Afterlife contrast: better or lacking

likediff

Source

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

Details

Question A. People picture life after death in many different ways. We'd like to know how you think of life after death. Here is a card with sets of contrasting images. On a scale of 1-7 where would you place your image of life after death. Look at the first set of contrasting images. If you think that life after death is "A life like the one here on earth only better," you would place yourself at 1. If you think it is "A life without many things which make our present life enjoyable" you would place yourself at 7. If you think it is somewhere between these two you would place yourself at 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. Where would you place your images of life after death for . . .?

Values

[1] better than earth
[7] life lacking
[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/-	1989
A/B/C	1988
Full	1986, 1987

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	better than earth	2	3	4	5	6	life lacking	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1986	246	503	125	111	224	68	32	114	21	26	-	1470
1987	369	584	148	132	226	77	64	132	26	61	-	1819
1988	282	492	116	100	224	69	35	100	16	47	-	1481
1989	749	310	86	77	137	45	27	60	10	36	-	1537
Total	1646	1889	475	420	811	259	158	406	73	170	0	6307