Specific denomination

denom

Source

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

Details

Question What is your religious preference? Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion? A. What specific denomination is that, if any? As of 2024, DENOM has been recoded to only account for seven broad denomination categories. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of DENOM. The original DENOM containing data 1972 to 2022 has been renamed DENOM_7222.

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(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

year	ballots	availability
1972	-/-/-/-	full
1973	-/-/-/-	full
1974	-/-/-/-	full
1975	-/-/-/-	full
1976	-/-/-/-	full
1977	-/-/-/-	full
1978	-/-/-/-	full
1980	-/-/-/-	full
1982	-/-/-/-	full
1983	-/-/-/-	full
1984	-/-/-/-	full
1985	-/-/-/-	full
1986	-/-/-/-	full
1987	-/-/-/-	full
1988	A/B/C/-	full
1989	A/B/C/-	full
1990	A/B/C/-	full
1991	A/B/C/-	full
1993	A/B/C/-	full
1994	A/B/C/-	full
1996	A/B/C/-	full
1998	A/B/C/-	full
2000	A/B/C/-	full
2002	A/B/C/-	full
2004	A/B/C/-	full
2006	A/B/C/D	full
2008	A/B/C/-	full
2010	A/B/C/-	full
2012	A/B/C/-	full
2014	A/B/C/-	full
2016	A/B/C/-	full
2018	A/B/C/-	full
2021	A/B/C/-	full
2022	A/B/C/-	full
2024	A/B/C/-	full

Link at the GSS

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

See also

Other Core: grass, grassy, lawfirm, lawimp, lawinfo, other, othjew, relig, wirtap