Religion in which raised

relig16

Source

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

Details

Question In what religion were you raised?

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, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024
Full	1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for relig16.

Counts by year:

year	iap	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
1973	-	981	419	43	36	21	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	-	984	402	49	39	8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	1032	378	25	45	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	971	428	33	47	18	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	-	1042	390	37	39	15	6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	-	1017	418	31	48	11	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	983	389	32	45	17	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	-	1295	441	44	48	23	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	996	481	50	52	11	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	955	399	30	43	25	21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	978	444	32	63	12	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	953	411	33	45	26	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	1290	407	22	48	23	29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	-	952	414	31	53	31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	-	966	444	28	61	34	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	-	877	361	27	72	27	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	-	966	434	34	58	22	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	-	1039	422	35	71	29	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	-	1846	882	55	127	74	7	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	-	1734	837	68	169	91	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	-	1637	857	53	175	13	27	3	6	5	3	15	10	21	5	2	-	2832
2000	-	1610	844	64	192	18	14	-	15	7	2	7	13	21	6	4	-	2817
2002	-	1553	821	56	195	8	15	6	13	5	1	14	26	38	1	13	-	2765
2004	-	1568	829	60	226	8	6	5	17	9	2	19	15	40	1	7	-	2812
2006	1518	1620	960	56	249	5	1	-	21	16	4	23	9	26	2	-	-	4510
2008	-	1095	635	39	168	4	10	8	5	12	-	9	10	27	-	1	-	2023
2010	-	1066	647	33	150	11	8	3	15	3	-	12	10	82	-	4	-	2044
2012	-	1015	653	28	162	9	4	8	3	15	-	13	10	50	4	-	-	1974
2014	-	1273	872	41	206	11	12	4	10	17	-	12	11	68	1	-	-	2538
2016	-	1511	923	55	248	23	10	10	12	13	-	20	10	30	2	-	-	2867
2018	-	1237	732	42	241	10	7	9	11	12	-	17	14	14	2	-	-	2348
2021	40	1860	1290	87	499	59	3	29	32	30	2	1	-	60	2	6	32	4032
2022	2	1685	1159	55	404	27	18	20	17	30	2	30	22	52	-	1	20	3544
2024	-	1576	1003	47	434	7	12	17	18	33	6	38	37	54	1	7	19	3309
Total	1560	42163	21426	1455	4758	741	282	124	195	207	22	230	197	583	27	45	71	74086

See also

Other Core: denom16, fund16, jew16, jew16aj, oth16, othjew16, spden, spother, sprel

Other Religion: denom16, fund16, jew16, oth16, othjew16, spden, spother, sprel