Afterlife contrast: shadows or full

palefull

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] pale, shadowy
[7] complete fulfillment
[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 palefull.

Counts by year:

year	iap	pale, shadowy	2	3	4	5	6	complete fulfillment	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1986	246	42	15	39	170	110	137	674	13	24	-	1470
1987	369	41	14	26	184	163	231	714	22	55	-	1819
1988	282	37	21	32	210	143	168	536	15	37	-	1481
1989	749	21	13	19	142	113	98	334	17	31	-	1537
Total	1646	141	63	116	706	529	634	2258	67	147	0	6307