Religious tradition

reltrad

Source

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

Details

Question RELTRAD is constructed from variables RELIG, DENOM, OTHER, and ATTEND. The missing values coded as ".z: Variable-specific reserve code" represent OTHER denominations that are not originally covered by the Steensland et al. (2000) article (i.e., OTHER values larger than 148). Please see Appendix F in the codebook for more information.

Values

• [1] evangelical protestant

• [2] mainline protestant

• [3] black protestant

• [4] catholic

• [5] jewish

• [6] other faith

• [7] nonaffiliated

• [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 reltrad.

Counts by year:

year	evangelical protestant	mainline protestant	black protestant	catholic	jewish	other faith	nonaffiliated	iap	no answer	don't know	see codebook	skipped on web	Total
1972	291	467	213	413	54	60	83	25	7	-	-	-	1613
1973	314	427	136	388	42	56	96	34	6	5	-	-	1504
1974	331	431	133	376	44	31	101	27	2	8	-	-	1484
1975	319	461	126	363	23	41	113	38	3	3	-	-	1490
1976	345	421	103	390	27	49	114	48	2	-	-	-	1499
1977	349	444	138	373	35	48	93	43	7	-	-	-	1530
1978	364	423	131	384	29	51	119	26	5	-	-	-	1532
1980	357	399	105	362	32	72	105	32	4	-	-	-	1468
1982	358	450	366	399	38	56	132	48	13	-	-	-	1860
1983	357	412	121	439	43	83	117	21	6	-	-	-	1599
1984	394	322	123	375	27	74	107	36	14	1	-	-	1473
1985	434	334	110	408	32	71	109	29	7	-	-	-	1534
1986	401	301	130	380	38	85	98	32	4	1	-	-	1470
1987	433	341	379	376	21	103	121	32	13	-	-	-	1819
1988	404	289	125	384	30	91	118	32	7	1	-	-	1481
1989	409	334	116	386	23	82	120	59	8	-	-	-	1537
1990	348	322	109	327	27	79	109	41	8	1	1	-	1372
1991	427	310	143	386	32	83	102	30	4	-	-	-	1517
1993	478	321	121	351	33	87	146	58	10	1	-	-	1606
1994	787	589	237	759	59	200	274	64	21	1	1	-	2992
1996	732	549	261	685	68	199	339	55	14	1	1	-	2904
1998	710	483	230	705	50	128	396	75	48	6	1	-	2832
2000	673	470	262	679	63	153	398	97	18	2	2	-	2817
2002	644	463	236	673	48	159	379	113	22	26	2	-	2765
2004	745	410	208	656	55	179	403	125	18	5	8	-	2812
2006	1088	627	366	1115	78	229	739	195	33	18	22	-	4510
2008	480	283	153	470	39	128	332	104	11	18	5	-	2023
2010	484	275	166	482	37	103	363	103	16	9	6	-	2044
2012	501	250	136	444	28	109	387	100	4	9	6	-	1974
2014	582	315	170	606	40	153	522	120	15	10	5	-	2538
2016	679	303	208	649	51	156	620	162	22	12	5	-	2867
2018	534	277	162	493	39	132	542	120	20	20	9	-	2348
2021	715	470	169	824	76	270	1121	279	46	20	3	39	4032
2022	609	354	196	744	61	252	977	284	32	20	6	9	3544
2024	622	308	212	649	46	276	876	270	6	26	6	12	3309
Total	17698	13635	6300	17893	1468	4128	10771	2957	476	224	89	60	75699

See also

Other Religion: conorelgsp