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QUESTION:
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1952-1964: Is your Church (1962: religious) preference Protestant,
Catholic or Jewish?
1966-1968: Are you Protestant, Catholic or Jewish?
1970-1988,2002: Is your religious preference Protestant, Catholic,
Jewish, or something else?
1990 AND LATER, exc. 2002: (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?
VALID_CODES:
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1. Protestant
2. Catholic [Roman Catholic]
3. Jewish
4. Other and none (also includes DK preference)
MISSING_CODES:
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0. DK; NA; refused to answer; no Pre IW; no Post IW;
short-form 'new' Cross Section (1992)
Inap. question not used
NOTES:
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See also VCF0129 and VCF0152.
GENERAL NOTE:
In all Pre-Post studies except 1960 this was a Pre var.
In 1990 and later exc. 2002, questions about religious affiliation were
preceded by the filter question, 'Lots of things come up that keep
people from attending religious 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?'
(SEE VCF0130), which had some effect on distributions.
This has been collapsed from the Study variable summarizing R's
religious self-identification, constructed from the complete set of
questions asked, usually including questions additional to those
documented here (see VCF0129).
1948 NOTE:
Question wording was undocumented.
1992 NOTE:
This question was not part of the 'short-form' questionnaire; for short-
form panel cases, however, 1990 study data were incorporated.
1994 NOTE:
For panel cases, 1992 data were incorporated.
2002 NOTE:
For panel cases, 2000 data were incorporated.
WEIGHT:
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VCF0009/VCF0009a
TYPE:
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Numeric Dec 0
SOURCE_VARS:
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1948: 480050
1952: 520158
1954: 540021
1956: 560132
1958: 580210
1960: 600252
1962: 620093
1964: 640235
1966: 660221
1968: 680213
1970: 700360(type 0)
1972: 720422
1974: 742551
1976: 763510
1978: 780605
1980: 800693
1982: 820734
1984: 840687
1986: 860737
1988: 880527
1990: 900525,900546
1992: 923827,923850
1994: 941102,941105,941122
1996: 960602
1998: 980542,980569
2000: 000878,000904
2002: 023138
2004: 043290,043291
Walter Mebane
2005-11-03