Religion helps people to gain comfort in times of trouble and sorrow
Source:R/gss_vars_517.R
comfort.Rdcomfort
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
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 | not available in this year | 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 | 0 | 4371 |