What was father's religious preference

parelig

Source

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

Details

Question What was your father”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 parelig.

Counts by year:

year	iap	protestant	catholic	jewish	none	other	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1988	202	703	360	28	151	30	1	6	-	1481
2008	1969	5	2	40	5	-	2	-	-	2023
2012	1931	5	3	26	5	2	2	-	-	1974
Total	4102	713	365	94	161	32	5	6	0	5478