VAR CF0128 RELIGION OF R (1) COLUMNS 126 - 126 NUMERIC MD EQ 0 1952-1964: Is your Church (1962: religious) preference Protestant, Catholic or Jewish? 1966-1968: Are you Protestant, Catholic or Jewish? 1970-1988: Is your religious preference Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or something else? 1990 and later: (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 religous 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? RELIGION [1], MAJOR CATEGORIES ------------------------------------------------------------------- USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B. SEE ALSO VCF0129 AND VCF0152 FOR FULL RELIGION CODES. Question wording in 1948 is undocumented. In all presidential-year studies except 1960 this was a pre var. In 1990 and later only, 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?' (SEE VCF0130). THIS CHANGE HAS HAD SOME EFFECT ON DISTRIBUTIONS: SEE AN INCREASE IN THE PROPORTION CODED 4. In 1952-1988, just 1 variable appeared in each study's data and codebook; this single variable SUMMARIZED R's responses to that year's entire set of questions [see VCF0129 for texts of questions asked 1960-1988 in addition to those questions appearing above; in 1952- 1958, no questions other than those listed above were asked] and contained a full set of religion-denomination codes. For 1952-1988, CDF var VCF0128 has been collapsed from the religion-denomination codes appearing in the single study variable. Beginning in 1990, however, each question listed above (as well as each question asked in addition to--expanding upon- the questions listed above) had its own responses coded into an individual variable; a summary variable of full codes was also constructed. For 1990 and thereafter, in the interest of comparability, CDF VCF0128 has been collapsed from the summary variable of full codes in a similar manner as in previous years. In 1992, this question was not part of the short-form questionnaire; for short-form 'panel' cases, however, 1990 study data were incorporated into the religion summary variable. In 1994, 1992 data were incorporated for 'panel' cases. 1. Protestant 2. Catholic [Roman Catholic] 3. Jewish 4. Other and none (also includes DK preference) 0. DK; NA; refused to answer; no post (1960); no pre (1948,1952); short-form 'new' cross section (1992) 1948: 50 1952: 158 1954: 21 1956: 132 1958: 210 1960: 252 1962: 93 1964: 235 1966: 221 1968: 213 1970: 360(type 0) 1972: 422 1974: 2551 1976: 3510 1978: 605 1980: 693 1982: 734 1984: 687 1986: 737 1988: 527 1990: 525,546 1992: 3827,3850 1994: 1101,1122 1996: 960602 1998: 980542, 980569 ==============================