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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 114. There are many different ways of picturing God. We'd like to know the kinds of images you are most likely to associate with God. Here is a card with sets of contrasting images. On a scale of 1-7 where would you place your image of God between the two contrasting images? d. 1. Friend 7. King
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | friend | king | no answer | don't know | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 1484 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | 1490 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | 1530 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | 1860 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | 1599 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 484 | 77 | 41 | 258 | 53 | 29 | 293 | 180 | 58 | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | - | 114 | 82 | 406 | 82 | 70 | 433 | 280 | 50 | 17 | 1534 |
| 1986 | - | 105 | 77 | 383 | 53 | 69 | 469 | 257 | 47 | 10 | 1470 |
| 1987 | - | 86 | 71 | 497 | 72 | 67 | 552 | 385 | 73 | 16 | 1819 |
| 1988 | - | 95 | 64 | 420 | 69 | 42 | 419 | 290 | 54 | 28 | 1481 |
| 1989 | 531 | 72 | 40 | 286 | 54 | 37 | 268 | 207 | 39 | 3 | 1537 |
| 1990 | 444 | 67 | 41 | 258 | 38 | 29 | 263 | 180 | 47 | 5 | 1372 |
| 1991 | 158 | 112 | 77 | 341 | 81 | 71 | 277 | 193 | 207 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 526 | 79 | 59 | 309 | 44 | 45 | 278 | 212 | 51 | 3 | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1015 | 110 | 81 | 585 | 94 | 76 | 525 | 415 | 69 | 22 | 2992 |
| 1996 | 1913 | 50 | 48 | 304 | 66 | 41 | 269 | 171 | 36 | 6 | 2904 |
| 1998 | 1387 | 75 | 70 | 430 | 87 | 79 | 322 | 317 | 50 | 15 | 2832 |
| 2000 | 2817 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2765 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 2812 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 4510 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 658 | 69 | 78 | 382 | 86 | 71 | 253 | 311 | 31 | 84 | 2023 |
| 2010 | 2044 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 1974 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 2538 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 2867 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 2348 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 4032 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 |
| 2022 | 3544 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3544 |
| Total | 54946 | 1111 | 829 | 4859 | 879 | 726 | 4621 | 3398 | 812 | 209 | 72390 |
1 friend
7 king
NA(d) don't know
NA(i) iap
NA(j) I don't have a job
NA(m) dk, na, iap
NA(n) no answer
NA(p) not imputable
NA(q) not imputable
NA(r) refused
NA(s) skipped on web
NA(u) uncodeable
NA(x) not available in this release
NA(y) not available in this year
NA(z) see codebook