Specific denomination

denom

Source

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

Details

Question 104a. If Protestant: What specific denomination is that, if any?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	baptist, don't know which	episcopal church	iap	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	african methodist episcopal church	african methodist episcopal zion 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	don't know	evangelical lutheran	presbyterian, merged	skipped on web	Total
1972	324	33	577	139	232	7	36	185	80	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	312	41	564	124	198	2	43	163	57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	322	38	529	113	190	2	42	174	74	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	309	44	513	139	175	3	49	182	76	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	303	49	546	104	162	2	60	195	78	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	324	37	519	136	193	7	58	190	66	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	318	39	549	115	190	5	46	208	62	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	307	41	529	92	170	3	52	195	79	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	478	52	590	126	210	13	72	244	75	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	303	37	625	143	147	6	45	229	64	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	95	28	529	14	18	12	57	220	23	6	2	20	16	35	31	5	7	7	43	7	12	5	16	107	126	31	1	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	67	42	574	17	25	6	48	215	15	11	1	35	8	39	31	1	5	4	61	8	7	8	13	144	125	21	3	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	73	38	546	13	19	4	53	224	17	5	1	18	11	42	36	12	10	2	55	8	13	4	16	126	107	13	4	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	173	36	558	17	20	10	61	299	20	19	6	29	23	27	22	15	25	18	44	2	12	8	15	205	115	37	3	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	72	31	574	13	15	4	65	216	19	5	1	29	10	15	19	12	3	5	42	6	9	7	12	153	109	25	3	1	6	-	-	1481
1989	92	43	563	10	17	6	86	204	12	5	4	21	9	29	33	11	10	5	34	7	6	10	17	134	116	16	5	-	17	15	-	1537
1990	59	34	505	21	16	7	78	211	13	11	6	21	4	32	23	8	6	2	17	4	3	2	13	122	93	25	7	1	12	16	-	1372
1991	88	32	549	13	12	3	53	260	19	12	4	43	12	32	29	11	9	2	23	5	1	3	14	128	108	29	2	-	12	9	-	1517
1993	85	34	572	8	23	11	84	235	8	8	4	21	7	20	43	14	8	3	31	11	5	16	15	157	130	23	7	-	14	9	-	1606
1994	178	66	1207	22	32	18	125	338	16	8	4	44	16	48	60	9	9	9	76	20	21	19	36	284	215	51	12	1	28	20	-	2992
1996	181	79	1236	25	23	10	99	304	11	11	8	57	28	51	48	15	12	8	69	15	12	19	34	273	190	29	11	-	33	13	-	2904
1998	158	60	1245	12	30	46	139	266	7	16	5	43	16	34	47	15	9	15	83	23	6	10	30	244	192	23	15	1	25	17	-	2832
2000	132	52	1254	17	30	16	161	287	8	19	7	42	25	36	37	13	14	13	75	12	14	18	31	256	182	21	5	1	25	14	-	2817
2002	186	58	1225	52	34	17	203	338	42	11	2	34	18	29	34	15	10	4	22	2	1	3	16	208	158	15	11	8	6	3	-	2765
2004	204	59	1239	49	31	16	263	348	27	10	5	41	11	12	30	7	8	6	18	4	1	3	18	210	144	14	9	4	16	5	-	2812
2006	322	78	2054	44	49	28	370	581	60	11	10	45	25	34	45	13	18	10	38	3	6	10	16	324	219	21	20	17	22	17	-	4510
2008	150	43	907	20	27	9	191	289	31	8	1	20	12	11	12	3	9	1	5	1	2	3	6	132	93	15	8	7	6	1	-	2023
2010	184	36	969	35	30	13	198	209	29	3	-	13	5	4	13	7	6	2	12	3	3	5	4	133	78	12	6	8	14	10	-	2044
2012	129	32	935	21	21	3	222	230	17	7	3	18	18	10	16	8	2	1	23	2	2	2	5	126	83	3	8	4	17	6	-	1974
2014	151	39	1264	29	17	15	293	260	30	8	4	24	16	10	25	5	9	3	20	3	4	3	8	145	110	9	4	3	16	11	-	2538
2016	189	40	1432	25	21	16	336	301	25	6	4	33	26	10	33	11	7	5	25	6	4	6	3	156	94	9	6	8	20	10	-	2867
2018	147	26	1163	30	26	20	266	248	30	6	4	24	16	11	20	1	4	3	20	3	5	6	9	122	94	1	7	13	13	10	-	2348
2021	205	55	2242	56	26	46	551	220	54	15	2	21	24	22	34	5	5	6	26	8	-	8	17	122	148	5	6	15	30	19	39	4032
2022	175	44	2010	43	22	32	498	206	24	9	3	37	22	9	32	8	6	4	25	1	5	5	9	140	130	10	1	-	14	11	9	3544
Total	6795	1496	30893	1837	2451	418	5003	8474	1268	230	91	733	378	602	753	224	211	138	887	164	154	183	373	4151	3159	458	164	92	346	216	48	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