with you, but in Greater Pittsburgh 1 2 5, Outside of Greater Pittsburgh 5 7 6, Other, please specify: 2 6
Total 100 137
HHADWHERE3_OTH 6 responses
70 HHADRELIG3 What is (his / her / their} religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 69 150 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: < 1 2 3, Christian 13 11 7, Atheist 3 3 8, Agnostic 7 3 9, Other religion, please specify: < 1 1 10, No religion 8 13
Total 100 183
HHADRELIG3_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify 1 response
HHADRELIG3_OROTH Another religion, please specify 1 response
IF HHADRELIG3 IS NOT JEWISH (1) AND NOT JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2), ask: HHADCONSIDER3 Aside from religion, (does he / does she / do they} consider (himself / herself / themself} Jewish? Response Weighted % n
0, No 30 19 1, Yes 70 13
Total 100 32
HHADPARENTS3 Were either of (his / her / their} parents Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, father 20 16 2, Yes, mother 9 22 3, Yes, father and mother 64 132 4, No 7 14
Total 100 184
71 HHADRELRSD3 In what religion (was he / was she / were they} raised? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 68 149 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: 6 6 3, No religion 9 11 4, Other religion, please specify: 17 16 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 183
HHADRELRSD3_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify 5 responses
HHADRELRSD3_OROTH Another religion, please specify 16 responses
IF (HHADRELIG3 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER3 = YES (1)) AND (HHADPARENTS3 = NO (4)) AND (HHADRELRSD3 = NO RELIGION (3) OR OTHER RELIGION (4)), ask: HHADCONVERT3 Did (he / she / they} have a formal conversion to Judaism? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
IF HHADRELIG3 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER3 = YES (1), ask: HHADDENOM3 With which branch of Judaism (does he / does she / do they} identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 13 23 2, Conservative 9 31 3, Reconstructionist 3 6 4, Reform 28 51 6, Secular/culturally Jewish 25 23 7, Just Jewish 21 23 8, Other, please specify: 2 7
Total 100 164
HHADDENOM3_OTH 7 responses
72 HHADRLT4 Thinking about the third adult age 18 or over in your household… What is your relationship to this adult? Response Weighted % n
1, Your spouse < 1 1 2, Your adult child 81 54 3, Your stepchild < 1 2 8, Your sibling 17 6 11, Your roommate/housemate < 1 2 12, Other, please specify: < 1 1
Total 100 66
HHADRLT4_OTH 2 responses
HHADGENDER4 Is this adult… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 43 36 2, Female 57 30
Total 100 66
HHADAGE4 What is {his/her/their} age? Response Weighted % n
18-24 years old 94 56 25-34 years old 4 7 35-44 years old < 1 2 55-64 years old < 1 1
Total 100 66
IF HHADAGE4 =18, 19, or-999, ask: HHADHS4 {Is he / Is she / Are they} currently enrolled in high school? Response Weighted % n
0, No 89 19 1, Yes 11 5
Total 100 24
IF HHADHS4= YES (1), ask: 73 HHADJEWED4 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? (For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 54 3 1, Yes 46 2
Total 100 5
IF (HHADRLT4 = YOUR ADULT CHILD (2) OR YOUR STEPCHILD (3)) AND (HHADHS4= No (0) or not asked or not answered) ask: HHADWHERE4 Where {does he / does she / do they} live for most of the year? Response Weighted % n
1, At home with you 36 14 2, At school in Greater Pittsburgh 12 7 3, At school outside of Greater Pittsburgh 33 24 5, Outside of Greater Pittsburgh 17 4 6, Other, please specify: 2 2
Total 100 51
HHADWHERE4_OTH 2 responses
HHADRELIG4 What is (his / her / their} religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 67 56 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: < 1 1 3, Christian 4 3 9, Other religion, please specify: < 1 2 10, No religion 28 5
Total 100 67
HHADRELIG4_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify 1 response
HHADRELIG4_OROTH Other religion, please specify 2 responses
IF HHADRELIG4 IS NOT JEWISH (1) AND NOT JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2), ask: 74 HHADCONSIDER4 Aside from religion, (does he / does she / do they} consider (himself / herself / themself} Jewish? Response Weighted % n
0, No 99 9 1, Yes < 1 1
Total 100 10
HHADPARENTS4 Were either of (his / her / their} parents Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, father 20 6 2, Yes, mother 8 7 3, Yes, father and mother 65 50 4, No 8 4
Total 100 67
HHADRELRSD4 In what religion (was he / was she / were they} raised? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 76 57 2, Jewish and something else, please specify: 1 2 3, No religion 7 1 4, Other religion, please specify: 16 7
Total 100 67
HHADRELRSD4_JOTH Jewish and something else, please specify 2 responses
HHADRELRSD4_OROTH Other religion, please specify 7 responses
75 IF HHADRELIG4 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER4 = YES (1), ask: HHADDENOM4 With which branch of Judaism (does he / does she / do they} identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 31 13 2, Conservative 16 12 3, Reconstructionist 2 1 4, Reform 34 18 6, Secular/culturally Jewish 8 5 7, Just Jewish 6 6 8, Other, please specify: 3 3
Total 100 58
HHADDENOM4_OROTH 3 responses
HHADRLT5 Thinking about the fourth adult age 18 or over in your household… What is your relationship to this adult? Response Weighted % n
1, Your spouse 4 1 2, Your adult child 94 7 12, Other, please specify: 2 1
Total 100 9
HHADRLT5_OTH 1 response
HHADGENDER5 Is this adult… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 27 2 2, Female 73 7
Total 100 9
76 HHADAGE5 What is {his/her/their} age? Response Weighted % n
18-24 years old 94 7 25-34 years old 2 1 35-44 years old 4 1
Total 100 9
IF HHADAGE5 =18, 19, or-999, ask: HHADHS5 {Is he / Is she / Are they} currently enrolled in high school? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 4
Total 100 4
IF (HHADRLT5 = YOUR ADULT CHILD (2) OR YOUR STEPCHILD (3)) AND (HHADHS5= No (0) or not asked or not answered) ask: HHADWHERE5 Where {does he / does she / do they} live for most of the year? Response Weighted % n
1, At home with you 31 1 2, At school in Greater Pittsburgh 13 2 3, At school outside of Greater Pittsburgh 48 3 5, Outside of Greater Pittsburgh 8 1
Total 100 7
HHADRELIG5 What is (his / her / their} religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 98 8 3, Christian 2 1
Total 100 9
77 IF HHADRELIG5 IS NOT JEWISH (1) AND NOT JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2), ask: HHADCONSIDER5 Aside from religion, (does he / does she / do they} consider (himself / herself / themself} Jewish? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
HHADPARENTS5 Were either of (his / her / their} parents Jewish? Response Weighted % n
2, Yes, mother 19 1 3, Yes, father and mother 78 7 4, No 2 1
Total 100 9
HHADRELRSD5 In what religion (was he / was she / were they} raised? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 98 8 4, Other religion, please specify: 2 1
Total 100 9
HHADRELRSD5_OROTH Other religion, please specify 1 response
IF HHADRELIG5 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER5 = YES (1), ask: HHADDENOM5 With which branch of Judaism (does he / does she / do they} identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 75 6 2, Conservative 5 1 4, Reform 20 1
Total 100 8
78 HHADRLT6 Thinking about the fifth adult age 18 or over in your household… What is your relationship to this adult? Response Weighted % n
2, Your adult child 93 2 6, Your step-parent 7 1
Total 100 3
HHADGENDER6 Is this adult… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 26 2 2, Female 74 1
Total 100 3
HHADAGE6 What is {his/her/their} age? Response Weighted % n
18-24 years old 93 2 65+ years old 7 1
Total 100 3
IF HHADAGE6 =18, 19, or-999, ask: HHADHS6 {Is he / Is she / Are they} currently enrolled in high school? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
IF (HHADRLT6 = YOUR ADULT CHILD (2) OR YOUR STEPCHILD (3)) AND (HHADHS6= No (0) or not asked or not answered) ask: HHADWHERE6 Where {does he / does she / do they} live for most of the year? Response Weighted % n
1, At home with you 79 1 5, Outside of Greater Pittsburgh 21 1
Total 100 2 79
HHADRELIG6 What is (his / her / their} religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 100 3
Total 100 3
HHADPARENTS6 Were either of (his / her / their} parents Jewish? Response Weighted % n
3, Yes, father and mother 100 3
Total 100 3
HHADRELRSD6 In what religion (was he / was she / were they} raised? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 93 2 4, Other religion, please specify: 7 1
Total 100 3
HHADRELRSD6_OROTH Other religion, please specify 1 response
IF HHADRELIG6 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER6 = YES (1), ask: HHADDENOM6 With which branch of Judaism (does he / does she / do they} identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 100 3
Total 100 3
HHADRELIG7 What is (his / her / their} religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 100 1
Total 100 1 80
HHADPARENTS7 Were either of (his / her / their} parents Jewish? Response Weighted % n
3, Yes, father and mother 100 1
Total 100 1
HHADRELRSD7 In what religion (was he / was she / were they} raised? Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 100 1
Total 100 1
IF HHADRELIG7 = JEWISH (1) OR JEWISH AND SOMETHING ELSE (2) OR HHADCONSIDER6 = YES (1), ask: HHADDENOM7 With which branch of Judaism (does he / does she / do they} identify, if any? Response Weighted % n
1, Orthodox 100 1
Total 100 1
CHILD ROSTER The next set of questions is about the children age 17 or younger in your household. Please start with the youngest child in your household, going to the oldest. Thinking of the youngest child…
HHCHAGE1 How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
0-5 years old 55 95 6-12 years old 19 98 13-17 years old 26 95
Total 100 288
81 HHCHGENDER1 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 60 145 2, Female 40 143
Total 100 288
HHCHRLT1 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 94 275 2, Your stepchild < 1 3 3, Your sibling 5 4 4, Your grandchild < 1 5 5, Other, please specify < 1 1
Total 100 288
HHCHRLT1_OTH 1 response
IF HHCHAGE1>3, ask: HHCHGRD1 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Not yet in kindergarten 54 94 Grades K-5 17 80 Grades 6-89 5 37 Grades 9-12 20 73 Other, please specify 4 3
Total 100 287
HHCHGRD1_OTH 5 responses
82 HHCHRELRSD1 Is (he / she / this child} being raised… Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish by religion 47 234 2, Culturally Jewish 17 27 3, Another religion, please specify: 3 4 4, Jewish and another religion, please specify: 5 7 5, No religion 27 13 6, Not yet decided 2 2 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 288
HHCHRELRSD1_JOTH Jewish and another religion, please specify 6 responses
HHCHRELRSD1_OROTH Another religion, please specify 4 responses
IF HHCHNUM > 1, ask: HHCHRELSAME In terms of religion, are all of the children in the household being raised in the same way? Response Weighted % n
0, No < 1 4 1, Yes 99 168
Total 100 172
IF HHCHGRD1 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED1 Since June 2016, (has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring.. Response Weighted % n
0, No 42 49 1, Yes 58 145
Total 100 194
83 IF (HHCHAGE1 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER1 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE1 > 11 AND (HHCHGENDER1 = FEMALE (2) OR NOT LISTED (3))), ask: HHCHBARBAT1 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 56 76 2, Will have one in the future 1 5 3, No 43 21
Total 100 102
HHCHAGE2 Thinking of the second youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
0-5 years old 36 42 6-12 years old 44 83 13-17 years old 20 47
Total 100 172
HHCHGENDER2 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 55 88 2, Female 45 83 3, Something else, please specify: < 1 1
Total 100 172
HHCHGENDER2_OTH 1 response
HHCHRLT2 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 99 169 2, Your stepchild < 1 2 4, Your grandchild < 1 1
Total 100 172
84 IF HHCHAGE2 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD2 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Not yet in kindergarten 32 41 Grades K-5 42 73 Grades 6-9 13 28 Grades 9-12 13 29
Total 100 171
IF HHCHRELSAME=NO (0), ask: HHCHRELRSD2 Is {he / she / this child} being raised… Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish by religion 84 2 2, Culturally Jewish 14 1 6, Not yet decided 2 1
Total 100 4
IF HHCHGRD2 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED2 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
0, No 44 27 1, Yes 56 103
Total 100 130
IF (HHCHAGE2 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER2 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE2 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER2 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT2 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 44 36 2, Will have one in the future 10 4 3, No 46 10
Total 100 50
85 HHCHAGE3 Thinking of the third youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
0-5 years old 36 14 6-12 years old 51 37 13-17 years old 13 15
Total 100 66
HHCHGENDER3 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 38 34 2, Female 62 32
Total 100 66
HHCHRLT3 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 99 65 2, Your stepchild 1 1
Total 100 66
IF HHCHAGE3 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD3 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Not yet in kindergarten 36 13 Grades K-5 50 33 Grades 6-9 8 10 Grades 9-12 7 9
Total 100 65
86 IF HHCHRELSAME=NO (0), ask: HHCHRELRSD3 Is {he / she / this child} being raised… Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish by religion 100 1
Total 100 1
IF HHCHGRD3 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED3 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
0, No 33 6 1, Yes 67 46
Total 100 52
IF (HHCHAGE3 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER3 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE3 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER3 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT3 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 55 12 2, Will have one in the future 7 2 3, No 38 2
Total 100 16
HHCHAGE4 Thinking of the fourth youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
0-5 years old 29 2 6-12 years old 63 15 13-17 years old 9 6
Total 100 23
87 HHCHGENDER4 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 48 12 2, Female 52 11
Total 100 23
HHCHRLT4 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 97 22 2, Your stepchild 3 1
Total 100 23
IF HHCHAGE4 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD4 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Not yet in kindergarten < 1 1 Grades K-5 50 10 Grades 6-9 45 8 Grades 9-12 5 4
Total 100 23
IF HHCHGRD4 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED4 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
0, No 28 1 1, Yes 72 21
Total 100 22
88 IF (HHCHAGE4 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER4 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE4 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER4 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT4 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 97 9 2, Will have one in the future 3 1
Total 100 10 HHCHAGE5 Thinking of the fifth youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
6-12 years old 22 6 13-17 years old 78 7
Total 100 13
HHCHGENDER5 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 73 7 2, Female 27 6
Total 100 13
HHCHRLT5 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 94 12 2, Your stepchild 6 1
Total 100 13
89 IF HHCHAGE5 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD5 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Grades K-5 15 3 Grades 6-9 13 6 Grades 9-12 72 4
Total 100 13
IF HHCHGRD5 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED5 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 13
Total 100 13
IF (HHCHAGE5 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER5 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE5 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER5 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT5 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 9
Total 100 9
HHCHAGE6 Thinking of the sixth youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
6-12 years old 5 1 13-17 years old 95 5
Total 100 6
90 HHCHGENDER6 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 81 3 2, Female 19 3
Total 100 6
HHCHRLT6 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 100 6
Total 100 6
IF HHCHAGE6 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD6 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Grades K-5 5 1 Grades 6-9 14 1 Grades 9-12 82 4
Total 100 6
IF HHCHGRD6 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED6 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 6
Total 100 6
IF (HHCHAGE6 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER6 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE6 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER6 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT6 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 5
Total 100 5
91 HHCHAGE7 Thinking of the seventh youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
6-12 years old 5 1 13-17 years old 95 3
Total 100 4
HHCHGENDER7 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 100 3
Total 100 3
HHCHRLT7 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 100 3
Total 100 3
IF HHCHAGE7 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD7 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Grades 6-9 86 2 Grades 9-12 14 1
Total 100 3
IF HHCHGRD7 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED7 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 3
Total 100 3
IF (HHCHAGE7 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER7 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE7 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER7 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: 92 HHCHBARBAT7 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
HHCHAGE8 Thinking of the eighth youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
13-17 years old 100 2
Total 100 2
HHCHGENDER8 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 74 1 2, Female 26 1
Total 100 2
HHCHRLT8 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHCHAGE8 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD8 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? Response Weighted % n
Grades 6-9 26 1 Grades 9-12 74 1
Total 100 2
IF HHCHGRD8 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED8 93 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
IF (HHCHAGE8 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER8 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE8 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER8 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT8 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
HHCHAGE9 Thinking of the ninth youngest child… How old is this child? Response Weighted % n
13-17 years old 100 2
Total 100 2
HHCHGENDER9 Is this child… Response Weighted % n
1, Male 74 1 2, Female 26 1
Total 100 2
HHCHRLT9 What is your relationship to (him / her / this child}? Response Weighted % n
1, Your child 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHCHAGE9 > 3, ask: HHCHGRD9 What grade is (he / she / this child} in for the 2016-17 school year? 94 Response Weighted % n
Grades 9-12 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHCHGRD9 = GRADES K-12 (0-13), ask: HHCHJEWED9 Since June 2016, {has he / has she / have they} participated in any form of Jewish education? For example, school, camp, youth group, or tutoring. Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
IF (HHCHAGE9 > 12 AND HHCHGENDER9 = MALE (1)) OR (HHCHAGE9 > 11 AND HHCHGENDER7 = FEMALE (2) OR something else (3) or missing or -999), ask: HHCHBARBAT9 Did this child have a bar or bat mitzvah? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
95 MULTIGENERATIONAL
NHCCNUM How many children do you have, of any age, who do NOT usually live in your household? Please include both adult and minor children who do NOT usually live with you. Response Weighted % n
0 52 487 1 14 153 2 24 323 3 6 159 4 2 55 5 1 16 6 < 1 10 7 < 1 3 8 < 1 1 9 < 1 1
Total 100 1208
If NHCCNUM > 0, ask: NHCCNUMOUT How many of these children live in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Response Weighted % n
0 42 317 1 39 265 2 15 109 3 4 23 4 < 1 2
Total 100 716
If RESPAGE < 75, ask: NHPARENT Do you or your spouse or partner have a parent living in the Greater Pittsburgh area, but outside of your household? Response Weighted % n
0, No 65 657 1, Yes 35 319
Total 100 976
96 RESIDENCY
We would like to know about your home and length of residence in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
LOCYEARS For how many years have you lived in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Note: Please give the approximate total number of years if you had previously lived in Greater Pittsburgh, moved away, and returned. Response Weighted % n
<10 years 17 138 10-19 years 9 126 20 + years 73 916
Total 100 1180
IF LOCYEARS < 6, ask: LOCMOVE Why did you move to the Greater Pittsburgh area? 90 responses
PLOCLEAVE Do you have any plans to move out of the Pittsburgh area within the next three years? Response Weighted % n
0, No 81 1071 1, Yes 17 99 999, DK/REF 1 8
Total 100 1178
IF PLOCLEAVE= Yes(1), Ask: PLOCLEAVE_WHY Why do you plan to move away from the Greater Pittsburgh area? 93 responses
LOCOWN Do you rent or own your home in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Response Weighted % n
1, Own 81 996 2, Rent 17 179 3, Neither 1 4 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1180
97 CLASSIFICATIONS
We would like some additional information about where you are from.
IF HHSIZE = 1 or ROOMMATE=1, ask: CITISRRESP Do you hold Israeli citizenship? Response Weighted % n
0, No 97 234 1, Yes 3 15 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 250
IF HHSIZE > 1 AND ROOMMATE=0, ask: CITISRHH Does anyone in your household hold Israeli citizenship? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, you < 1 17 2, Yes, someone else < 1 23 3, Yes, you and someone else 1 19 4, No 97 892
Total 100 951
IF (CITISRHH = YES, SOMEONE ELSE (2) OR YES, ME AND SOMEONE ELSE (3)) and HHADNUM>1, ask: CITISRAD How many {IF CITISRHH = YES, ME AND SOMEONE ELSE (3): other} adults in your household hold Israeli citizenship? Response Weighted % n
0 24 3 1 40 24 2 29 10 3 < 1 2 4 6 3
Total 100 42
98 IF (CITISRHH = YES, SOMEONE ELSE (2) OR YES, ME AND SOMEONE ELSE (3) and HHCHNUM>0), ask: CITISRCH How many children in your household age 17 and younger hold Israeli citizenship? Response Weighted % n
0 15 8 1 48 5 2 22 4 3 4 2 5 3 1 6 7 2
Total 100 22
CITOTHER Are you or anyone in your household a citizen of any of the following countries (not including the United States or Israel)? (select all that apply)
CITCAN Canada Response Weighted % n
0, No 99 1180 1, Canada 1 22
Total 100 1202
CITGERM Germany Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1196 1, Germany < 1 6
Total 100 1202
CITRUS Russia or a country in the Former Soviet Union Response Weighted % n
0, No 99 1192 1, Russia or a country in the Former Soviet Union 1 10
Total 100 1202
99 CITUK United Kingdom Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1193 1, United Kingdom < 1 9
Total 100 1202
CITOTH Another country, please specify: Response Weighted % n
0, No 96 1170 1, Another country, please specify: 4 32
Total 100 1202
CITOTH_TXT 33 responses
PRESCHOOL
Next we would like to find out about the education of any children in your household not yet in kindergarten.
PKNOW1 Is {the male / the female / the} child currently enrolled in a preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 43 23 1, Yes 57 67
Total 100 90
IF PKNOW1 = YES (1), ask: PKJEWISH1 Is {he / she / the child} in a Jewish preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 77 42 1, Yes 23 48
Total 100 90
PKNOW2 Is {the male / the female / the} child currently enrolled in a preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n 100
0, No 18 8 1, Yes 82 32
Total 100 40
IF PKNOW2 = YES (1), ask: PKJEWISH2 Is {he / she / the child} in a Jewish preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 55 16 1, Yes 45 24
Total 100 40
PKNOW3 Is {the male / the female / the} child currently enrolled in a preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 27 3 1, Yes 73 9
Total 100 12
IF PKNOW3 = YES (1), ask: PKJEWISH3 Is {he / she / the child} in a Jewish preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 90 6 1, Yes 10 6
Total 100 12
PKNOW4 Is {the male / the female / the} child currently enrolled in a preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
101 IF PKNOW4 = YES (1), ask: PKJEWISH4 Is {he / she / the child} in a Jewish preschool or daycare program? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
IF RESPISPARENT =1 AND CHCTPREK >0 AND JPK = 0, ask: Which of the following are reasons that your children are not currently enrolled in a Jewish preschool or daycare program? Select all that apply.
PKWHYNOT_COST Cost Response Weighted % n
0, No 90 33 1, Cost 10 7
Total 100 40
PKWHYNOT_LOC Location or transportation Response Weighted % n
0, No 84 30 1, Location or transportation 16 10
Total 100 40
PKWHYNOT_NOINT Lack of interest Response Weighted % n
0, No 43 34 1, Lack of interest 57 6
Total 100 40
PKWHYNOT_FIT No good fit for the child Response Weighted % n
0, No 93 35 1, No good fit for the child 7 5
Total 100 40 102
PKWHYNOT_OTH Other, please specify: Response Weighted % n
0, No 84 25 1, Other, please specify: 16 15
Total 100 40
PKWHYNOT_OTHTXT 15 responses K-12 JEWISH EDUCATION
Next we would like to find out about your experiences with Jewish education.
IF RESPJEWED = YES (1), ask JEDPTRESP Are you currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
IF RESPJEWED = YES (1) and JEDPTRESP = NO (0), ask: JEDDSRESP Are you currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva?
Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
RESPJEWED = YES (1), ask JEDTUTRESP Since June 2016, did you participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes? For example, Hebrew language tutoring or online classes. Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
103 RESPJEWED = YES (1), ask JEDDYCRESP Did you attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
RESPJEWED = YES (1), ask JEDOVCRESP Did you attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
RESPJEWED = YES (1), ask JEDYGRESP Do you participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
If RESPJEWED = YES (1) , ask: JEDISRRESP Have you ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
Next we would like to find out about the Jewish education of those in grades K-12.
IF HHCHJEWED1 = YES (1), The following questions are about the first child.
104 JEDPT1 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 62 56 1, Yes 38 86
Total 100 142
IF JEDPT1 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS1 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
0, No 57 32 1, Yes 43 24
Total 100 56
JEDTUT1 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 78 103 1, Yes 22 39
Total 100 142
JEDDYC1 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 46 89 1, Yes 54 52
Total 100 141
JEDOVC1 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 79 108 1, Yes 21 34
Total 100 142
105 IF HHCHGRD1 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG1 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 69 39 1, Yes 31 36
Total 100 75
IF HHCHGRD1 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR1 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 75 25 1, Yes 25 17
Total 100 42
IF HHCHJEWED2 = YES (1), The following questions are about the second child.
JEDPT2 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 53 42 1, Yes 47 58
Total 100 100
IF JEDPT2 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS2 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
0, No 44 14 1, Yes 56 28
Total 100 42
106 JEDTUT2 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 82 81 1, Yes 18 19
Total 100 100
JEDDYC2 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 50 58 1, Yes 50 42
Total 100 100
JEDOVC2 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 76 72 1, Yes 24 28
Total 100 100
IF HHCHGRD2 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG2 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 66 22 1, Yes 34 18
Total 100 40
IF HHCHGRD2 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR2 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 60 13 1, Yes 40 5
Total 100 18
107 IF HHCHJEWED3 = YES (1), The following questions are about the third child.
JEDPT3 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 52 22 1, Yes 48 23
Total 100 45
IF JEDPT3 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS3 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
0, No 24 4 1, Yes 76 18
Total 100 22
JEDTUT3 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 84 36 1, Yes 16 9
Total 100 45
JEDDYC3 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 51 23 1, Yes 49 22
Total 100 45
108 JEDOVC3 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 71 32 1, Yes 29 13
Total 100 45
IF HHCHGRD3 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG3 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 67 9 1, Yes 33 7
Total 100 16
IF HHCHGRD3 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR3 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 89 6 1, Yes 11 2
Total 100 8
IF HHCHJEWED4 = YES (1), The following questions are about the fourth child.
JEDPT4 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 57 10 1, Yes 43 10
Total 100 20
109 IF JEDPT4 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS4 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 10
Total 100 10
JEDTUT4 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 84 14 1, Yes 16 6
Total 100 20
JEDDYC4 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 47 9 1, Yes 53 11
Total 100 20
JEDOVC4 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 56 13 1, Yes 44 7
Total 100 20
IF HHCHGRD4 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG4 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 62 4 1, Yes 38 7
Total 100 11
110 IF HHCHGRD4 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR4 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 31 1 1, Yes 69 3
Total 100 4
IF HHCHJEWED5 = YES (1), The following questions are about the fifth child.
JEDPT5 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 72 7 1, Yes 28 5
Total 100 12
IF JEDPT5 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS5 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 7
Total 100 7
JEDTUT5 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 78 8 1, Yes 22 4
Total 100 12
JEDDYC5 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 53 4 1, Yes 47 8
Total 100 12
111 JEDOVC5 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 48 6 1, Yes 52 6
Total 100 12
IF HHCHGRD5 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG5 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 74 6 1, Yes 26 3
Total 100 9
IF HHCHGRD5 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR5 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 78 2 1, Yes 22 1
Total 100 3
IF HHCHJEWED6 = YES (1), The following questions are about the sixth child.
JEDPT6 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 60 2 1, Yes 40 3
Total 100 5
112 IF JEDPT6 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS6 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
JEDTUT6 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 74 3 1, Yes 26 2
Total 100 5
JEDDYC6 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 77 3 1, Yes 23 2
Total 100 5
JEDOVC6 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 32 2 1, Yes 68 3
Total 100 5
IF HHCHGRD6 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG6 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 89 3 1, Yes 11 1
Total 100 4
113 IF HHCHGRD6 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR6 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 74 2 1, Yes 26 1
Total 100 3
IF HHCHJEWED7 = YES (1), The following questions are about the seventh child.
JEDPT7 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 78 2 1, Yes 22 1
Total 100 3
IF JEDPT7 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS7 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
JEDTUT7 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 78 2 1, Yes 22 1
Total 100 3
JEDDYC7 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 3
Total 100 3
JEDOVC7 114 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 22 1 1, Yes 78 2
Total 100 3
IF HHCHGRD7 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG7 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 3
Total 100 3
IF HHCHGRD7 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR7 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
IF HHCHJEWED8 = YES (1), The following questions are about the eighth child.
JEDPT8 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 74 1 1, Yes 26 1
Total 100 2
IF JEDPT1 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS8 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
JEDTUT8 115 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
JEDDYC8 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
JEDOVC8 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 26 1 1, Yes 74 1
Total 100 2
IF HHCHGRD8 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG8 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHCHGRD8 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR8 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 1
Total 100 1
IF HHCHJEWED9 = YES (1), The following questions are about the ninth child.
JEDPT9 Is the child currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n 116
0, No 74 1 1, Yes 26 1
Total 100 2
IF JEDPT9 = NO (0), Ask: JEDDS9 Is the child currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 1
Total 100 1
JEDTUT9 Since June 2016, did this child participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
JEDDYC9 Did this child attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
JEDOVC9 Did this child attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member) Response Weighted % n
0, No 26 1 1, Yes 74 1
Total 100 2
117 IF HHCHGRD9 = GRADES 6-12, other (6-13), ask: JEDYG9 Does this child participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHCHGRD9 = GRADES 9-12, other (9-13), ask: JEDISR9 Has this child ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHADJEWED2 = YES (1), The following questions are about the first adult child in high school.
IF HHADJEWED2 = YES (1), ask: JEDADPT2 Is this person currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
IF HHADJEWED2 = YES (1) and JEDADPT2 = NO (0) or skip, Ask: JEDADDS2 Is this person currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED2 = YES (1), ask: JEDADTUT2 Since June 2016, did this person participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes? (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 15 1 1, Yes 85 1
Total 100 2
118 HHADJEWED2 = YES (1), ask: JEDADDYC2 Did this person attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED2 = YES (1), ask: JEDADOVC2 Did this person attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED2 = YES (1), ask: JEDADYG2 Does this person participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 1 1, Yes 15 1
Total 100 2
JEDADISR2 Has this person ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 1 1, Yes 15 1
Total 100 2
IF HHADJEWED3 = YES (1), The following questions are about the second adult child in high school.
119 IF HHADJEWED3 = YES (1), ask: JEDADPT3 Is this person currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 3
Total 100 3
IF HHADJEWED3 = YES (1) and JEDADPT3 = NO (0) or skip, Ask: JEDADDS3 Is this person currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 2 1, Yes 15 1
Total 100 3
HHADJEWED3 = YES (1), ask: JEDADTUT3 Since June 2016, did this person participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes? (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 2 1, Yes 15 1
Total 100 3
HHADJEWED3 = YES (1), ask: JEDADDYC3 Did this person attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 2 1, Yes 15 1
Total 100 3
120 HHADJEWED3 = YES (1), ask: JEDADOVC3 Did this person attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 2 1, Yes 15 1
Total 100 3
HHADJEWED3 = YES (1), ask: JEDADYG3 Does this person participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 15 1 1, Yes 85 2
Total 100 3
JEDADISR3 Has this person ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 46 2 1, Yes 54 1
Total 100 3
IF HHADJEWED4 = YES (1), The following questions are about the third adult child in high school.
IF HHADJEWED4 = YES (1), ask: JEDADPT3 Is this person currently enrolled in a Jewish part-time school like J Line, a Hebrew School, Religious School, or Sunday School? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
121 IF HHADJEWED4 = YES (1) and JEDADPT4 = NO (0) or skip, Ask: JEDADDS4 Is this person currently enrolled in a full-time Jewish day school or yeshiva? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED4 = YES (1), ask: JEDADTUT4 Since June 2016, did this person participate in other forms of Jewish education, like tutoring or private classes? (e.g., Hebrew language tutoring, online classes, etc.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 2
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED4 = YES (1), ask: JEDADDYC4 Did this person attend a Jewish day camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 50 1 1, Yes 50 1
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED4 = YES (1), ask: JEDADOVC4 Did this person attend a Jewish overnight camp in the summer of 2016? (This includes attendance as a camper or staff member.) Response Weighted % n
0, No 50 1 1, Yes 50 1
Total 100 2
HHADJEWED4 = YES (1), ask: JEDADYG4 Does this person participate in a Jewish youth group or teen program (such as BBYO, NFTY, USY, NCSY)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 50 1 1, Yes 50 1
Total 100 2 122
JEDADISR4 Has this person ever gone on a peer trip to Israel with a camp, school, youth group, or teen program? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes 100 2
Total 100 2
JEWISH EDUCATION CHOICES
Which of the following are reasons that your {child / children} in grades K-12 did not attend a Jewish camp in summer 2016?
WNOCMPWHY_COST Cost Response Weighted % n
0, No 74 80 1, Cost 26 33
Total 100 113
WNOCMPWHY_AGE No age-appropriate option Response Weighted % n
0, No 99 108 1, No age-appropriate option < 1 5
Total 100 113
WNOCMPWHY_NOINT Lack of interest Response Weighted % n
0, No 55 68 1, Lack of interest 45 45
Total 100 113
WNOCMPWHY_PREF Preference for other activities Response Weighted % n
0, No 44 64 1, Preference for other activities 56 49
Total 100 113 123
WNOCMPWHY_OTH Other, please specify: Response Weighted % n
0, No 80 91 1, Other, please specify: 20 22
Total 100 113
WNOCMPWHY_OTHTXT 22 responses YOUNG ADULTS
PROGRAMMER IF RESPAGE < 45 AND (RESPHS = NO (0) OR RESPHS=missing) AND RJEWISH = 1, SET RESPYA=1
We would like to know more about your background and interests. If RESPYA=1, ask: YASTUD Are you currently a student in a degree-granting program in a college or university? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, full-time 18 23 2, Yes, part-time 5 14 3, No 76 194
Total 100 231
IF YASTUD = YES (1, 2), ask: YADEG What level of schooling are you currently enrolled in? Response Weighted % n
2, Bachelor’s degree 68 17 3, Master’s degree 17 12 4, J.D. or other legal degree 9 2 7, Doctoral degree 5 5 8, Other, please specify: 2 1
Total 100 37
124 YADEG_OTH 1 response
IF MARRIED=0 and RESPYA=1, Ask: YASIGOTH Do you currently have a fiancé/e, partner or significant other who does not live with you? Response Weighted % n
0, No 92 55 1, Yes 8 13
Total 100 68
IF YASIGOTH= Yes(1), Ask: YARELRELIG What is the religion of your significant other? {CATI: READ RESPONSES ONLY IF NEEDED} Response Weighted % n
1, Jewish 54 5 2, Christian 28 5 3, No religion 18 3
Total 100 13
IF YASIGOTH= No(0), Ask: YADATEJ If you date, how important is it to you to date someone Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, Not important 4 5 2, A little important 38 10 3, Somewhat important 31 16 4, Very important 24 21 5, I do not date 3 3
Total 100 55
125 IF MARRIED=0 and RESPYA=1, Ask: YAMARJ If you plan to get married, how important is to you to marry someone Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, Not important 5 9 2, A little important 37 7 3, Somewhat important 27 21 4, Very important 26 27 5, I do not plan to get married 5 4
Total 100 68
IF RESPISPARENT=0 and RESPYA=1, Ask: YAKIDSJ If you plan to have children, how important is it to you to raise your children Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, Not important 7 3 2, A little important 2 3 3, Somewhat important 31 18 4, Very important 53 65 5, I do not plan to have children 6 10
Total 100 99
RELIGIOUS LIFE
The next questions ask about your involvement in Jewish religious and ritual activities. RLSYNANY Do you or anyone in your household currently belong to a Jewish congregation, such as a synagogue, temple, minyan, chavurah, or High Holy Day congregation? Response Weighted % n
0, No 65 295 1, Yes 35 903
Total 100 1198
126 IF RLSYNANY=No (0), Ask: RLSYNEVER Did you ever belong to a Jewish congregation during your adult life?
Response Weighted % n
0, No 59 122 1, Yes 41 157
Total 100 279
IF RLSYNEVER = YES (1), Ask: RLSYNEVER_WHEN About how old were you when you last belonged to a Jewish congregation? Response Weighted % n
18-29 years old 9 19 30-39 years old 26 22 40-49 years old 30 38 50-59 years old 16 35 60+ years old 11 36 999, DK/REF 9 4
Total 100 154
IF RLSYNEVER = YES (1), Ask: RLSYNEVER_WHERE Was that Jewish congregation in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Response Weighted % n
0, No 19 22 1, Yes 81 134
Total 100 156
IF RLSYNANY = NO (0), ask: Which of the following are reasons that you do not belong to a Jewish congregation?
RLSYNNVRWHY_PRIOR Not a priority Response Weighted % n
0, No 75 186 1, Not a priority 25 109
Total 100 295
127 RLSYNNVRWHY_RELIG You’re not religious Response Weighted % n
0, No 55 169 1, You’re not religious 45 126
Total 100 295
RLSYNNVRWHY_KIDS No kids at home Response Weighted % n
0, No 88 184 1, No kids at home 12 48
Total 100 232
RLSYNNVRWHY_COST Cost Response Weighted % n
0, No 75 198 1, Cost 25 97
Total 100 295
RLSYNNVRWHY_FIT Haven’t found a good fit Response Weighted % n
0, No 83 218 1, Haven’t found a good fit 17 77
Total 100 295
RLSYNNVRWHY_OTH Other, please specify: Response Weighted % n
0, No 86 262 1, Other 14 33
Total 100 295
RLSYNNVRWHY_OTHTXT 58 responses
128 IF RLSYNANY=1: RLSYNNUMB How many Jewish congregations in the Greater Pittsburgh area do you or anyone in your household belong to? Response Weighted % n
0 19 17 1 73 774 2 7 96 3 < 1 13 4 < 1 3
Total 100 903
IF RLSYNNUMB>0: For each congregation, please indicate its name, location, the number of years you have been a member, and whether or not you pay dues. Thinking of the first congregation in the Pittsburgh area… RLSYNNAME1 What is the congregation’s name? 878 responses
RLSYNCITY1 What city is it in? 881 responses
RLSYNYRS1 How many years have you been a member? Response Weighted % n
0-9 years 38 228 10-19 years 22 179 20-29 years 18 155 30-39 years 9 118 40+ years 14 192 DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 873
RLSYNDUES1 Do you pay dues? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, I pay dues of some sort 85 804 2, No, dues are not required for membership 11 30 3, No, I consider myself a member but do not pay 4 40 dues 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 875
129 RLSYNNAME2 Thinking of the second congregation in the Pittsburgh area… What is the congregation’s name? 107 responses
RLSYNCITY2 What city is it in? 107 responses
RLSYNYRS2 How many years have you been a member? Response Weighted % n
0-9 years 39 41 10-19 years 28 32 20-29 years 12 12 30-39 years 5 9 40+ years 15 11 DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 106
RLSYNDUES2 Do you pay dues? [CATI: READ LIST IF NEEDED. PROBE IF ANSWER IS NO.] Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, I pay dues of some sort 71 71 2, No, dues are not required for membership 9 16 3, No, I consider myself a member but do not pay 16 18 dues 999, DK/REF 4 1
Total 100 106
RLSYNNAME3 Thinking of the third congregation in the Pittsburgh area… What is the congregation’s name? 15 responses
RLSYNCITY3 What city is it in? 15 responses
130 RLSYNYRS3 How many years have you been a member? Response Weighted % n
0-9 years 41 7 10-19 years 15 4 20-29 years 30 2 30-39 years 7 1 40+ years 7 1
Total 100 15
RLSYNDUES3 Do you pay dues? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, I pay dues of some sort 21 6 2, No, dues are not required for membership 43 5 3, No, I consider myself a member but do not pay 36 4 dues
Total 100 15
RLSYNNAME4 Thinking of the fourth congregation in the Pittsburgh area… What is the congregation’s name? 3 responses
RLSYNCITY4 What city is it in? 3 responses
RLSYNYRS4 How many years have you been a member? Response Weighted % n
0-9 years 23 2 10-19 years 77 1
Total 100 3
RLSYNDUES4 Do you pay dues? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, I pay dues of some sort 5 1 2, No, dues are not required for membership 95 2
Total 100 3
131 RLSYNSVC Aside from special occasions like weddings and funerals, how often do you attend any type of organized Jewish religious services? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 30 132 2, Once or twice a year 27 293 3, Every few months 18 265 4, About once a month 7 143 5, Two or three times a month 6 115 6, Once a week or more 11 219 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1168
RLSHAB How often do you or anyone in your household light Shabbat candles on a Friday night? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 61 478 2, Sometimes 19 362 3, Usually 8 117 4, Always 13 233
Total 100 1190
RLYKFAST Did you fast during Yom Kippur in 2016? Would you say you… Response Weighted % n
1, Fasted for the whole day 41 601 2, Fasted for part of the day 15 159 3, Could not fast for medical reasons 10 183 4, Did not fast 34 222
Total 100 1165
RLSEDER In a typical year, do you or anyone in your household attend or hold a Passover Seder? Response Weighted % n
0, No 29 116 1, Yes 71 1076
Total 100 1192
RLHCNDL In a typical year, do you or anyone in your household light Hanukkah candles? Response Weighted % n 132
0, No 23 118 1, Yes 77 1072
Total 100 1190
IF RLSYNSVC = once or twice a year to once a week or more (2-6), ask: RLHOLHIGH Did you attend any High Holy Day services in fall 2016? Response Weighted % n
0, No 26 120 1, Yes 74 911
Total 100 1031
IF (RLSYNSVC = once or twice a year to once a week or more (2-6) OR RLSYNANY = YES (1) OR RLSYNEVER = YES (1)), ask: RLSCOMF Thinking about the last time you attended Jewish religious services , to what extent did you feel comfortable?
Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 3 27 2, A little 14 91 3, Somewhat 26 243 4, Very much 57 741
Total 100 1102
IF (RLSYNSVC = once or twice a year to once a week or more (2-6) OR RLSYNANY = YES (1) OR RLSYNEVER = YES (1)), ask: RLSNEEDS Thinking about the last time you attended Jewish religious services , to what extent were your spiritual needs met?
Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 13 108 2, A little 21 179 3, Somewhat 41 390 4, Very much 25 414 999, DK/REF < 1 5
Total 100 1096
IF (RLSYNSVC = once or twice a year to once a week or more (2-6) OR RLSYNANY = YES (1) OR RLSYNEVER = YES (1)), ask: RLSDIS Thinking about the last time you attended Jewish religious services , to what extent did you feel disconnected from the people there? CATI: READ IF NEEDED.
Response Weighted % n
133 1, Not at all 38 534 2, A little 24 234 3, Somewhat 25 239 4, Very much 13 89 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1097
RLKOSH Which of the following best describes your current practices regarding keeping kosher? Would you say you… Response Weighted % n
1, Don't follow kosher rules at all 60 635 2, Follow some kosher rules, like avoiding pork or 24 262 shellfish 3, Keep kosher only at home 4 96 4, Keep kosher all the time 11 169 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1163
JEWISH LIFE The next questions ask about your involvement in other aspects of Jewish life.
IF ISRRESP=0, Ask: JLHEB If you were asked to read a text in Hebrew, how much would you understand? Would you say you… Response Weighted % n
1, Don't know Hebrew alphabet at all 33 222 2, Can read the letters but not understand the 28 388 words 3, Can understand some of what you read 33 383 4, Can understand most of what you read 5 86 5, Can understand everything you read 1 30
Total 100 1109
134 JLCULTURE To you personally, to what extent is being Jewish a matter of culture? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 6 41 2, A little 12 74 3, Somewhat 28 281 4, Very much 54 759 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1157
JLETHNIC To you personally, to what extent is being Jewish a matter of ethnicity? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 12 115 2, A little 15 118 3, Somewhat 28 340 4, Very much 42 574 999, DK/REF 2 6
Total 100 1153
JLRELIG To you personally, to what extent is being Jewish a matter of religion? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 13 62 2, A little 17 136 3, Somewhat 30 324 4, Very much 39 624 999, DK/REF < 1 5
Total 100 1151
JLCOMM To you personally, to what extent is being Jewish a matter of community? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 8 50 2, A little 12 128 3, Somewhat 42 387 4, Very much 38 582 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1149
135 JLFRIEND How many of the people you consider to be your closest friends are Jewish? Response Weighted % n
1, None 6 80 2, Some 41 392 3, About half 16 251 4, Most 30 361 5, All 7 70 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1156
JLESSJUSTICE Thinking about what being Jewish means to you, how important is working for justice and equality? Response Weighted % n
1, Essential 59 703 2, Important but not essential 32 388 3, Not important 9 59 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1151
JLESSMORAL Thinking about what being Jewish means to you, how important is leading a moral and ethical life? Response Weighted % n
1, Essential 81 968 2, Important but not essential 18 169 3, Not important < 1 13 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1151
JLANTILOCAL How concerned are you about antisemitism in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 13 154 2, A little 35 365 3, Somewhat 33 406 4, Very much 16 225 999, DK/REF 2 3
Total 100 1153
JLANTIEXP Have you PERSONALLY experienced antisemitism in the PAST YEAR? Response Weighted % n 136
0, No 84 1015 1, Yes 15 133 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 1151
IF JLANTIEXP = YES (1), Ask: JLANTIEXPTXT Please describe the incident(s) 109 responses
JLCONNISR To what extent do you feel a connection to Israel? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 17 120 2, A little 21 214 3, Somewhat 30 346 4, Very much 33 470 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1151
JLCONNWORLD To what extent do you feel like part of a worldwide Jewish community? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 14 49 2, A little 21 219 3, Somewhat 39 391 4, Very much 26 489
Total 100 1148
JLCONNFEEL To what extent do you feel that being Jewish is part of your daily life? {CATI: READ LIST IF NEEDED} Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 13 82 2, A little 33 224 3, Somewhat 27 330 4, Very much 27 511 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1149
JLCONNLOC To what extent do you feel like part of the Jewish community in Greater Pittsburgh? {CATI: READ LIST IF NEEDED.} Response Weighted % n
137 1, Not at all 29 107 2, A little 29 277 3, Somewhat 25 394 4, Very much 18 369 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1148
JLCONNLOCIMP To what extent do you think it is important to feel connected to the Jewish community in Greater Pittsburgh? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 18 56 2, A little 19 188 3, Somewhat 36 438 4, Very much 27 463 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1146
SUBPOPULATIONS
The following questions will help to understand the views of members of the community and are used for classification purposes.
INTERHH Are you or anyone in your household currently in an interfaith relationship? Response Weighted % n
0, No 88 849 1, Yes 12 139 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 990
138 INTERWELC Overall, in your opinion, how welcoming is the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community to interfaith families? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 3 21 2, A little 6 93 3, Somewhat 31 427 4, Very much 17 240 5, No opinion 42 348 999, DK/REF < 1 13
Total 100 1142
IF HHADNUM = 1 OR ROOMMATE=1, Ask: GLBRESP Do you consider yourself to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual? Response Weighted % n
0, No 95 241 1, Yes 5 15
Total 100 256
IF HHSIZE>1 AND ROOMMATE=0, ask: GLBHH Does anyone in your household consider themselves to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, you < 1 13 2, Yes, someone else 3 35 3, Yes, you and someone else 1 12 4, No 95 860
Total 100 920
IF (GLBHH= Yes, someone else (2) or Yes, me and someone else (3)) AND HHADNUM > 1, ask: GLBCT How many adults consider themselves to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual? Response Weighted % n
0 7 6 1 93 41
Total 100 47
139 GLBWELC Overall, in your opinion, how welcoming is the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community to people who are gay, lesbian, or bisexual? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all 2 13 2, A little 8 110 3, Somewhat 24 398 4, Very much 17 190 5, No opinion 44 407 999, DK/REF 5 20
Total 100 1138
POLPARTY In politics today, do you consider yourself a…? Response Weighted % n
1, Republican 11 151 2, Democrat 62 789 3, Independent 16 134 4, Libertarian 1 17 5, Green < 1 2 6, Other, please specify: 5 33 999, DK/REF 4 9
Total 100 1135
POLPARTY_OTH 30 responses
IF HHSIZE = 1 OR ROOMMATE=1, Ask: RACERESP Do you consider yourself to be a person of color or of Hispanic or Latino origin? Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 237 1, Yes < 1 3
Total 100 240
140 IF HHSIZE>1 AND ROOMMATE=0, ask: RACEHH Does anyone in your household consider themselves to be a person of color or of Hispanic or Latino origin? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, you < 1 10 2, Yes, someone else 2 24 3, Yes, you and someone else < 1 1 4, No 96 884 999, DK/REF 1 1
Total 100 920
Regarding the Jewish ethnicity of your household, do you consider it to be Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrachi, or something else?
HHSEPH_ASH Ashkenazi Response Weighted % n
0, No 32 185 1, Ashkenazi 68 983
Total 100 1168
HHSEPH_SEPH Sephardi Response Weighted % n
0, No 93 1087 1, Sephardi 7 81
Total 100 1168
HHSEPH_MIZ Mizrachi Response Weighted % n
0, No 95 1160 1, Mizrahi 5 8
Total 100 1168
141 HHSEPH_OTH Other, please specify: Response Weighted % n
0, No 98 1144 1, Other, please specify: 2 24
Total 100 1168
HHSEPH_OTHTXT 24 responses ISRAEL
We would like to know more about your connection to Israel.
IF ISRRESP=0, Ask: ISRNUM How many times, if any, have you been to Israel? Response Weighted % n
0, Never 42 353 1, Once 25 301 2, Twice 10 127 3, Three times 4 79 4, Four times or more 15 191 5, I/You previously lived in Israel 4 38
Total 100 1089
If ISRRESP=0 AND ISRNUM= 1-5, Ask: Did you ever participate in the following types of trips to Israel? (select all that apply)
ISRTRAVTYPE_BIRTH Birthright Israel Response Weighted % n
0, No 60 90 1, Birthright Israel 40 60
Total 100 150
142 ISRTRAVTYPE_EDU Educational program or volunteer trip Response Weighted % n
0, No 72 533 1, Educational program or volunteer trip 28 202
Total 100 735
ISRTRAVTYPE_FED A trip sponsored by a federation, synagogue, or other Jewish organizations Response Weighted % n
0, No 68 415 1, A trip sponsored by a federation, synagogue, or 32 320 other Jewish organizations
Total 100 735
IF ISRNUM=Never(0), Ask: Which of the following are reasons you have never been to Israel?
ISRNVRWHY_SAFETY Safety concerns Response Weighted % n
0, No 71 250 1, Safety concerns 29 103
Total 100 353
ISRNVRWHY_COST Cost Response Weighted % n
0, No 57 204 1, Cost 43 149
Total 100 353
ISRNVRWHY_NOTHOUGHT Never thought about it Response Weighted % n
0, No 83 337 1, Never thought about it 17 16
Total 100 353
143 ISRNVRWHY_NOINT No interest Response Weighted % n
0, No 82 300 1, No interest 18 53
Total 100 353
ISRNVRWHY_NOTRAVL You don’t like to travel Response Weighted % n
0, No 93 319 1, You don’t like to travel 7 34
Total 100 353
IF ISRRESP=0 AND RESPAGE < 46 AND (ISRTRAVTYPE NOT Birthright Israel (1)1 OR ISRNUM = NEVER (0)), Ask: ISRTAG Did you ever apply to go on a Birthright Israel trip? Response Weighted % n
0, No 95 140 1, Yes 5 10
Total 100 150
ISRRELFRIEND: Do you have relatives or close friends living in Israel? Response Weighted % n
1, Relatives 19 229 2, Friends 15 192 3, Both friends and relatives 19 238 4, Neither friends nor relatives 47 477 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1138
144 ISRNEWS In the past month, how often did you actively seek out news about Israel? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 24 220 2, Once or twice 28 290 3, Once a week 19 157 4, Every few days 15 209 5, Once a day 9 179 6, Several times a day 4 80 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1137
ISRCONSUL To the best of your knowledge, is there an Israeli consulate in Pittsburgh? Response Weighted % n
0, No 26 417 1, Yes 5 73 3, Not sure 69 648
Total 100 1138
ISRPART To the best of your knowledge, does Pittsburgh have a partnership region or sister city in Israel? Response Weighted % n
0, No 5 29 1, Yes 48 736 3, Not sure 46 366 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1132
IF ISRPART=yes(1), Ask: ISRPARTNAME What is the partnership region? 638 responses
145 ORGANIZATIONS
The next questions ask about your participation in organizations, programs, and activities.
ORGJCCNOW Are you or anyone in your household currently a member of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, and you pay dues 20 280 2, Yes, and you do not pay dues 10 123 3, No 70 754
Total 100 1157
ORGMEM Aside from congregations and JCCs, are you or anyone in your household a member of any formal Jewish organizations or clubs (such as Hadassah, ADL, AJC, etc.)? Response Weighted % n
0, No 75 705 1, Yes 21 445 999, DK/REF 5 3
Total 100 1153
ORGGROUPS Do you or anyone in your household belong to an informal or grassroots Jewish group such as a social havurah}, Jewish book club, etc.? Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 963 1, Yes 10 192 999, DK/REF 5 1
Total 100 1156
ORGDUES In the past year, have you paid dues to a Jewish organization aside from a synagogue or the JCC? Response Weighted % n
0, No 76 758 1, Yes 24 371 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1131
146 ORGPARTPITT In the past YEAR, either for or with a Jewish organization, did you attend or participate in a program, event, or class (not for religious services)? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, at least once a month 11 204 2, Yes, less than once a month 34 485 3, No 55 442
Total 100 1131
ORGREADPITT In the past YEAR, either for or with a Jewish organization, did you read material produced by a Jewish organization (such as a newsletter, magazine, website, etc.)? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, at least once a month 36 638 2, Yes, less than once a month 32 303 3, No 32 186 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 1130
VOLBOARD In the past MONTH, either for or with a Jewish organization, did you help in a leadership role such as serving on a committee or board or planning an event or program? Response Weighted % n
0, No 85 764 1, Yes 15 362 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1127
VOLPART In the past MONTH, either for or with a Jewish organization, did you help as a participant such as tutoring, serving meals at a soup kitchen, or attending a rally? Response Weighted % n
0, No 93 970 1, Yes 7 158 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1129
147 VOLNJ In the past MONTH, did you volunteer for or with any non-Jewish organizations? Do not include activities sponsored by a Jewish organization.
Response Weighted % n
0, No 72 769 1, Yes 28 357 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1127
ORGIMPEDU Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important is education? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important < 1 2 2, A little important 2 18 3, Somewhat important 15 131 4, Very important 83 976
Total 100 1127
ORGIMPCULT Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important are arts and culture? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important 1 22 2, A little important 8 85 3, Somewhat important 30 319 4, Very important 61 696 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1123
ORGIMPISR Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important is Israel? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important 4 42 2, A little important 22 122 3, Somewhat important 20 271 4, Very important 52 685 999, DK/REF < 1 4
Total 100 1124
148 ORGIMPPOL Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important is politics? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important 1 21 2, A little important 13 110 3, Somewhat important 27 282 4, Very important 58 705 999, DK/REF < 1 6
Total 100 1124
ORGIMPSJ Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important is social justice? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important 3 25 2, A little important 5 58 3, Somewhat important 19 222 4, Very important 73 815 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1122
ORGIMPHLTH Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important is health or medicine? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important < 1 5 2, A little important 3 45 3, Somewhat important 18 200 4, Very important 79 873 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1124
ORGIMPENV Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important is the environment? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important 2 15 2, A little important 14 99 3, Somewhat important 19 289 4, Very important 65 718 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1122
149 ORGIMPWR Thinking about any causes that interest you, both inside and outside the Jewish community, how important are women’s rights? Response Weighted % n
1, Not at all important 2 26 2, A little important 4 58 3, Somewhat important 22 191 4, Very important 72 843 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1120
Do you get your information about local Jewish activities, news, and events from... (Please select all that apply.)
ORGINFO_SYN Synagogue or organization newsletter/email Response Weighted % n
0, No 56 387 1, Synagogue or organization newsletter/email 44 738
Total 100 1125
ORGINFO_JCHRON The Jewish Chronicle or other local Jewish periodical Response Weighted % n
0, No 68 537 1, The Jewish Chronicle or other local Jewish 32 588 periodical
Total 100 1125
ORGINFO_RABBI A rabbi or other Jewish community leader Response Weighted % n
0, No 80 702 1, A rabbi or other Jewish community leader 20 423
Total 100 1125
150 ORGINFO_FAM Family or friends Response Weighted % n
0, No 49 432 1, Family or friends 51 693
Total 100 1125
ORGINFO_WEB Internet or social media Response Weighted % n
0, No 44 362 1, Internet or social media 56 763
Total 100 1125
ORGTRAVEL How long would you be willing to travel on a regular basis to attend a Jewish program or activity not related to your work or school, if at all? Response Weighted % n
0, Not willing to travel 17 108 1, Less than 10 minutes 9 99 2, 10-20 minutes 36 419 3, 21-40 minutes 29 371 4, 41-60 minutes 7 69 5, Over one hour 2 38 999, DK/REF < 1 8
Total 100 1112
151 ACTIVITIES
We would like to ask you about some of the other activities that you do.
ACTSHABDIN In the past month, for how many weeks did you have or attend a special meal for Shabbat?
Response Weighted % n
1, Never 69 630 2, One week 9 188 3, Two or three weeks 8 99 4, Every week 13 197 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1116
ACTFOOD In the past month, how often did you eat Jewish foods, aside from Shabbat and holiday meals? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 32 259 2, Once or twice 29 394 3, Once a week 10 158 4, Every few days 11 165 5, Once a day or more 18 128 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 1107
ACTTALK In the past month, how often did you talk about Jewish topics (such as culture, Israel, religion, etc.)? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 14 88 2, Once or twice 39 315 3, Once a week 16 207 4, Every few days 19 285 5, Once a day or more 12 218 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1115
152 ACTCONTENT In the past month, how often did you look for Jewish information online? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 34 305 2, Once or twice 31 321 3, Once a week 14 106 4, Every few days 10 197 5, Once a day or more 11 181 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1112
ACTENT In the past month, how often did you access Jewish-focused culture (such as books, TV, music, or a museum)? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 51 430 2, Once or twice 30 379 3, Once a week 7 113 4, Every few days 8 108 5, Once a day or more 5 78 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1110
ACTTEXT In the past month, how often did you study a Jewish religious text (such as the Torah or Talmud)? Response Weighted % n
1, Never 75 697 2, Once or twice 12 175 3, Once a week 5 115 4, Every few days 2 51 5, Once a day or more 5 69
Total 100 1107
153 PHILANTHROPY
The next section is about charitable donations. CHARANY Over the past year, did you make any charitable donations? Please include donations to both Jewish and non-Jewish organizations. Response Weighted % n
0, No 7 72 1, Yes 93 1036 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1110
If CHARANY=1, Ask: PCHARANYAMT About how much have you donated to charitable organizations in the past year? [CATI: READ LIST IF NECESSARY] Response Weighted % n
1, Under $100 14 91 2, $100 to $2,499 45 412 3, $2,500 to $4,999 13 148 4, $5,000 or more 13 243 5, I prefer not to answer [DK/REF] 14 140
Total 100 1034
IF CHARANY=1, Ask: CHARJEW Over the past year, which of the following best describes the charities to which you made monetary contributions, other than membership dues? Response Weighted % n
1, All Jewish 5 61 2, Mostly Jewish 20 318 3, About equal 25 314 4, Mostly non-Jewish 33 263 5, All non-Jewish 18 74 999, DK/REF < 1 2
Total 100 1032
154 IF CHARJEW= ANY JEWISH (1,2,3, or 4), Ask: CHARLOCAL How many of the Jewish organizations you donated to primarily serve the Greater Pittsburgh area? Response Weighted % n
1, All 24 147 2, Most 31 319 3, About half 7 118 4, Some 21 247 5, None 17 120 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 954
CHARINC In the coming year, do you expect your charitable giving, both in and outside the Jewish community, to… Response Weighted % n
1, Decrease 4 62 2, Stay the same 81 871 3, Increase 15 165 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 1101
HEALTH AND WELL BEING
The next section asks for information about health and well-being so that the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community can understand the needs of its members.
IF RESPAGE<75, Ask: PHLCAREAGE Do you or your spouse or partner manage care or personally provide care on a regular basis for an aging relative in a household other than your own? Response Weighted % n
0, No 91 788 1, Yes 9 125
Total 100 913
155 IF PHLCAREAGE=Yes (1), Ask: PHLPARLOC Do they live in the Greater Pittsburgh area? Response Weighted % n
0, No 5 20 1, Yes 95 105
Total 100 125
IF RESPAGE<75, Ask: PHLPARNH Do you or your spouse or partner have a parent who is currently a resident of an assisted living facility, nursing home, or an independent living building or community? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, in Greater Pittsburgh 4 52 2, Yes, elsewhere 3 47 3, Yes, both < 1 2 4, No 93 808
Total 100 909
IF RESPAGE>=65, Ask: PHLRESPNH Do you currently reside in an assisted living facility, nursing home, or an independent living building or community? Response Weighted % n
0, No 93 473 1, Yes 7 18
Total 100 491
PHLHEALTHRESP Describe your overall health. Is it... Response Weighted % n
1, Excellent 28 302 2, Very Good 39 417 3, Good 22 285 4, Fair 7 101 5, Poor 4 18
Total 100 1123
156 IF HHADNUM>1, Ask: PHLHEALTHAD Besides yourself, are there any adults in the household in fair or poor health? Response Weighted % n
0, No 79 767 1, Yes 21 115
Total 100 882
IF HHCHNUM > 0, Ask: PHLHEALTHKID Are there any children in the household in fair or poor health? Response Weighted % n
0, No 98 259 1, Yes 2 10
Total 100 269
PHLINSURANCE Do you currently have health insurance? Response Weighted % n
0, No 3 13 1, Yes 97 1113
Total 100 1126
IF (ANY HHADAGE2-HHADAGE9 < 65 OR IF HHCHNUM > 0), Ask: PHLCARE Do you manage care or personally provide care on a regular basis for a non-elderly family member in fair or poor health living in your household, aside from routine childcare? Response Weighted % n
0, No 98 554 1, Yes 2 22
Total 100 576
157 PHLIMPFUNC Are you or anyone in your household limited in the kind or amount of work, school, or housework you can do because of any impairment, disability, or chronic physical or mental health problem? Response Weighted % n
0, No 75 867 1, Yes 25 251
Total 100 1118
IF PHLIMPFUNC= YES (1), Ask: PHLIMPFUNCMET Did you receive all services needed to help? Response Weighted % n
0, No 26 51 1, Yes 42 126 3, No services needed 32 74
Total 100 251
PHLMENT During the past year, did you or anyone in your household need counseling or other mental health services? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, and they were received 32 306 2, Yes, and they were not received 6 27 3, No services were needed 63 786
Total 100 1119
HLJEWLIFE In the past year, were you or anyone in your household ever unable to participate in Jewish life because of constraints caused by chronic health, mental health, or disability? Response Weighted % n
0, No 73 807 1, Yes 8 109 3, Does not apply 19 202
Total 100 1118
If HLJEWLIFE=1, Ask: HLJEWLIFE_TXT In what way: 99 responses
158 LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION & FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
The next section is about your employment.
WBEMP Are you currently working for pay? Response Weighted % n
1, Yes, full-time 50 496 2, Yes, part-time 11 167 3, No, not working 11 71 4, No, on temporary leave 4 15 5, No, retired 24 367
Total 100 1116
WBEMPLOOK Are you currently looking for work? Response Weighted % n
0, No 88 1018 1, Yes 12 98
Total 100 1116
IF WBEMP = ANY YES (1, 2) or WBEMPLOOK=yes(1), ask: WBWORK What kind of work do you do? Response Weighted % n
1, Legal 11 72 2, Medicine or healthcare 14 126 3, Education 14 108 4, Business and finance 16 110 5, Science, technology, engineering, or 13 74 mathematics 7, Jewish professional 4 43 8, Social services and non-profit 4 50 9, Other, please specify: 24 109 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 693
WBWORKOTH_TXT 104 responses
159 WBSTAN Which of the following words or phrases best describes your household’s standard of living? Response Weighted % n
1, Prosperous 7 158 2, Living very comfortably 26 416 3, Living reasonably comfortably 45 414 4, Just getting along 15 98 5, Nearly poor 7 15 6, Poor < 1 7 999, DK/REF < 1 4
Total 100 1112
WBRET Overall, how confident are you that you and your spouse or partner will have enough money to live comfortably throughout your retirement years? Response Weighted % n
1, Very confident 28 426 2, Somewhat confident 44 452 3, Not very confident 13 104 4, Not at all confident 11 75 99, Not sure or don’t know 5 50 999, REF < 1 1
Total 100 1108
PWBINC Was your household’s total income in 2016... Response Weighted % n
1, Less than $25,000 13 58 2, $25,000 to $49,999 14 95 3, $50,000 to $74,999 7 116 4, $75,000 to $99,999 14 91 5, $100,000 to $149,999 10 135 6, $150,000 to $199,999 3 75 7, $200,000 or more 10 197 99, I prefer not to answer 27 346
Total 100 1113
160 If WBSTAN=3,4,5,6, missing, Ask: Are you or anyone in your household currently receiving any of the following?
PWAID_SSDISSI Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Response Weighted % n
0, No 87 489 1, SSDI or SSI 13 54
Total 100 543
PWAID_ENERGY Home energy or utility assistance programs Response Weighted % n
0, No 90 528 1, Home energy or utility 10 15
Total 100 543
PWAID_WELFARE Medicaid, food stamps, subsidized housing, or daycare assistance Response Weighted % n
0, No 91 501 1, Medicaid, food stamps, subsidized housing, or 9 42 daycare assistance
Total 100 543
PWAID_UNEMP Unemployment benefits Response Weighted % n
0, No 100 537 1, Unemployment benefits < 1 6
Total 100 543
If WBSTAN=3,4,5,6, missing, Ask: In the past year, did you or anyone in your household experience economic hardship because of a change in any of the following?
161 WBHARD_JOB Employment (such as losing a job, having pay reduced, or returning to school) Response Weighted % n
0, No 91 465 1, Employment 9 78
Total 100 543
WBHARD_HOUSE Housing (such as receiving a foreclosure notice or new mortgage) Response Weighted % n
0, No 99 535 1, Housing < 1 8
Total 100 543
WBHARD_HEALTH Health (such as illness or a medical emergency) Response Weighted % n
0, No 88 491 1, Health 12 52
Total 100 543
WBHARD_FAMILY Family structure (such as the death of a relative, divorce, or a new child) Response Weighted % n
0, No 98 518 1, Family structure 2 25
Total 100 543
If WBSTAN=3,4,5,6, missing, Ask: WBSAVE3MONTH Does your household have sufficient savings to cover three months of expenses? Response Weighted % n
0, No 37 138 1, Yes 62 389 999, DK/REF < 1 9
Total 100 536
162 If WBSTAN=3,4,5,6, missing, Ask: WBRENT In the last year, did you ever have to skip a rent, mortgage, or utility bill payment because you could not afford it? Response Weighted % n
0, No 81 493 1, Yes 19 43 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 539
If WBSTAN=3,4,5,6, missing, Ask: WBSAVE400 Would your household be able to pay an unexpected $400 emergency expense with cash, money currently in a bank account, or on a credit card you could pay in full? Response Weighted % n
0, No 19 52 1, Yes 81 476 999, DK/REF < 1 7
Total 100 535
WBSCHOLARSHIP In the past year, anyone in your household receive a scholarship, financial aid, or a loan from a Jewish organization in Greater Pittsburgh?
Response Weighted % n
0, No 96 1025 1, Yes 4 86 999, DK/REF < 1 1
Total 100 1112
If WBSTAN=3,4,5,6, missing, -999 Ask: WBJEWLIFE In the past year, were you or anyone in your household ever unable to participate in Jewish life because of financial constraints? Response Weighted % n
0, No 94 482 1, Yes 5 49 999, DK/REF < 1 3
Total 100 534
163 If WBJEWLIFE=Yes(1), Ask: WBJEWLIFE_TXT In what way? 42 responses
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
We'd like to wrap up with some questions about your overall thoughts about the community.
CTSTR Overall, what do you consider to be the strengths of the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community? 845 responses
CTGAP Overall, what programs, services, or organizations do you think are missing from the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community? 724 responses
CTJORGSLENS What could local Jewish organizations do, if anything, to make your family feel more welcome in the community? 652 responses 164
Appendix E: Maps Dot Density Map of Jewish Households in the Greater Pittsburgh Area North Hills Squirrel Hill South Hills Rest of Pittsburgh ● 1 Dot = 50 Households
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Dot Density Map of Jewish Households, with a Focus on Allegheny County North Hills Squirrel Hill South Hills Rest of Pittsburgh ● 1 Dot = 50 Households
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Dot Density Map of Jewish Households, with a Focus on Allegheny County and Town Names
North Hills Squirrel Hill South Hills Rest of Pittsburgh ● 1 Dot = 50 Households
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Dot Density Map of Jewish Households with Children in Greater Pittsburgh Area Household with children 1 Dot = 20 Households ● Kids ● No kids
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Dot Density Map of Jewish Households with Children, with a Focus on Allegheny County
Household with children 1 Dot = 20 Households ● Kids ● No kids
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Dot Density Map of Members of Congregations in the Greater Pittsburgh Area Household synagogue membership 1 Dot = 20 Households ● Non-members ● Members
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Dot Density Map of Members of Congregations, with a Focus on Allegheny County Household synagogue membership 1 Dot = 20 Households ● Non-members ● Members
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Dot Density Map of Individual Engagement in the Greater Pittsburgh Area Individual engagement 1 Dot = 20 Households ● Immersed ● Connected ● Involved ● Holiday ● Minimally Involved
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Dot Density Map of Individual Engagement, with a Focus on Allegheny County Individual engagement 1 Dot = 20 Households ● Immersed ● Connected ● Involved ● Holiday ● Minimally Involved
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Appendix F: Study Documentation
Pre-Notification Letter
Dear [household] household,
You are invited to participate in a survey of the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community. The survey will help local Jewish organizations assess the needs and interests of Jews throughout the region. It is being conducted on behalf of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University with the help of Abt Associates.
Over the next several weeks, you may receive a phone call from Abt Associates about the study. If you receive a call, please answer! This survey is very important and we need to hear from people just like you. The survey is completely voluntary; however, its usefulness is dependent on honest answers and participation from members of the community. You will not be asked to donate money and your information will remain confidential. The survey will take about 25-30 minutes to complete. You must be at least 18 years old to participate.
To complete the survey online, visit the following link and enter your access code: https://www.opinionport.com/commsurvey Access Code: [TOKEN]
If you would like to have the survey link emailed to you or schedule a time to complete the survey over the phone, please call Abt Associates at 877-699-4344 or email [email protected]. If you have questions about the study, please contact the research team at Brandeis at 781-736-2964 or email us at [email protected]. To be in touch in with the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, contact Raimy Rubin at 412-992-5241 or by email at [email protected]. For background information about how the Cohen Center conducts community studies, please visit our website, http://bit.ly/cmjsstudy. You may also contact the Brandeis Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (781-736-8133, [email protected]). This committee works to safeguard the interests of individuals who participate in Brandeis- sponsored research. Results from the study will be available at the end of the year.
We would like to thank you in advance for your participation in this important research.
Sincerely,
Matthew Boxer, PhD Assistant Research Professor, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies
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Briefing Materials for Interviewers
Interviewers received both written materials about the survey and formal training in best practices for collecting survey responses, the names and functions of Jewish institutions in Greater Pittsburgh, how to pronounce those names, and key terms they were likely to have to pronounce while asking survey questions or that they could expect to hear from respondents.
Briefing Materials for 2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study
The contents of this file will help callers and supervisors for the 2017 Greater Pittsburgh Jewish Community Study better understand the questions on the survey and respondents’ answers. If you have any questions that are not addressed by the material in this file, please contact the Cohen Center for clarification.
Matthew Boxer, PI (Pittsburgh) Tel: (781) 736-3968 Email: [email protected]
Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies Brandeis University, MS 014 415 South Street Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Web: www.brandeis.edu/cmjs [email protected]
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Jewish Holidays Cheat Sheet
Chanukah/Hanukkah (Ha-noo-ka or Kha-noo-ka): Festival of Lights, usually celebrated in December. (Traditions: Lighting a menorah; eating jelly donuts and latkes; playing with dreidels.)
High Holidays: Also sometimes referred to as the “High Holy Days.” Refers to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (both defined below).
Lag Ba’Omer (Lahg bah-oh-mair): 33rd day of a seven-week period beginning on the second day of Passover and ending the day before Shavuot (both of which are defined below). Traditionally marks the end date of a plague that killed all but five of 24,000 students of a leading rabbi of the first and second centuries CE. Referred to as Lag La’Omer by Sephardic Jews. (Traditions: bonfires, carnivals, haircuts, weddings.)
Passover (In Hebrew: Pay-sakh): Celebrating the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt in Biblical times. (Traditions: Holding/attending seders [say-dair – ritual meals and Exodus story retellings]; eating matzah.) Observed in the spring.
Purim (Poo-rim or Poo-reem): Celebrating the foiling of a plot to kill the Jews of Persia. (Traditions: dressing in costumes; throwing parties; reading the Book of Esther.) Observed in the early spring.
Rosh Hashanah (Rosh Ha-sha-na – many possible pronunciations): The Jewish New Year, celebrated in the early fall. (Traditions: Blowing the shofar [ram’s horn]; eating apples and honey.)
Shavuot (Sha-voo-oat or Shuh-voo-iss): Festival of Weeks, celebrating the Israelites receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. (Traditions: Eating cheesecake; staying up all night to learn Jewish texts.) Observed in the late spring/early summer.
Simchat Torah (Sim-khaht Toe-rah or Sim-khas Toe-rah): Often thought of as the last day of Sukkot; ending/beginning of Torah reading cycle. (Traditions: Dancing with Torah scrolls; large- scale celebration.)
Sukkot (Soo-kote or Suhk-iss): Festival of Booths, celebrated in the fall. Commemorates dwellings of Israelites during 40 years of wandering in the desert. (Traditions: Building/eating in huts or booths.)
Tisha B’Av (Ti-shah bi-Ahv or Ti-shah bi’Ahv): Day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.
Tu B’Shevat (Too Bee-shvaht): Holiday of trees, celebrated sometime in mid-winter. (Traditions: Planting trees; eating nuts, dates, figs.)
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Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Yome Ha-atz-ma-oot): Israel Independence Day, celebrated in the spring. (Traditions: Israel parades; Israel-themed parties.)
Yom Ha’Shoah (Yome Ha-sho-ah): Holocaust Remembrance Day, in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Observed in the spring (April/May).
Yom Kippur (Yome Key-poor or Yome Kipper): Day of Atonement, celebrated in fall. (Traditions: 25 hours of fasting and prayer.)
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Hebrew/Yiddish Words Cheat Sheet
Ashkenazi (Ahsh-ke-nah-zee): Refers to Jews of Eastern and Central European descent. (See also Mizrahi and Sephardi.)
Bar Mitzvah or Bat/Bas Mitzvah (Bar Mitts-vah; Bot/Bahs Mitts-vah): Age at which a Jewish child is regarded as an adult under Jewish religious law. Boys have a Bar Mitzvah (literally “son of the commandments”), traditionally at age 13; girls have a Bat Mitzvah (literally “daughter of the commandments”), traditionally at age 12. Does not require a ceremony or celebration to mark the event, but in contemporary practice often has one.
Bima (Bee-mah): Generally a raised platform or stage in a synagogue from which prayers are led and the Torah is read.
Brit Milah/Bris (Breet Mee-lah/Bris): A Jewish circumcision that occurs when the baby boy is 8 days old.
Chabad (Kha-bod): A Jewish movement that is particularly active near college campuses. Known for outreach to non-religious Jews. Sometimes known as Lubavitch after the village of its origin in Western Russia.
Challah (Kha-lah or kha-lah): Braided loaf of bread traditionally eaten during Shabbat and holiday meals.
Chametz (khuh-mitz or kha-metz): Leavened foods that Jews are traditionally forbidden to consume or even own during Passover.
Charoset (kha-row-set): A traditional food eaten during Passover, traditionally made of either apples, walnuts, spices, and wine (in Ashkenazic families) or dates, apricots, raisins, almonds or pistachios, and wine (in Sephardic families).
Chasidic/Hasidic (Kha-sid-ick): Refers to any of a variety of forms of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality through the internalization of Jewish mysticism. Chabad is the most widely recognized form of Chasidism today.
Chavurah/Havurah (Kha-voo-rah): A lay-organized Jewish prayer community. A havurah may not have an official building or rabbi, but will meet regularly for prayer.
Haggadah (huh-guh-duh): A book read during the seder (see below) to tell the story of Passover.
Kaddish (Kah-dish): Jewish prayer for the dead
Kehilla (Keh-hee-lah): Hebrew word for congregation or community
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Kiddush (Kee-doosh or kih-dish): Jewish prayer over wine recited at the beginning of Shabbat and holidays, as well as at some special events (e.g., weddings)
Ma’ariv (Mah-ah-reev): Evening prayers.
Matzah (mots-uh or mots-ah): Unleavened bread. Traditionally eaten throughout Passover, though many Jews also eat it during the year.
Mezuzah (Meh-zoo-zah or meh-zoo-zah): An encased scroll of parchment put on the doorway of a Jewish home.
Mincha (Min-khah): Afternoon prayers.
Minyan (Meen-yahn or like minion): A Jewish prayer quorum needed to conduct services.
Mizrahi (Miz-rah-khee): Refers to Jews of Middle Eastern descent. (See also Ashkenazi and Sephardi.)
Seder (seh-dehr or say-der): Ritual meal on the first night (and, outside of Israel, traditionally also on the second night) of Passover, during which the story of Passover is told.
Sephardi (Seh-far-dee): Refers to Jews of Spanish descent. (See also Ashkenazi and Mizrahi.)
Shabbat (Shah-bot): Sabbath. Begins Friday night at sundown and ends Saturday night at sundown. Traditionally a day of rest. Many respondents may use the Yiddish pronunciation, Shah-biss.
Shaharit (Shah-hah-reet): Morning prayers.
Shaliach (Shah-lee-akh): Hebrew word for emissary, refers to an Israeli sent to live among a local Jewish community as a representative of Israel.
Shivah (Shi-vah): A seven-day period of mourning observed by the loved one’s family. Friends and neighbors will bring over food and comfort the family during the week.
Shtetl (Shteh-tull): Typically refers to a small town with a large Jewish population in Eastern or Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries before World War II. In popular usage, may refer to a neighborhood with a disproportionate Jewish population. (Classic example: Fiddler on the Roof.)
Shul (Shool): Refers to a Jewish congregation, usually a synagogue.
Siddur (See-duer or sih-derr): A Jewish prayer book.
Tallit (Tah-leet or tah-liss): A Jewish prayer shawl, traditionally worn by men during certain prayers. In recent years, some women have begun wearing them too. 179
Talmud (Tall-mood): Central text of rabbinic Judaism, over 6,000 pages in length, containing teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis on a wide variety of topics.
Tikkun olam (Tee-koon oh-lahm): Literally, repairing the world. Refers to shared sense of ethical responsibility to build a model society in which everyone is treated fairly and everyone’s needs are met.
Torah (Toe-rah or toe-rah): Foundational text of Judaism; occasionally referred to in English as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses.
Tzedakah (Tseh-duh-kuh or ts-dah-kah): Literally means justice or righteousness, but most commonly used to refer to charity. More generally, the religious obligation to conduct oneself according to norms of justice and propriety.
Yahrzeit (Yar-tzite): Anniversary of the death of a close relative (parent, sibling, spouse, or child). Literally means “time of year.” Often marked by lighting a special candle that burns all day and recitation of Kaddish in memory of the deceased.
Yeshiva (Yeh-shee-vah): An intensive academy of Jewish learning, typically deeply religious in orientation, that focuses primarily on traditional religious texts such as the Torah and Talmud. Plural form is yeshivot (yeh-shee-vote).
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Branches of Judaism
There is one section of the survey where respondents will be asked to identify themselves or members of their household with a “branch” of Judaism. Branches are denominational movements; membership in one movement or another typically suggests a certain level of religiosity, though there is also wide variation within movements. The main movements are referred to as:
- Orthodox - Conservative - Reconstructionist - Reform
Of these, adherents to Orthodox Judaism tend to be most religiously conservative, while Reconstructionist and Reform Jews tend to be more progressive. (Note that Conservative Judaism should not be confused with political conservatism; many Conservative Jews are politically liberal.)
In addition to these movements, there are several other common responses given by respondents on Jewish surveys when asked about affiliation with a branch of Judaism:
- Humanistic: a nontheistic movement that defines Judaism in terms of culture and history - Renewal: difficult to describe, but has origins in countercultural movements late 1960s and 1970s - Secular/culturally Jewish: These respondents may prefer to identify as secular or cultural Jews rather than identifying with one of the main movements, which have more religious connotations. - Just Jewish: Many respondents prefer not to identify with any given denomination or movement, saying instead that they are “just Jewish.”
Respondents may decide that none of these options fit them and provide a different response. For these respondents, type their response in the text box next to “Other.” Common “other” entries for this question include post-denominational, traditional, modern Orthodox, Chabad, and Conservadox (i.e., a combination of Conservative and Orthodox). 181
General Jewish Communal Phrases and Organizations
AIPAC (Ay-pack): The American Israel Public Affairs Committee. A lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the US government.
Antisemitism: Prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews, individually or as a group, based on their Jewish national, ethnic, religious, or racial identity.
BDS (B-D-S): “Boycott, Divest, Sanction” – a movement dedicated toward applying economic pressure against the State of Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and improve conditions for Palestinians. Prominent only in last several years. Often perceived as antisemitic.
Birthright Israel: A program that provides a free ten-day educational tour of Israel for qualified, self-identified Jewish young adults between the ages of 18 and 26. Largest Jewish educational program in the world; over 4000,000 participants since 1999. Sometimes referred to by its Hebrew name, Taglit (tahg-leet).
B’nai B’rith (Beh-nay Brith): Literally “Children of the Covenant,” the oldest Jewish service organization in the world. Core commitments are security and continuity of the Jewish people and the State of Israel and combating antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. Sponsors a youth group called B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO).
Day school: Similar to Catholic school, a full-day program attended by Jewish children instead of public school in which students learn both secular subjects (e.g., English, math, science, social studies, etc.) and Jewish subjects (e.g., Hebrew, Jewish history, theology, etc.). There is no Jewish day school in Greater Naples, but some families may send their children to board at yeshivot in other places.
Hadassah (Huh-dah-suh): The Women’s Zionist Organization of America. Volunteer organization that promotes ties to Israel. Best known as a leading supporter of medical research.
Hillel (Hil-lel): Shorthand for Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Largest Jewish college campus-based organization in the world, serving over 550 colleges and universities throughout the world but primarily in North America.
Hebrew school: Supplementary Jewish educational program attended by children between one and four times a week, generally after school or on weekends, in order to teach them about Jewish religious life, culture, and history. Sometimes referred to as “supplementary school,” “Sunday school,” or “religious school.”
JCRC: Jewish Community Relations Council. An organization with local branches in most large Jewish communities, sometimes independent and sometimes affiliated with the local Jewish Federation, that promotes and enhances the relationship between the organized Jewish community and the broader community and advocates for issues of Jewish communal interest. In Pittsburgh, the Community Relations Council is a division of the Jewish Federation. In the DC 182
area, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington is an independent organization.
J Street: An advocacy group that describes itself as left-wing, pro-Israel, and in favour of a peaceful settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its collegiate arm is known as J Street U.
Jewish National Fund: JNF. A charitable Zionist organization that primarily manages significant land holdings and large infrastructure projects in Israel.
Jewish War Veterans: An organization of Jewish veterans who served in the US armed forces during times of war.
Keshet: A national organization that works for full LGBTQ equality and inclusion in Jewish life.
Moishe House: A network of houses in cities throughout the world, including Pittsburgh and the DC area, that serve as social and communal hubs for Jewish young adults.
ORT (pronounced as a word, rhymes with “sort”): A global Jewish charity that primarily funds educational programs, vocational training, and social development for Jews and non-Jews around the world.
PJ Library: Organization that mails Jewish children’s books and music each month to families across the country.
Three pillars of Judaism: A reference, generally from more religious Jews, to a section of the Talmud that says the world rests on three things: Torah study, ritual observance, and acts of kindness.
Zionism: National political movement of the Jewish people in support of a Jewish national homeland in the Land of Israel.
Zionist Organization of America: ZOA. A prominent American pro-Israel advocacy group and primary representative of American Jews to the World Zionist Organization.
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Pittsburgh Jewish Community Organizations Cheat Sheet
Agency for Jewish Learning: Sometimes referred to as the AJL (A-J-L). Discontinued in 2015. Was a community-based organization that provided opportunities to engage in Jewish learning. Its adult-learning programs were absorbed by the Jewish Federation and its teen-learning programs were absorbed by the Jewish Community Center.
AgeWell Pittsburgh: A program that links older adults and their families, friends, and caregivers to resources for aging-related issues.
Community Day School: One of the local Jewish day schools in the Pittsburgh area, serving early childhood and pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. Not affiliated with any denomination.
Hebrew Free Loan Association of Pittsburgh: Organization sponsored by the Jewish community that offers interest-free loans to residents of the Pittsburgh area, regardless of their religious identity, who may not qualify for assistance through other institutions.
Hillel Academy: One of the local Jewish day schools in the Pittsburgh area, serving early childhood and pre-kindergarten through high school. Affiliated with the Orthodox movement.
Hillel Jewish University Center: Also known as the Hillel JUC (J-U-C) and as The Edward and Rose Berman Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh. Serves as the campus Hillel for the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Duquesne University, as well as a few smaller colleges and universities in the Pittsburgh area.
Jewish Assistance Fund: Formerly the Jewish Family Assistance Fund. An organization in Pittsburgh that provides immediate financial assistance to individuals and families in need of food, clothing, shelter, and medicine.
Jewish Association on Aging: An organization in Pittsburgh that helps facilitate social, residential, rehabilitation, medical, and nutritional services for the elderly and their families.
Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh: Typically referred to as the JCC (J-C-C).
Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Pittsburgh: Also known as JF&CS (J-F and C-S). A private, non-profit social service organization serving members of both the Jewish community and the wider community in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh: Also known as the Federation. The central organizational body in the Jewish community. They manage the funding of many of the Jewish organizations in the area and are the funder of the Pittsburgh study.
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Jewish Healthcare Foundation: A charitable foundation in Pittsburgh that develops and manages programs, research, training, and grantmaking to improve medical care for patients throughout the Pittsburgh area regardless of their religious affiliation.
Jewish Residential Services: Sometimes referred to as JRS (J-R-S). A service providing support to individuals with psychiatric or intellectual disabilities, helping them to live, learn, work, and socialize as valued members of the community.
Kollel (co-lell) Jewish Learning Center: Sometimes referred to as the Pittsburgh Kollel or Kollel Beis Yitzchok (base yitz-khock). A center for the advanced study of Jewish religious texts, usually by Orthodox men.
Riverview Towers: An apartment complex in Pittsburgh that provides affordable quality housing and related services to the elderly. Many, if not most, of the residents are Jewish, but services are provided regardless of religious identity.
The Jewish Chronicle: The Jewish newspaper of the Pittsburgh area.
Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh: A Jewish day school run by the Chabad movement, serving children from early childhood through high school.
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List of Pittsburgh Area Jewish Congregations
Please note that this may not be an exhaustive list but rather the list of congregations we expect respondents are most likely to identify as congregations of which they are members in the Greater Pittsburgh area. Each congregation is identified by the denomination with which it is affiliated, but each is also open to individuals and households of other denominations. Several of the congregation names are in Hebrew; where necessary, some pronunciation help is provided in parentheses.
Adat Shalom Congregation (ah-dot shah-lome): Independent synagogue in Cheswick, PA.
Ahavath Achim Congregation (ah-hah-vaht ah-kheem): Also known as the Carnegie Shul. Independent synagogue in Carnegie, PA.
Bnai Emunoh Chabad (buh-nay eh-moo-nuh): Chabad synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Bet Tikvah (bet tick-vuh): Independent, LGBTQ-friendly minyan in Pittsburgh.
Beth El Congregation: Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob Congregation (bet ha-mid-rahsh ha-gah-dole): Orthodox synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Beth Israel Center: Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Beth Israel Congregation: Conservative synagogue in Washington, PA. Only synagogue in Washington County.
Beth Samuel Jewish Center: Independent synagogue in Ambridge, PA.
Chabad Fox Chapel: Chabad synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Chabad of Monroeville: Chabad synagogue in Monroeville, PA.
Chabad of Pittsburgh: Chabad synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Chabad of Shadyside: Chabad synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Chabad of the South Hills: Chabad synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Congregation B’nai Abraham (buh-nay): Independent synagogue in Butler, PA.
Congregation Beth Shalom: Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Congregation Emanu-El Israel (eh-mah-noo el): Reform synagogue in Greensburgh, PA. 186
Congregation Kether Torah (keh-tehr): Orthodox congregation in Pittsburgh.
Congregation Poale Tzedek (po-ah-lay tzeh-deck): Orthodox synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Dor Chadash Congregation (dohr kha-dahsh): Reconstructionist synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Gemilas Chesed Synagogue (geh-me-lahs kheh-sed): Orthodox synagogue in White Oak, PA.
The Lubavitch Center: Chabad synagogue in Pittsburgh.
New Light Congregation / Ohr Chadash (or kha-dahsh): Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Parkway Jewish Center: Sometimes referred to as PJC. Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Rodef Shalom Congregation (row-def shah-lome): Reform synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Shaare Torah Congregation (shah-ah-ray): Orthodox synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Temple Bnai Israel: Reform synagogue in White Oak, PA.
Temple David: Reform synagogue in Monroeville, PA.
Temple Emanuel of South Hills: Reform synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Temple Ohav Shalom (oh-hahv shah-lome): Reform synagogue in Allison Park, PA.
Temple Sinai: Reform synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha Congregation (ohr luh-seem-khah): Independent synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Young Israel of Pittsburgh: Orthodox synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Young Peoples Synagogue: Independent chavurah in Pittsburgh.