Specific denomination, spouse

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Source

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

Details

Question 116. What is your (SPOUSE)'s religious 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	iap	baptist, don't know which	episcopal church	lutheran, don't know which	methodist, don't know which	no answer	no denomination or non-denominational church	other, specify	presbyterian, don't know which	don't know	african methodist episcopal church	american baptist association	american baptist churches in the u.s.a.	american lutheran church	lutheran church - missouri synod	lutheran church in america	national baptist convention of america	national baptist convention u.s.a., inc.	other baptist churches	other lutheran churches	other methodist churches	other presbyterian churches	presbyterian church in the u.s.	southern baptist convention	united methodist church	united presbyterian church in the u.s.a.	wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod	african methodist episcopal zion church	evangelical lutheran	presbyterian, merged	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	796	207	33	79	165	1	32	142	49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	779	219	27	94	148	4	31	120	62	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	814	214	28	103	108	1	45	117	59	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	864	190	29	82	123	4	33	125	47	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	888	206	20	83	124	3	37	117	52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	914	190	20	81	110	4	41	126	45	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	897	177	24	51	105	4	25	125	53	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1193	236	25	78	113	8	32	134	41	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	993	168	22	89	89	6	32	149	51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	926	37	15	23	9	11	35	141	3	-	1	11	10	18	17	6	1	4	29	3	7	3	15	55	71	21	1	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	970	38	24	15	11	5	30	124	12	-	5	15	1	27	21	2	2	2	35	5	5	5	12	80	73	12	2	1	-	-	-	1534
1986	953	35	23	7	14	4	35	116	12	1	3	7	5	19	25	5	5	1	32	6	4	3	10	68	62	12	1	2	-	-	-	1470
1987	1185	59	14	11	23	11	31	149	14	-	6	12	9	21	10	10	12	4	19	1	5	4	7	110	70	18	-	4	-	-	-	1819
1988	966	29	16	15	3	-	35	129	10	-	2	10	6	7	10	9	2	2	28	4	6	3	8	94	67	14	3	-	3	-	-	1481
1989	1013	49	21	7	7	10	52	107	3	-	2	7	4	17	18	6	6	1	17	3	2	5	11	76	68	9	2	2	8	4	-	1537
1990	925	26	16	11	2	5	43	120	8	1	3	6	-	22	9	2	2	1	8	4	1	2	7	63	44	11	5	2	11	12	-	1372
1991	1016	43	19	10	8	4	27	137	7	-	1	22	3	14	7	6	2	2	13	1	2	4	9	65	64	16	-	1	9	5	-	1517
1993	1061	49	18	9	16	9	46	123	5	1	4	12	6	11	24	7	2	2	14	4	2	5	12	70	70	6	2	3	10	3	-	1606
1994	2506	38	22	9	17	23	34	87	2	3	5	14	2	17	12	6	1	3	16	3	5	4	6	68	55	15	2	-	8	9	-	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	2832	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2832
2000	2817	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2817
2002	2765	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	2431	44	8	16	10	2	68	80	7	4	1	9	2	3	8	1	2	2	3	-	1	2	5	57	34	5	3	-	4	-	-	2812
2006	3765	76	23	19	17	2	95	195	24	11	1	10	7	4	17	5	1	5	18	-	1	1	3	110	69	8	8	2	7	6	-	4510
2008	1461	63	27	17	12	10	95	140	21	3	2	10	3	4	10	2	4	2	2	-	1	-	4	67	48	4	5	-	6	-	-	2023
2010	1573	63	26	17	14	1	72	99	12	7	-	4	3	3	5	1	3	1	11	-	-	2	2	66	33	5	4	-	9	8	-	2044
2012	1476	42	15	13	10	2	104	125	13	7	1	12	4	5	7	1	-	-	8	3	2	-	2	61	41	2	5	-	7	6	-	1974
2014	1936	45	17	18	14	12	152	115	14	7	6	11	2	4	15	2	5	-	8	3	1	3	3	65	58	5	1	-	13	3	-	2538
2016	2279	50	12	17	11	7	130	137	10	12	4	11	6	2	16	6	4	2	12	3	1	4	-	72	39	1	5	1	9	4	-	2867
2018	1853	55	11	10	15	4	114	112	11	11	-	7	4	3	7	2	1	1	11	-	2	5	3	54	35	2	5	1	5	4	-	2348
2021	3181	99	27	39	20	3	250	123	30	15	3	12	8	2	20	4	4	5	6	6	-	5	5	56	71	3	5	1	16	10	3	4032
2022	2904	69	19	18	12	22	193	97	13	-	1	14	7	4	15	3	2	2	12	-	3	5	5	59	43	5	1	-	10	6	-	3544
Total	55449	2816	601	1041	1330	182	1949	3611	690	94	51	216	92	207	273	86	61	42	302	49	51	65	129	1416	1115	174	60	20	135	80	3	72390

Values

• 10 american baptist association

• 11 american baptist churches in the u.s.a.

• 12 national baptist convention of america

• 13 national baptist convention u.s.a., inc.

• 14 southern baptist convention

• 15 other baptist churches

• 18 baptist, don't know which

• 20 african methodist episcopal church

• 21 african methodist episcopal zion church

• 22 united methodist church

• 23 other methodist churches

• 28 methodist, don't know which

• 30 american lutheran church

• 31 lutheran church in america

• 32 lutheran church - missouri synod

• 33 wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod

• 34 other lutheran churches

• 35 evangelical lutheran

• 38 lutheran, don't know which

• 40 presbyterian church in the u.s.

• 41 united presbyterian church in the u.s.a.

• 42 other presbyterian churches

• 43 presbyterian, merged

• 48 presbyterian, don't know which

• 50 episcopal church

• 60 other, specify

• 70 no denomination or non-denominational church

• 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