VAR CF0152 RELIGION OF R (5)

VAR CF0152    RELIGION OF R (5)                                               
              COLUMNS 167  - 169                                              
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 998                                               

        (IF R ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICES:)  Do you mostly attend a place of   
        worship that is Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, or what?          
        (IF R DOESN'T ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES:)  Regardless of whether you  
        now attend any religious services do you ever think of yourself as    
        part of a particular church or denomination?  (IF YES:) Do you        
        consider yourself Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, or what?        
                                                                              
        (PROTESTANTS:)                                                        
        (IF BAPTIST:) With which Baptist group is your church associated?  Is 
        it the Southern Baptist Convention, the American Baptist Churches in  
        the USA, the American Baptist Association, [1992-later: the National  
        Baptist Convention U.S.A.,]an independent Baptist church or some other
        Baptist group?  (IF INDEPENDENT BAPTIST:) Are you affiliated with any 
        larger Baptist group or is this strictly a local church?              
        (IF LUTHERAN:) Is this church part of the Evangelical Lutheran Curch  
        in America, the Missouri Synod, or some other Lutheran group?         
        (IF METHODIST:) Is your church part of the United Methodist Church,   
        African Methodist Episcopal, or some other Methodist group?           
        (IF PRESBYTERIAN:) Is this the Presbyterian Church in the USA or some 
        other Presbyterian group?                                             
        (IF REFORMED:) Is this the Christian Reformed Church, the Reformed    
        Church in America, or some other Reformed group?                      
        (IF BRETHREN:) Is this the Church of the Brethren, the Plymouth       
        Brethren, or what?                                                    
        (IF CHRISTIAN OR JUST CHRISTIAN:) When you say "Christian" does that  
        mean the denomination called the "Christian Church (Disciples of      
        Christ)," or some other Christian denomination, or do you mean to say 
        "I am just a Christian?"                                              
        (IF CHURCH OR CHURCHES OF CHRIST:) Is this the Church of Christ or    
        United Church of Christ?                                              
        (IF CHURCH OF GOD:) Is this the Church of God of Anderson Indiana, the
        Church of God of Cleveland Tennessee, the Church of God in Christ, or 
        some other Church of God?                                             
        (IF HOLINESS OR PENTECOSTAL:) What kind of church is that?  What is it
        called exactly?  Is that part of a larger church or denomination? What
        is that church called?                                                
                                                                              
        (IF OTHER:) What is it called exactly?  Is that church part of a      
        denomination?  Is that group Christian?                               
                                                                              
        (IF JEWISH:) (IF R ATTENDS JEWISH RELIGIOUS SERVICES:) Do you usually 
        attend a synagogue or temple that is Orothodox, Conservative, Reform  
        or what?  (IF R DOES NOT ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES BUT CONSIDERS SELF 
        JEWISH:) Do you consider yourself Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or   
        what?                                                                 
                                                                              
        RELIGION [2]                                                          
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        SEE APPENDIX "RELIGION 1990 AND LATER"                                
        SEE ALSO:   VCF0129.                                                  
                                                                              
        Beginning in 1990, the full set of religion codes (in VCF0129 for     
        1960-1988) was expanded considerably, by adding codes for different   
        affiliations within the major mainline Protestant denominations and by
        reworking almost entirely the Pentecostal, Holiness, fundamentalist,  
        and evangelical Protestant denominations.  VCF0152 provides the 'new' 
        set of full religion codes, and appendix "RELIGION 1990 AND LATER"    
        includes a rough 'translation table' relating the 1960-1988 full      
        religion set of codes to the newer set of full religion codes which   
        begins in 1990.                                                       
                                                                              
        Questions about religious affiliation were preceded by the filter     
        question, 'Lots of things come up that keep people from attending     
        religous services even if they want to.  Thinking about your life     
        these days, do you ever attend religious services, apart from         
        occasional weddings, baptisms or funerals?'   Following this filter   
        variable, the text of the main religious affiliation question differs 
        according to how R answered the filter variable.                      
                                                                              
        In 1992, this set of questions was not part of the short-form         
        questionnaire; for short-form 'panel' cases, however, 1990 study data 
        were incorporated into the 1992 religion summary variable.            
                                                                              
        In 1994, 1992 data were incorporated for 'panel' cases.               
                                                                              
        Note that in 1992 several changes were made:  codes 127 and 133 have  
        been combined into code 127 [no 1992 code 133]; code 102 has been     
        moved to become code 306 [no 1992 code 102]; and codes 267 and 261    
        have been added (new).                                                
                                                                              
        In 1994, the following codes were added: 111,186,234,262.             
        In 1996, code 240 was added.                                          
        In 1998, codes 263,264,524,725,726,727 were added.                    
                                                                              
           10-790.  Religion as coded                                         
           800.     Agnostics                                                 
           801.     Atheists                                                  
           997.     Other                                                     
                                                                              
           998.     None; no preference; don't know preference; DK; refused   
           999.     NA; short-form 'new' cross-section (1992)                 
           000.     INAP, question not used                                   
                                                                              
        1990:  546           1992:  3850           1994:  1122                
        1996:  960602        1998:  980569                                    
                                                                              
                                                                              
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