R's religious preference

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Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 104. What is your religous preference? Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	catholic	jewish	no answer	none	other	protestant	don't know	buddhism	christian	hinduism	inter-nondenominational	muslim/islam	native american	orthodox-christian	other eastern religions	skipped on web	Total
1972	413	54	5	83	27	1031	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	388	42	4	96	34	940	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	376	44	1	101	8	954	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	363	23	2	113	14	975	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	390	27	2	114	15	951	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	373	35	7	93	18	1004	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	384	29	4	119	17	979	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	362	32	3	105	30	936	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	399	38	12	132	21	1258	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	439	43	4	117	26	970	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	375	27	12	107	20	932	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	408	32	5	109	25	955	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	379	38	3	98	31	921	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	376	21	7	121	40	1254	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	384	30	1	118	42	906	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	386	23	4	120	34	970	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	327	27	4	109	42	862	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	386	32	2	102	29	966	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	351	33	8	146	42	1025	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	759	59	11	274	115	1774	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	685	68	4	339	143	1664	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	705	50	30	396	28	1524	5	9	33	5	19	13	3	10	2	-	2832
2000	679	63	3	398	42	1521	1	17	39	8	17	12	4	12	1	-	2817
2002	673	48	15	379	22	1460	4	21	65	6	30	13	4	23	2	-	2765
2004	656	55	12	403	37	1483	-	13	71	13	26	16	1	13	13	-	2812
2006	1114	78	26	739	39	2328	-	31	102	11	6	17	3	14	2	-	4510
2008	470	39	8	332	12	1040	1	15	68	7	4	13	1	10	3	-	2023
2010	482	37	12	363	20	973	1	18	90	4	20	11	2	8	3	-	2044
2012	444	28	2	387	25	916	5	6	120	9	2	13	6	6	5	-	1974
2014	606	40	14	522	21	1126	6	27	132	16	4	10	2	9	3	-	2538
2016	649	51	18	620	29	1380	3	22	41	13	7	19	4	7	4	-	2867
2018	493	39	16	542	32	1139	5	19	30	8	1	16	1	6	1	-	2348
2021	824	75	44	1121	55	1590	5	47	124	30	18	25	3	37	2	32	4032
2022	744	61	32	977	89	1418	20	27	85	28	5	23	2	21	3	9	3544
Total	17242	1421	337	9895	1224	40125	59	272	1000	158	159	201	36	176	44	41	72390

Values

• 1 protestant

• 2 catholic

• 3 jewish

• 4 none

• 5 other

• 6 buddhism

• 7 hinduism

• 8 other eastern religions

• 9 muslim/islam

• 10 orthodox-christian

• 11 christian

• 12 native american

• 13 inter-nondenominational

• 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