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General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org
Question 119a. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that no state or local government may require the reading of the Lor's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. What are your views on this - do you approve or disapprove of the court ruling?
For further details see the official GSS documentation.
Counts by year:
| year | iap | approve | disapprove | don't know | no answer | not available in this year | Total |
| 1972 | 1613 | - | - | - | - | - | 1613 |
| 1973 | 1504 | - | - | - | - | - | 1504 |
| 1974 | 731 | 231 | 496 | 23 | 3 | - | 1484 |
| 1975 | - | 526 | 918 | 43 | 3 | - | 1490 |
| 1976 | 1499 | - | - | - | - | - | 1499 |
| 1977 | - | 511 | 981 | 35 | 3 | - | 1530 |
| 1978 | 1532 | - | - | - | - | - | 1532 |
| 1980 | 1468 | - | - | - | - | - | 1468 |
| 1982 | - | 635 | 1161 | 60 | 4 | - | 1860 |
| 1983 | - | 631 | 904 | 60 | 4 | - | 1599 |
| 1984 | 1473 | - | - | - | - | - | 1473 |
| 1985 | - | 659 | 824 | 47 | 4 | - | 1534 |
| 1986 | 740 | 270 | 442 | 11 | 7 | - | 1470 |
| 1987 | 1819 | - | - | - | - | - | 1819 |
| 1988 | 493 | 368 | 581 | 37 | 2 | - | 1481 |
| 1989 | 531 | 411 | 562 | 32 | 1 | - | 1537 |
| 1990 | 444 | 367 | 517 | 42 | 2 | - | 1372 |
| 1991 | 493 | 392 | 594 | 35 | 3 | - | 1517 |
| 1993 | 526 | 423 | 611 | 43 | 3 | - | 1606 |
| 1994 | 1015 | 737 | 1150 | 85 | 5 | - | 2992 |
| 1996 | 944 | 780 | 1099 | 79 | 2 | - | 2904 |
| 1998 | 961 | 794 | 988 | 85 | 4 | - | 2832 |
| 2000 | 940 | 688 | 1087 | 94 | 8 | - | 2817 |
| 2002 | 1857 | 341 | 518 | 49 | - | - | 2765 |
| 2004 | 1906 | 319 | 558 | 28 | 1 | - | 2812 |
| 2006 | 2518 | 796 | 1094 | 101 | 1 | - | 4510 |
| 2008 | 694 | 517 | 758 | 54 | - | - | 2023 |
| 2010 | 614 | 598 | 767 | 64 | 1 | - | 2044 |
| 2012 | 672 | 510 | 743 | 46 | 3 | - | 1974 |
| 2014 | 863 | 655 | 949 | 71 | - | - | 2538 |
| 2016 | 979 | 753 | 1057 | 75 | 3 | - | 2867 |
| 2018 | 789 | 689 | 782 | 86 | 2 | - | 2348 |
| 2021 | - | - | - | - | - | 4032 | 4032 |
| 2022 | 2324 | 589 | 554 | 73 | 4 | - | 3544 |
| Total | 31942 | 14190 | 20695 | 1458 | 73 | 4032 | 72390 |
1 approve
2 disapprove
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