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