Spouse's religious preference

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Source

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

Details

Question 115. In what religion were you raised?

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	catholic	jewish	no answer	none	other	protestant	don't know	buddhism	christian	hinduism	inter-nondenominational	muslim/islam	native american	other eastern religions	orthodox-christian	skipped on web	not available in this release	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	428	264	26	8	56	14	708	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	419	261	43	3	46	7	705	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	488	247	17	-	50	10	676	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	525	253	16	2	61	8	633	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	555	257	20	3	47	9	639	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	572	258	17	4	55	11	614	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	579	225	20	3	46	18	568	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	867	231	21	8	60	12	659	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	634	264	24	5	58	13	601	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	644	210	16	11	40	16	536	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1473
1985	663	228	25	5	43	11	559	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1534
1986	644	224	20	4	45	17	513	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	903	188	19	7	54	21	627	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1819
1988	693	176	15	-	60	22	515	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1481
1989	690	227	10	7	59	27	516	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1537
1990	645	191	17	4	52	20	442	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1372
1991	713	222	15	2	55	11	499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1517
1993	747	198	23	8	70	23	536	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1606
1994	2213	188	9	18	67	28	468	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2992
1996	2904	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2904
1998	2832	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2832
2000	2817	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2817
2002	2765	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2765
2004	2133	174	11	1	91	1	356	-	3	24	3	4	5	1	5	-	-	-	2812
2006	3095	404	32	1	184	6	718	-	8	26	7	-	14	3	8	4	-	-	4510
2008	1046	227	22	9	124	7	522	3	5	31	5	-	6	-	9	7	-	-	2023
2010	1152	224	23	1	128	2	444	-	7	26	2	7	11	-	9	8	-	-	2044
2012	1074	217	18	2	125	3	451	10	2	45	7	-	11	3	3	3	-	-	1974
2014	1376	302	17	12	198	6	526	7	4	63	12	1	9	-	-	5	-	-	2538
2016	1654	316	25	7	213	11	552	18	5	29	11	3	10	3	5	5	-	-	2867
2018	1348	233	20	3	182	8	477	5	8	15	5	1	22	1	17	3	-	-	2348
2021	2053	466	27	3	487	44	801	24	20	47	25	3	-	1	1	-	30	-	4032
2022	2067	362	29	23	329	17	605	16	11	22	16	-	19	-	3	15	10	-	3544
2024	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3309	3309
Total	43551	7237	597	164	3085	403	16466	105	73	328	93	19	107	12	60	50	40	3309	75699

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