Bible prayer in public schools

prayer

Source

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

Details

Question 119a. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that no state or local government may require the reading of the Lor's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. What are your views on this - do you approve or disapprove of the court ruling?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	approve	disapprove	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	731	231	496	23	3	-	1484
1975	-	526	918	43	3	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	-	511	981	35	3	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	-	635	1161	60	4	-	1860
1983	-	631	904	60	4	-	1599
1984	1473	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	659	824	47	4	-	1534
1986	740	270	442	11	7	-	1470
1987	1819	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	493	368	581	37	2	-	1481
1989	531	411	562	32	1	-	1537
1990	444	367	517	42	2	-	1372
1991	493	392	594	35	3	-	1517
1993	526	423	611	43	3	-	1606
1994	1015	737	1150	85	5	-	2992
1996	944	780	1099	79	2	-	2904
1998	961	794	988	85	4	-	2832
2000	940	688	1087	94	8	-	2817
2002	1857	341	518	49	-	-	2765
2004	1906	319	558	28	1	-	2812
2006	2518	796	1094	101	1	-	4510
2008	694	517	758	54	-	-	2023
2010	614	598	767	64	1	-	2044
2012	672	510	743	46	3	-	1974
2014	863	655	949	71	-	-	2538
2016	979	753	1057	75	3	-	2867
2018	789	689	782	86	2	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	2324	589	554	73	4	-	3544
2024	2331	416	482	79	1	-	3309
Total	34273	14606	21177	1537	74	4032	75699

Values

• 1 approve

• 2 disapprove

• 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