Afterlife contrast: spiritual or sensual

mindbody

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] spiritual
[7] sensual life
[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 mindbody.

Counts by year:

year	iap	spiritual	2	3	4	5	6	sensual life	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1986	246	478	136	126	216	42	37	143	19	27	-	1470
1987	369	554	132	147	221	86	58	179	22	51	-	1819
1988	282	432	135	115	222	57	53	131	15	39	-	1481
1989	749	247	82	62	159	48	42	99	15	34	-	1537
Total	1646	1711	485	450	818	233	190	552	71	151	0	6307