god
General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 369. Please look at this card and tell me which statement comes closest to expresing what you believe about God: 1. I don't believe in God. 2. I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out. 3. I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind. 4. I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others. 5. While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God. 6. I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it.
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | believe sometimes | believe with doubts | don't believe | don't know, no way to find out | higher power | no answer | no doubts | don't know | skipped on web | 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 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | 1534 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 1470 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | - | 65 | 279 | 22 | 56 | 117 | 3 | 939 | - | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 1537 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 1372 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 158 | 69 | 241 | 31 | 60 | 92 | 31 | 834 | 1 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 49 | 47 | 224 | 44 | 63 | 127 | 37 | 992 | 23 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1606 | 51 | 214 | 33 | 37 | 131 | 34 | 860 | 26 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 2904 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 1548 | 58 | 181 | 40 | 60 | 121 | 48 | 775 | 1 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 1541 | 41 | 192 | 33 | 49 | 83 | 66 | 766 | 46 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 2765 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 2812 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 1518 | 128 | 473 | 66 | 129 | 294 | 13 | 1876 | 13 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | - | 76 | 330 | 60 | 95 | 204 | 9 | 1240 | 9 | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | - | 93 | 344 | 66 | 123 | 216 | 7 | 1181 | 14 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | - | 81 | 307 | 65 | 107 | 228 | 10 | 1168 | 8 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | - | 91 | 416 | 87 | 143 | 316 | 11 | 1468 | 6 | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | - | 100 | 461 | 126 | 188 | 357 | 19 | 1607 | 9 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | - | 88 | 410 | 109 | 150 | 298 | 14 | 1262 | 17 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | 1389 | 124 | 427 | 173 | 237 | 341 | 1 | 1313 | 2 | 25 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 1176 | 125 | 382 | 158 | 176 | 336 | 15 | 1159 | 6 | 11 | 3544 |
| Total | 42250 | 1237 | 4881 | 1113 | 1673 | 3261 | 318 | 17440 | 181 | 36 | 72390 |
1 don't believe
2 don't know, no way to find out
3 higher power
4 believe sometimes
5 believe with doubts
6 no doubts
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