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VAR CF0129 RELIGION OF R(4)

VAR CF0129    RELIGION OF R(4)                                                
              COLUMNS 129  - 131                                              
              NUMERIC                                                         
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 996                                               

        1960-1970: (IF PROTESTANT:) What church is that, Baptist, Methodist   
        or what?                                                              
                                                                              
        1972-1988: (IF PROTESTANT:) What church or denomination is that?      
        (IF BAPTIST:) Is that Southern Baptist or something else?             
                                                                              
        RELIGION [4]                                                          
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.                        
                                                                              
        SEE APPENDIX "RELIGION 1960-1988".  SEE QUESTION TEXT AND NOTES       
        VCF0128. THESE QUESTIONS FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS IN VCF0128.              
                                                                              
        SEE ALSO:   VCF0152 (1990 and later).                                 
                                                                              
        Note that the addition in 1972 of "Is that Southern Baptist or        
        something else?" significantly changed distributions of Protestant    
        Baptists beginning in that year.                                      
                                                                              
        Beginning in 1990, the full set of religion codes 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 gives the 'new' set of full        
        codes, and the appendix "RELIGON 1960-1988" provides 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.   
                                                                              
               100-800.  Religion as coded                                    
                                                                              
               996.  REFUSED                                                  
               998.  DK; NONE; NO PREFERENCE                                  
               999.  NA; no post (1960)                                       
               000.  INAP, question not used                                  
                                                                              
        1960:  252        1964:  235         1966:  221                       
        1968:  213        1970:  361(type 0) 1972:  422                       
        1974:  2551       1976:  3510        1978:  605                       
        1980:  693        1982:  734         1984:  687                       
        1986:  737        1988:  527                                          
                                                                              
                                                                              
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Walter Mebane
Mon Nov 12 02:55:58 EST 2001