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Phone: Religion

GRELI Religion Module            

For more information on the Religion Module see Appendix I.

OVERVIEW

The religion section for the 2004 round of data collection replicates the 1993
collection with one change.  The 2004 module only asks questions about the
respondent's spouse if the respondent married this spouse after the 1993
interview and still lives with this spouse.  Because of these constraints,
fewer than 300 respondents actually received the spouse questions.  Otherwise,
the module follows the same pattern it has since 1975 by measuring religious
preference and frequency of attendance for the respondent and the spouse if
appropriate.  Each new round of data collection has yielded new religious
denominations, so the list of denominations has grown over the years.

BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

    GL101RE:        Indicates if GR is in 80% Religion Sample

    GL001RE:        GR's Religious Preference (Denomination)
 
    GL002REC:       Raw Numeric Component for Frequency of GR's Religious 
                    Attendance in Past Year

    GL003RED:       Units to Go with Numeric Component for Frequency of 
                    GR's Religious Attendance.
    
    GL004REC:       Frequency of GR's Religious Attendance Converted From 
                    Raw Numeric Component and Units to Total Times in the 
                    Past Year

    GL005SPC:       Do GR and Spouse Share Same Religious Preference 
                    (Denomination)?

    GL006SPC:       Spouse's Religious Preference (Denomination)

    GL007SPC:       Is Spouse's Religous Preference the Same Now as 
                    Before They were Married?

    GL008SPD:       Spouse's Religious Preference (Denomination) Before 
                    GR and Spouse were Married

gl101re: Is graduate in the religion sample of 80%?

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
0 NOT IN SAMPLE, ALCFLAG=0 739 861 1600
1 IN 80% SAMPLE, PROCEED 2631 3034 5665
Note: Religion, cognition, volunteer, digit ordering, and alcohol and depression are asked of the same sample.

gl001re: What is graduate's religious preference?

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j448s, c_j448s, c_j448t

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-4 NOT ASCERTAINED 1 0 1
-3 REFUSED 20 6 26
-2 739 861 1600
-1 DON'T KNOW 3 2 5
0 No Religion, None 238 167 405
1 Roman Catholic 947 1150 2097
2 Greek Orthodox 0 3 3
6 Eastern Orthodox 1 2 3
7 Jewish 23 29 52
10 Scientologist 1 0 1
12 Yoga 1 1 2
13 Church Of Religious Science 0 3 3
14 Metaphysicist 1 3 4
17 Bahai 0 1 1
18 Protestant (No Denomination Given, Born Again, Born Again Christian, Christian, No Preference, Nothing Particular) 45 35 80
19 Protestant, Non-Denominational (R Must Have Used The Words 'Non-Denominational' For Religious Preference) 13 11 24
20 Community Church, No Denomination 1 1 2
21 Evangelical 11 11 22
22 Evangelical Free 4 8 12
23 Covenant 2 0 2
28 Evangelical Covenant 0 3 3
29 Charismatic Christian 1 0 1
32 Christian 59 53 112
34 Moravian 3 6 9
37 First Assembly Of God 0 1 1
38 Presbyterian 67 76 143
39 Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran, Congregational Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Synod Lutheran 691 833 1524
40 United Church Of Christ, Congregational Evangelical And Reformed 43 77 120
41 Episcopalian, Anglican 23 39 62
42 Reformed, Dutch, Swiss, And Christian Reformed, First Reformed, Church Of America 9 12 21
43 United Methodist, Methodist, Evangelical United Brethren, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Nazarene Free Methodist 173 198 371
44 Baptist, Southern Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist 46 54 100
46 Disciples Of Christ 1 2 3
48 Church Of God, Church Of Christ, Church Of God And Christ 3 7 10
50 Brethren 0 1 1
51 Salvation Army 0 2 2
52 Seventh Day Adventist 2 4 6
54 Advent Christian 1 1 2
55 Swedish Mission Covenant 0 1 1
60 Bible Church, Bible Chapel 1 0 1
63 Fundamentalist 0 1 1
65 Christian Missionary Alliance 2 1 3
68 Pentecostal, Assembly Of God 18 21 39
69 Christian Scientist 1 5 6
70 Mormon, Latter Day Saints 7 6 13
71 Jehovah's Witnesses 8 12 20
72 Unity 2 6 8
74 Quaker 1 2 3
75 Unitarian 3 14 17
77 Islam/Muslim (OTHER CODE 8) 0 1 1
83 Zen Buddhist 0 1 1
85 Pantheist 0 1 1
87 Nazarene 0 5 5
88 Native American, American Indian 1 0 1
90 Congregational 15 16 31
91 Interdenominational 2 6 8
92 Ecumenical 0 1 1
93 Agnostic 15 8 23
94 Atheist 0 3 3
96 Other religions, not established religion or changing religion with no clue of what they are changing to 3 2 5
100 Independently Faithful, Personal Religion 15 20 35
101 Christian Non-Denominational with no mention of Protestantism 13 7 20
102 Non-Denominational (No Further Specification) 9 17 26
103 Universal/All Religions OK/No Preference 1 6 7
104 Gnosticism 1 1 2
105 New Thought (Christian-Based) 1 1 2
Note: The following codes were added for the current round of data collection.
- 100 'Independently faithful' - several respondents reported faith independent of organized religion. Examples include 'i just believe in god,' reading the bible, personal belief systems, self-reported sense of spirituality, etc (mostly Judeo-Christian themes). This is not meant to be the same as 'no religion'.

- 101 'Non-denominational Christian' - several respondents used the term non-denominational but without saying protestant, such that code 19 was not usable and 32 was insufficiently specific.

- 102 'Non-denominational' - in similar fashion, several respondents said non-denominational without elaborating at all. Interviewers rarely pressed for any more information.

- 103 'Universal/all religions ok/no pref' - some respondents wanted to be classified this way, instead of being considered irreligious. Merits of all religions was a theme in such cases.

- 104 Gnosticism

- 105 'New Thought(Christian-based)'
Note: In order to get the codes 18 and 19, respondent would have to have said protestant to the initial religion question, and then specified the denomination in the subsequent question. Nobody was given these codes otherwise; several were classified as 18 when they did not know/refused their protestant denomination or the denomination was unrecognized but known to be protestant.
Note: For 2004, all codes not in (0 1 7 18 19 21 32 38-44 68 71 90 93 96 100 101 102) were collapsed into "OTHER" (96) on the public release.

gl002rec: Raw numeric component for frequency of religious attendance in past year.

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j452f_a

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-4 NOT ASCERTAINED-ERROR/UNCODABLE 0 1 1
-3 REFUSED 19 4 23
-2 739 861 1600
-1 DON'T KNOW 9 11 20
0 NONE/NO SERVICES ATTENDED 482 341 823
1 845 1171 2016
2 - 4 502 618 1120
5 - 40 473 467 940
42 - 366 223 354 577

gl003red: Units to go with numeric component for frequency of religious attendance.

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j452f_a, j452f_b

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-2 1249 1218 2467
1 DAY 23 36 59
2 WEEK 774 1205 1979
3 MONTH 227 312 539
4 YEAR 1019 1057 2076
Note: This variable is only appropriate if the respondent gave a positive numeric value for church attendance. It wouldn't make sense to give the units for don't know, refused, zero attendance, or not ascertained.

gl004rec: Frequency of religious attendance converted to total times in the past year.

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j452f_a, j452f_b

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-4 NOT ASCERTAINED 0 1 1
-3 REFUSED 19 4 23
-2 739 861 1600
-1 DON'T KNOW 9 11 20
0 Never, Or Less Than Once A Year 482 341 823
1 1-2 Times Per Year 212 158 370
2 3-5 Times Per Year 187 181 368
3 6-9 Times Per Year 101 100 201
4 Approximately Once A Month (10-18 Times Per Year) 177 165 342
5 Approximately Twice A Month (19-29 Times Per Year) 148 179 327
6 Approximately Three Times A Month (30-44 Times Per Year) 162 179 341
7 Approximately Once A Week (45-78 Times Per Year) 901 1365 2266
8 Approximately Twice A Week (79-128 Times Per Year) 76 135 211
9 Approximately Three Times A Week (129-175 Times Per Year) 28 61 89
10 4-6 Times Per Week (176-320 Times Per Year) 20 42 62
11 Approximately Once A Day Or More (321-730 Times Per Year) 31 45 76
Note: This variable was constructed from the previous two. A 'don't know', 'refused', or 'not ascertained' in GL002REC leads to the same value here (in GL004REC). An inap in GL003RED does not always imply a missing value in GL004REC. GL003REC could have been skipped because GL002REC was zero, but this still leads to a meaningful value (zero) for attendance.

gl005spc: Does graduate's spouse share Graduate Respondent's religious preference?

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: j452g, married, j452m

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-3 REFUSED(END GRELI) 1 0 1
-2 3158 3740 6898
-1 DON'T KNOW 4 0 4
1 YES 96 66 162
2 NO 33 22 55
Note: People were only asked the spouse questions if they had married after the previous wave, were still in that marriage at the time of the interview, and were living with that spouse. This eliminated many respondents, including those still married to the same spouse as in the previous interview.

gl006spc: What is your spouse's religious preference?

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: GL001RE, j452g, married, j452m, j452q, c_j452q, c_j454n

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-3 REFUSED 0 1 1
-2 3163 3740 6903
-1 DON'T KNOW 0 1 1
0 No Religion, None 20 8 28
1 Roman Catholic 34 28 62
7 Jewish 1 0 1
18 Protestant (No Denomination Given, Born Again, Born Again Christian, Christian, No Preference, Nothing Particular) 3 1 4
19 Protestant, Non-Denominational (R Must Have Used The Words 'Non-Denominational' For Religious Preference) 1 1 2
21 Evangelical 1 0 1
28 Evangelical Covenant 0 1 1
32 Christian 2 0 2
34 Moravian 0 1 1
38 Presbyterian 8 5 13
39 Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran, Congregational Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Synod Lutheran 24 20 44
40 United Church Of Christ, Congregational Evangelical And Reformed 1 0 1
41 Episcopalian, Anglican 1 1 2
43 United Methodist, Methodist, Evangelical United Brethren, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Nazarene Free Methodist 13 6 19
44 Baptist, Southern Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist 6 5 11
52 Seventh Day Adventist 2 1 3
68 Pentecostal, Assembly Of God 2 0 2
69 Christian Scientist 1 0 1
70 Mormon, Latter Day Saints 1 1 2
71 Jehovah's Witnesses 1 0 1
74 Quaker 1 0 1
75 Unitarian 0 2 2
87 Nazarene 0 2 2
91 Interdenominational 2 0 2
94 Atheist 0 1 1
100 Independently Faithful, Personal Religion 1 2 3
101 Christian Non-Denominational with no mention of Protestantism 2 0 2
102 Non-Denominational (No Further Specification) 1 0 1
Note: The following codes were added for the current round of data collection.
- 100 'Independently faithful' - several respondents reported faith independent of organized religion. Examples include 'i just believe in god,' reading the bible, personal belief systems, self-reported sense of spirituality, etc (mostly Judeo-Christian themes). This is not meant to be the same as 'no religion'.

- 101 'Non-denominational Christian' - several respondents used the term non-denominational but without saying protestant, such that code 19 was not usable and 32 was insufficiently specific.

- 102 'Non-denominational' - in similar fashion, several respondents said non-denominational without elaborating at all. Interviewers rarely pressed for any more information.

- 103 'Universal/all religions ok/no pref' - some respondents wanted to be classified this way, instead of being considered irreligious. Merits of all religions was a theme in such cases.

- 104 Gnosticism

- 105 'New Thought(Christian-based)'
Note: In order to get the codes 18 and 19, respondent would have to have said protestant to the initial religion question, and then specified the denomination in the subsequent question. Nobody was given these codes otherwise; several were classified as 18 when they did not know/refused their protestant denomination or the denomination was unrecognized but known to be protestant.
Note: People were only asked the spouse questions if they had married after the previous wave, were still in that marriage at the time of the interview, and were living with that spouse. This eliminated many respondents, including those still married to the same spouse as in the previous interview.
Note: Was skipped if GL005SPC was don't know or refused.
Note: For 2004, all codes not in (0 1 39 43) were collapsed into "OTHER" (96) on the public release.

gl007spc: Is your spouse's religious preference the same now as before they you two were married?

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: married, j452g, j452m, j454s

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-2 3159 3740 6899
-1 DON'T KNOW 6 1 7
1 YES 109 74 183
2 NO 18 13 31
Note: People were only asked the spouse questions if they had married after the previous wave, were still in that marriage at the time of the interview, and were living with that spouse. This eliminated many respondents, including those still married to the same spouse as in the previous interview.
Note: Was skipped if GL005SPC was refused, since this must indicate unwillingness to discuss spouse's religion at all. Interestingly, was not skipped if GL005SPC was don't know, though lack of knowledge of spouse's religion usually implies inability to answer this question as well.

gl008spd: What was spouse's religious preference before you two were married?

Data source: Graduate Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: GL006SPC, j452g, j452m, married, j454s, j455, c_j455, c_j454r if ever needed
Revisions: Updated 10/06     

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 1621 1431 3052
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 78 67 145
-2 671 1171 1842
-1 DON'T KNOW 0 3 3
0 No Religion, None 129 177 306
1 Roman Catholic 999 1047 2046
2 Greek Orthodox 1 4 5
3 Russian Orthodox 2 2 4
5 Serbian Orthodox 2 0 2
7 Jewish 27 29 56
13 Church Of Religious Science 1 0 1
17 Bahai 0 1 1
18 Protestant (No Denomination Given, Born Again, Born Again Christian, Christian, No Preference, Nothing Particular) 40 29 69
19 Protestant, Non-Denominational (R Must Have Used The Words 'Non-Denominational' For Religious Preference) 12 6 18
21 Evangelical 4 7 11
22 Evangelical Free 6 6 12
23 Covenant 0 3 3
28 Evangelical Covenant 0 1 1
29 Charismatic Christian 0 2 2
31 First Christian 1 0 1
32 Christian 21 13 34
33 Gospel Hall 0 1 1
34 Moravian 5 4 9
35 Mennonite 1 1 2
37 First Assembly Of God 3 2 5
38 Presbyterian 84 80 164
39 Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran, Congregational Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Synod Lutheran 774 761 1535
40 United Church Of Christ, Congregational Evangelical And Reformed 76 80 156
41 Episcopalian, Anglican 40 40 80
42 Reformed, Dutch, Swiss, And Christian Reformed, First Reformed, Church Of America 12 16 28
43 United Methodist, Methodist, Evangelical United Brethren, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Nazarene Free Methodist 208 208 416
44 Baptist, Southern Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist 82 66 148
46 Disciples Of Christ 1 0 1
48 Church Of God, Church Of Christ, Church Of God And Christ 9 3 12
50 Brethren 1 0 1
51 Salvation Army 0 1 1
52 Seventh Day Adventist 5 3 8
60 Bible Church, Bible Chapel 1 2 3
61 Fundamental Bible Church 1 0 1
63 Fundamentalist 2 1 3
64 Unification Church 1 0 1
65 Christian Missionary Alliance 5 1 6
66 Armenian Apostolic 0 1 1
68 Pentecostal, Assembly Of God 15 9 24
69 Christian Scientist 3 7 10
70 Mormon, Latter Day Saints 6 7 13
71 Jehovah's Witnesses 5 1 6
73 Spiritualistic 0 1 1
74 Quaker 3 1 4
75 Unitarian 2 6 8
77 Islam/Muslim (OTHER CODE 8) 1 1 2
81 Worldwide Church Of God 1 1 2
82 Armenian Orthodox 0 1 1
83 Zen Buddhist 5 0 5
85 Pantheist 1 0 1
86 Ukrainian Orthodox 0 1 1
87 Nazarene 2 4 6
90 Congregational 5 4 9
91 Interdenominational 1 0 1
93 Agnostic 1 1 2
94 Atheist 0 1 1
96 Other religions, not established religion or changing religion with no clue of what they are changing to 10 8 18
100 Independently Faithful, Personal Religion 1 2 3
101 Christian Non-Denominational with no mention of Protestantism 2 0 2
102 Non-Denominational (No Further Specification) 1 0 1
Note: The following codes were added for the current round of data collection.
- 100 'Independently faithful' - several respondents reported faith independent of organized religion. Examples include 'i just believe in god,' reading the bible, personal belief systems, self-reported sense of spirituality, etc (mostly Judeo-Christian themes). This is not meant to be the same as 'no religion'.

- 101 'Non-denominational Christian' - several respondents used the term non-denominational but without saying protestant, such that code 19 was not usable and 32 was insufficiently specific.

- 102 'Non-denominational' - in similar fashion, several respondents said non-denominational without elaborating at all. Interviewers rarely pressed for any more information.

- 103 'Universal/all religions ok/no pref' - some respondents wanted to be classified this way, instead of being considered irreligious. Merits of all religions was a theme in such cases.

- 104 Gnosticism

- 105 'New Thought(Christian-based)'
Note: In order to get the codes 18 and 19, respondent would have to have said protestant to the initial religion question, and then specified the denomination in the subsequent question. Nobody was given these codes otherwise; several were classified as 18 when they did not know/refused their protestant denomination or the denomination was unrecognized but known to be protestant.
Note: People were only asked the spouse questions if they had married after the previous wave, were still in that marriage at the time of the interview, and were living with that spouse. This eliminated many respondents, including those still married to the same spouse as in the previous interview.
Note: For 2004, all codes not in (0 1 38 39 43 44) were collapsed into "OTHER" (96) on the public release.
Note: Responses to 1992 variable RL008SPD were pulled in under the condition that R is still in 1993 marriage and RL008SPD>0.

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