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Describe your feelings about the bible

Source: R/gss_vars_511.R
bible1.Rd

bible1

Source

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

Details

Question Which of these statements comes closest to describing your feelings about the Bible?

Values

  • [1] word of god, take literally

  • [2] god-inspired, shouldn't take literally

  • [3] book of fables, by man

  • [4] this does not apply to me

  • [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(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

Question Years and Ballots

ballotsyears
A/B/C1991, 1998

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for bible1.

Counts by year:

yeariapword of god, take literallygod-inspired, shouldn't take literallybook of fables, by manthis does not apply to medon't knowno answernot available in this yearTotal
1991158430639188275025-1517
19981548358585207405638-2832
Total17067881224395671066304349

See also

Other ISSP Religion: devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, nihilism, predeter, theism

Other Religion: devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, nihilism, predeter, theism