R's religious preference

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Source

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

Details

Question What is your religious preference? Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion?

Values

• [1] protestant

• [2] catholic

• [3] jewish

• [4] none

• [5] other

• [6] buddhism

• [7] hinduism

• [8] other eastern religions

• [9] muslim/islam

• [10] orthodox-christian

• [11] christian

• [12] native american

• [13] inter-nondenominational

• [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, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
A/B/C/D	2006
Full	1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for relig.

Counts by year:

year	protestant	catholic	jewish	none	other	no answer	don't know	buddhism	hinduism	other eastern religions	muslim/islam	orthodox-christian	christian	native american	inter-nondenominational	skipped on web	Total
1972	1031	413	54	83	27	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	940	388	42	96	34	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	954	376	44	101	8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	975	363	23	113	14	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	951	390	27	114	15	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1004	373	35	93	18	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	979	384	29	119	17	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	936	362	32	105	30	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1258	399	38	132	21	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	970	439	43	117	26	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	932	375	27	107	20	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	955	408	32	109	25	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	921	379	38	98	31	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	1254	376	21	121	40	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	906	384	30	118	42	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	970	386	23	120	34	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	862	327	27	109	42	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	966	386	32	102	29	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	1025	351	33	146	42	8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	1774	759	59	274	115	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	1664	685	68	339	143	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	1524	705	50	396	28	30	5	9	5	2	13	10	33	3	19	-	2832
2000	1521	679	63	398	42	3	1	17	8	1	12	12	39	4	17	-	2817
2002	1460	673	48	379	22	15	4	21	6	2	13	23	65	4	30	-	2765
2004	1483	656	55	403	37	12	-	13	13	13	16	13	71	1	26	-	2812
2006	2328	1114	78	739	39	26	-	31	11	2	17	14	102	3	6	-	4510
2008	1040	470	39	332	12	8	1	15	7	3	13	10	68	1	4	-	2023
2010	973	482	37	363	20	12	1	18	4	3	11	8	90	2	20	-	2044
2012	916	444	28	387	25	2	5	6	9	5	13	6	120	6	2	-	1974
2014	1126	606	40	522	21	14	6	27	16	3	10	9	132	2	4	-	2538
2016	1380	649	51	620	29	18	3	22	13	4	19	7	41	4	7	-	2867
2018	1139	493	39	542	32	16	5	19	8	1	16	6	30	1	1	-	2348
2021	1589	824	76	1121	55	44	5	47	30	2	25	37	124	3	18	32	4032
2022	1418	744	61	977	89	32	20	27	28	3	23	21	85	2	5	9	3544
2024	1406	649	46	876	77	4	26	27	31	4	41	31	70	3	8	10	3309
Total	41530	17891	1468	10771	1301	341	85	299	189	48	242	207	1070	39	167	51	75699

See also

Other Core: denom, grass, grassy, lawfirm, lawimp, lawinfo, other, othjew, wirtap

Other Religion: denom, other, othjew