Belief in life after death

postlife

Source

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

Details

Question 108. Do you believe there is a life after death?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	don't know	no	yes	no answer	not available in this year	skipped on web	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	-	137	316	1051	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	147	341	1000	2	-	-	1490
1976	-	126	299	1073	1	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	-	135	325	1069	3	-	-	1532
1980	-	144	247	1071	6	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	120	389	1086	4	-	-	1599
1984	-	111	278	1074	10	-	-	1473
1985	1534	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	104	246	1117	3	-	-	1470
1987	-	139	369	1304	7	-	-	1819
1988	-	109	282	1089	1	-	-	1481
1989	531	97	218	690	1	-	-	1537
1990	444	98	178	643	9	-	-	1372
1991	493	110	177	732	5	-	-	1517
1993	526	111	185	780	4	-	-	1606
1994	1015	206	327	1425	19	-	-	2992
1996	944	190	308	1429	33	-	-	2904
1998	463	281	379	1687	22	-	-	2832
2000	486	244	377	1687	23	-	-	2817
2002	1393	151	236	975	10	-	-	2765
2004	1472	166	213	958	3	-	-	2812
2006	1518	356	452	2177	7	-	-	4510
2008	-	231	332	1455	5	-	-	2023
2010	-	235	341	1462	6	-	-	2044
2012	-	200	340	1427	7	-	-	1974
2014	-	291	459	1783	5	-	-	2538
2016	-	271	499	2089	8	-	-	2867
2018	-	216	403	1720	9	-	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	4032	-	4032
2022	1704	256	295	1284	5	-	-	3544
2024	1823	196	220	1063	6	-	1	3309
Total	20833	5178	9031	36400	224	4032	1	75699

Values

• 1 yes

• 2 no

• 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