R's confidence in the existence of god

god

Source

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

Details

Question 369. Please look at this card and tell me which statement comes closest to expresing what you believe about God: 1. I don't believe in God. 2. I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out. 3. I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind. 4. I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others. 5. While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God. 6. I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	believe sometimes	believe with doubts	don't believe	don't know, no way to find out	higher power	no answer	no doubts	don't know	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	-	65	279	22	56	117	3	939	-	-	1481
1989	1537	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	1372	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	158	69	241	31	60	92	31	834	1	-	1517
1993	49	47	224	44	63	127	37	992	23	-	1606
1994	1606	51	214	33	37	131	34	860	26	-	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	1548	58	181	40	60	121	48	775	1	-	2832
2000	1541	41	192	33	49	83	66	766	46	-	2817
2002	2765	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	2812	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2812
2006	1518	128	473	66	129	294	13	1876	13	-	4510
2008	-	76	330	60	95	204	9	1240	9	-	2023
2010	-	93	344	66	123	216	7	1181	14	-	2044
2012	-	81	307	65	107	228	10	1168	8	-	1974
2014	-	91	416	87	143	316	11	1468	6	-	2538
2016	-	100	461	126	188	357	19	1607	9	-	2867
2018	-	88	410	109	150	298	14	1262	17	-	2348
2021	1389	124	427	173	237	341	1	1313	2	25	4032
2022	1176	125	382	158	176	336	15	1159	6	11	3544
2024	1116	114	320	122	170	305	7	1129	12	14	3309
Total	43366	1351	5201	1235	1843	3566	325	18569	193	50	75699

Values

• 1 don't believe

• 2 don't know, no way to find out

• 3 higher power

• 4 believe sometimes

• 5 believe with doubts

• 6 no doubts

• 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