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

• [1] baptist

• [2] methodist

• [3] lutheran

• [4] presbyterian

• [5] episcopal

• [6] other denomination

• [7] 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

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

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	baptist	methodist	lutheran	presbyterian	episcopal	other denomination	no denomination or non-denominational church	iap	no answer	don't know	skipped on web	Total
1972	324	232	139	80	33	185	36	577	7	-	-	1613
1973	312	198	124	57	41	163	43	564	2	-	-	1504
1974	322	190	113	74	38	174	42	529	2	-	-	1484
1975	309	175	139	76	44	182	49	513	3	-	-	1490
1976	303	162	104	78	49	195	60	546	2	-	-	1499
1977	324	193	136	66	37	190	58	519	7	-	-	1530
1978	318	190	115	62	39	208	46	549	5	-	-	1532
1980	307	170	92	79	41	195	52	529	3	-	-	1468
1982	478	210	126	75	52	244	72	590	13	-	-	1860
1983	303	147	143	64	37	229	45	625	6	-	-	1599
1984	295	164	93	75	28	220	57	529	12	-	-	1473
1985	324	169	99	57	42	215	48	574	6	-	-	1534
1986	295	145	115	50	38	224	53	546	4	-	-	1470
1987	517	172	86	80	36	299	61	558	10	-	-	1819
1988	314	139	74	63	31	216	65	574	4	1	-	1481
1989	305	148	112	70	43	204	86	563	6	-	-	1537
1990	231	129	107	69	34	211	78	505	7	1	-	1372
1991	305	137	104	74	32	260	53	549	3	-	-	1517
1993	312	170	117	71	34	235	84	572	11	-	-	1606
1994	616	280	199	142	66	338	125	1207	18	1	-	2992
1996	628	244	198	106	79	304	99	1236	10	-	-	2904
1998	568	249	171	87	60	266	139	1245	46	1	-	2832
2000	557	252	145	92	52	287	161	1254	16	1	-	2817
2002	482	206	149	79	58	338	203	1225	17	8	-	2765
2004	498	191	127	67	59	348	263	1239	16	4	-	2812
2006	782	295	181	124	78	581	370	2054	28	17	-	4510
2008	329	131	61	56	43	289	191	907	9	7	-	2023
2010	355	114	82	60	36	209	198	969	13	8	-	2044
2012	317	116	82	33	32	230	222	935	3	4	-	1974
2014	368	143	92	61	39	260	293	1264	15	3	-	2538
2016	441	129	111	53	40	301	336	1432	16	8	-	2867
2018	336	135	85	56	26	248	266	1163	20	13	-	2348
2021	409	191	161	103	55	219	551	2243	46	15	39	4032
2022	409	169	108	59	44	206	498	2010	32	-	9	3544
2024	429	125	120	65	42	212	406	1891	6	1	12	3309
Total	13722	6210	4210	2563	1538	8685	5409	32785	424	93	60	75699

See also

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

Other Religion: other, othjew, relig