Specific denomination, spouse

spden_7322

Source

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

Details

Question What is your (SPOUSE'S) religious preference? Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion? A. What specific denomination is that, if any? As of 2024, SPDEN has been recoded to only account for seven broad denomination categories. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of SPDEN. The original SPDEN containing data 1973 to 2022 has been renamed SPDEN_7322.

Values

• [10] american baptist association

• [11] american baptist churches in the u.s.a.

• [12] national baptist convention of america

• [13] national baptist convention u.s.a., inc.

• [14] southern baptist convention

• [15] other baptist churches

• [18] baptist, don't know which

• [20] african methodist episcopal church

• [21] african methodist episcopal zion church

• [22] united methodist church

• [23] other methodist churches

• [28] methodist, don't know which

• [30] american lutheran church

• [31] lutheran church in america

• [32] lutheran church - missouri synod

• [33] wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod

• [34] other lutheran churches

• [35] evangelical lutheran

• [38] lutheran, don't know which

• [40] presbyterian church in the u.s.

• [41] united presbyterian church in the u.s.a.

• [42] other presbyterian churches

• [43] presbyterian, merged

• [48] presbyterian, don't know which

• [50] episcopal church

• [60] other, specify

• [70] no denomination or non-denominational church

• [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, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022
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 spden_7322.

Counts by year:

year	not available in this year	baptist, don't know which	methodist, don't know which	lutheran, don't know which	presbyterian, don't know which	episcopal church	other, specify	no denomination or non-denominational church	iap	no answer	don't know	american baptist association	american baptist churches in the u.s.a.	national baptist convention of america	national baptist convention u.s.a., inc.	southern baptist convention	other baptist churches	african methodist episcopal church	united methodist church	other methodist churches	american lutheran church	lutheran church in america	lutheran church - missouri synod	wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod	other lutheran churches	presbyterian church in the u.s.	united presbyterian church in the u.s.a.	other presbyterian churches	african methodist episcopal zion church	evangelical lutheran	presbyterian, merged	skipped on web	Total
1973	-	207	165	79	49	33	142	32	796	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	-	219	148	94	62	27	120	31	779	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	-	214	108	103	59	28	117	45	814	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	-	190	123	82	47	29	125	33	864	4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	-	206	124	83	52	20	117	37	888	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	-	190	110	81	45	20	126	41	914	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	-	177	105	51	53	24	125	25	897	4	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	-	236	113	78	41	25	134	32	1193	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	-	168	89	89	51	22	149	32	993	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	-	37	9	23	3	15	141	35	926	11	-	11	10	1	4	55	29	1	71	7	18	6	17	1	3	15	21	3	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	-	38	11	15	12	24	124	30	970	5	-	15	1	2	2	80	35	5	73	5	27	2	21	2	5	12	12	5	1	-	-	-	1534
1986	-	35	14	7	12	23	116	35	953	4	1	7	5	5	1	68	32	3	62	4	19	5	25	1	6	10	12	3	2	-	-	-	1470
1987	-	59	23	11	14	14	149	31	1185	11	-	12	9	12	4	110	19	6	70	5	21	10	10	-	1	7	18	4	4	-	-	-	1819
1988	-	29	3	15	10	16	129	35	966	-	-	10	6	2	2	94	28	2	67	6	7	9	10	3	4	8	14	3	-	3	-	-	1481
1989	-	49	7	7	3	21	107	52	1013	10	-	7	4	6	1	76	17	2	68	2	17	6	18	2	3	11	9	5	2	8	4	-	1537
1990	-	26	2	11	8	16	120	43	925	5	1	6	-	2	1	63	8	3	44	1	22	2	9	5	4	7	11	2	2	11	12	-	1372
1991	-	43	8	10	7	19	137	27	1016	4	-	22	3	2	2	65	13	1	64	2	14	6	7	-	1	9	16	4	1	9	5	-	1517
1993	-	49	16	9	5	18	123	46	1061	9	1	12	6	2	2	70	14	4	70	2	11	7	24	2	4	12	6	5	3	10	3	-	1606
1994	-	38	17	9	2	22	87	34	2506	23	3	14	2	1	3	68	16	5	55	5	17	6	12	2	3	6	15	4	-	8	9	-	2992
2004	-	44	10	16	7	8	80	68	2431	2	4	9	2	2	2	57	3	1	34	1	3	1	8	3	-	5	5	2	-	4	-	-	2812
2006	-	76	17	19	24	23	195	95	3765	2	11	10	7	1	5	110	18	1	69	1	4	5	17	8	-	3	8	1	2	7	6	-	4510
2008	-	63	12	17	21	27	140	95	1461	10	3	10	3	4	2	67	2	2	48	1	4	2	10	5	-	4	4	-	-	6	-	-	2023
2010	-	63	14	17	12	26	99	72	1573	1	7	4	3	3	1	66	11	-	33	-	3	1	5	4	-	2	5	2	-	9	8	-	2044
2012	-	42	10	13	13	15	125	104	1476	2	7	12	4	-	-	61	8	1	41	2	5	1	7	5	3	2	2	-	-	7	6	-	1974
2014	-	45	14	18	14	17	115	152	1936	12	7	11	2	5	-	65	8	6	58	1	4	2	15	1	3	3	5	3	-	13	3	-	2538
2016	-	50	11	17	10	12	137	130	2279	7	12	11	6	4	2	72	12	4	39	1	2	6	16	5	3	-	1	4	1	9	4	-	2867
2018	-	55	15	10	11	11	112	114	1853	4	11	7	4	1	1	54	11	-	35	2	3	2	7	5	-	3	2	5	1	5	4	-	2348
2021	-	99	20	39	30	27	123	250	3181	3	15	12	8	4	5	56	6	3	71	-	2	4	20	5	6	5	3	5	1	16	10	3	4032
2022	-	69	13	18	13	19	97	193	2902	23	-	14	7	2	2	59	12	1	43	3	4	3	15	1	-	5	5	5	-	10	6	-	3544
Total	0	2816	1331	1041	690	601	3611	1949	42516	183	94	216	92	61	42	1416	302	51	1115	51	207	86	273	60	49	129	174	65	20	135	80	3	59459

See also

Other Core: coden_1222, denom16_7322, denom_7222, major1_1222, major2_1222

Other Religion: coden_1222, denom16_7322, denom_7222