What was mother's religious preference

marelig

Source

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

Details

Question What was your mother”s religious preference when you were growing up? Was it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion?

Values

[1] protestant
[2] catholic
[3] jewish
[4] none
[5] other
[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, 2008, 2012

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	protestant	catholic	jewish	none	other	no answer	don't know	not available in this year	Total
1988	48	910	400	32	50	36	5	-	-	1481
2008	1969	10	-	38	5	-	-	1	-	2023
2012	1931	6	5	28	3	1	-	-	-	1974
Total	3948	926	405	98	58	37	5	1	0	5478