Religion helps people to gain comfort in times of trouble and sorrow

comfort

Source

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

Details

Question Do you agree or disagree that… C. ...that practicing a religion helps people to gain comfort in times of trouble and sorrow?

Values

• [1] strongly agree

• [2] agree

• [3] neither agree nor disagree

• [4] disagree

• [5] strongly disagree

• [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

ballots	years
A/B	2018
B/C	2008

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	strongly agree	agree	neither agree nor disagree	disagree	strongly disagree	don't know	no answer	Total
2008	658	626	663	51	5	6	9	5	2023
2018	1173	484	602	55	17	4	2	11	2348
Total	1831	1110	1265	106	22	10	11	16	4371

See also

Other ISSP Religion: makefrnd, paxhappy, relobjct, relsprt, rightpeo, vistholy

Other Religion: makefrnd, paxhappy, relobjct, relsprt, rightpeo, vistholy