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Phone: Religion

SRELI Sibling Module        

OVERVIEW

The religion section for the 2003 - 2005 round of data collection replicates
the 1992 - 1993 collection with one change.  The 2003 - 2005 module only asks
questions about the respondent's spouse if the respondent married this spouse
after the 1992 - 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

  cl101re:   Indicates if Sibling respondent is in 80% religion sample

  cl001re:   Sibling Respondent's religious preference (denomination)

  cl002rec:  Raw numeric component for frequency of Sibling Respondent's 
  	     religious attendance in past year

  cl003red:  Units to go with numeric component for frequency of Sibling 
  	     Respondent's religious attendance

  cl004rec:  Frequency of Sibling respondent's religious attendance converted
  	     from raw numeric component and units to total times in the past
  	     year

  cl005spc:  Do Sibling respondent and spouse share same religious preference 
  	     (denomination)?

  cl006spc:  Spouse's religious preference (denomination)

  cl007spc:  Is spouse's religious preference the same now as before they were
             married?

  cl008spd:  Spouse's religious preference (denomination) before Sibling 
  	     respondent and spouse were married


Note: See Cor 964 in Appendix I for variable creation details

cl101re: Is sibling respondent in the religion sample of 80%?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
0 NOT IN SAMPLE, ALCFLAG=0 423 491 914
1 IN 80% SAMPLE, PROCEED 1607 1749 3356

cl001re: What is the sibling's religious preference?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j448s, c_j448s, c_j448t

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 67 66 133
-3 REFUSED 10 5 15
-2 423 491 914
-1 DON'T KNOW 7 3 10
0 No Religion, None 162 107 269
1 Roman Catholic 543 611 1154
2 Greek Orthodox 0 2 2
6 Eastern Orthodox 0 1 1
7 Jewish 18 14 32
13 Church Of Religious Science 0 4 4
14 Metaphysicist 0 1 1
17 Bahai 1 1 2
18 Protestant (No Denomination Given, Born Again, Born Again Christian, Christian, No Preference, Nothing Particular) 13 11 24
19 Protestant, Non-Denominational (R Must Have Used The Words 'Non-Denominational' For Religious Preference) 5 10 15
20 Community Church, No Denomination 3 1 4
21 Evangelical 7 12 19
22 Evangelical Free 7 2 9
23 Covenant 2 0 2
28 Evangelical Covenant 1 1 2
29 Charismatic Christian 1 1 2
31 First Christian 1 0 1
32 Christian 44 36 80
34 Moravian 2 3 5
35 Mennonite 2 0 2
38 Presbyterian 38 48 86
39 Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran, Congregational Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Synod Lutheran 395 457 852
40 United Church Of Christ, Congregational Evangelical And Reformed 23 34 57
41 Episcopalian, Anglican 17 26 43
42 Reformed, Dutch, Swiss, And Christian Reformed, First Reformed, Church Of America 9 9 18
43 United Methodist, Methodist, Evangelical United Brethren, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Nazarene Free Methodist 109 142 251
44 Baptist, Southern Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist 34 37 71
46 Disciples Of Christ 0 1 1
48 Church Of God, Church Of Christ, Church Of God And Christ 2 3 5
51 Salvation Army 0 1 1
52 Seventh Day Adventist 1 2 3
54 Advent Christian 0 1 1
60 Bible Church, Bible Chapel 3 2 5
65 Christian Missionary Alliance 1 1 2
68 Pentecostal, Assembly Of God 12 11 23
69 Christian Scientist 2 2 4
70 Mormon, Latter Day Saints 4 0 4
71 Jehovah's Witnesses 4 10 14
72 Unity 2 4 6
73 Spiritualistic 0 1 1
74 Quaker 1 0 1
75 Unitarian 2 4 6
77 Islam/Muslim (OTHER CODE 8) 0 1 1
80 Taoist 1 0 1
83 Zen Buddhist 3 2 5
85 Pantheist 1 0 1
87 Nazarene 2 4 6
90 Congregational 7 9 16
91 Interdenominational 2 1 3
92 Ecumenical 0 1 1
93 Agnostic 12 7 19
94 Atheist 6 0 6
96 Other religions, not established religion or changing religion with no clue of what they are changing to 0 3 3
100 Independently Faithful, Personal Religion 3 12 15
101 Christian Non-Denominational with no mention of Protestantism 8 9 17
102 Non-Denominational (No Further Specification) 4 9 13
103 Universal/All Religions OK/No Preference 3 2 5
105 New Thought (Christian-Based) 0 1 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: For 2005, 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.

cl002rec: Raw numeric component for frequency of religious attendance in past year.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j452f_a

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-3 REFUSED 8 7 15
-2 423 491 914
-1 DON'T KNOW 7 4 11
0 NONE/NO SERVICES ATTENDED 285 240 525
1 478 597 1075
2 - 3 254 286 540
4 - 20 257 294 551
24 - 365 250 255 505

cl003red: Units to go with numeric component for frequency of religious attendance.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j452f_a, j452f_b

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-2 723 742 1465
1 DAY 11 13 24
2 WEEK 457 605 1062
3 MONTH 133 200 333
4 YEAR 638 614 1252
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, or zero attendance.

cl004rec: Frequency of religious attendance converted to total times in the past year.

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: alcflag, j452f_a, j452f_b

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-2 438 502 940
0 Never, Or Less Than Once A Year 285 240 525
1 1-2 Times Per Year 132 98 230
2 3-5 Times Per Year 115 114 229
3 6-9 Times Per Year 57 59 116
4 Approximately Once A Month (10-18 Times Per Year) 99 118 217
5 Approximately Twice A Month (19-29 Times Per Year) 71 88 159
6 Approximately Three Times A Month (30-44 Times Per Year) 90 104 194
7 Approximately Once A Week (45-78 Times Per Year) 559 707 1266
8 Approximately Twice A Week (79-128 Times Per Year) 71 73 144
9 Approximately Three Times A Week (129-175 Times Per Year) 14 31 45
10 4-6 Times Per Week (176-320 Times Per Year) 18 24 42
11 Approximately Once A Day Or More (321-730 Times Per Year) 13 16 29
Note: This variable was constructed from the previous two. A don't know or refused in CL002REC leads
to an inap value here, even though refusing or not knowing one of the components of a constructed
variable could imply refusing or not knowing the variable itself. An inap in CL003RED does not always
imply a missing value in 004. 003 could have been skipped because 002 was zero, but this still leads
to a meaningful value (zero) for attendance.

cl005spc: Does sibling's spouse share Sibling Respondent's religious preference?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: j452g, married, j452m

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-2 1810 2069 3879
-1 DON'T KNOW 1 2 3
1 YES 123 77 200
2 NO 28 26 54
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.

cl006spc: What is spouse's religious preference?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: CL001RE, j452g, married, j452m, j452q, c_j452q, c_j454n

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-2 1811 2071 3882
-1 DON'T KNOW 1 1 2
0 No Religion, None 13 14 27
1 Roman Catholic 49 31 80
7 Jewish 1 0 1
18 Protestant (No Denomination Given, Born Again, Born Again Christian, Christian, No Preference, Nothing Particular) 3 2 5
21 Evangelical 0 1 1
22 Evangelical Free 1 0 1
32 Christian 6 3 9
38 Presbyterian 5 3 8
39 Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran, Congregational Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Synod Lutheran 33 26 59
40 United Church Of Christ, Congregational Evangelical And Reformed 6 2 8
41 Episcopalian, Anglican 1 1 2
43 United Methodist, Methodist, Evangelical United Brethren, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Nazarene Free Methodist 11 10 21
44 Baptist, Southern Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist 5 3 8
48 Church Of God, Church Of Christ, Church Of God And Christ 2 0 2
63 Fundamentalist 1 0 1
68 Pentecostal, Assembly Of God 1 1 2
69 Christian Scientist 1 1 2
75 Unitarian 1 1 2
83 Zen Buddhist 3 0 3
90 Congregational 2 0 2
100 Independently Faithful, Personal Religion 1 0 1
101 Christian Non-Denominational with no mention of Protestantism 2 1 3
102 Non-Denominational (No Further Specification) 2 1 3
105 New Thought (Christian-Based) 0 1 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 2005, all codes not in (0 1 39 43) were collapsed into "OTHER" (96) on the public release.
Note: Was skipped if 005 was don't know or refused.

cl007spc: Is your spouse's religious preference the same now as it was before you two were married?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: married, j452g, j452m, j454s

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-2 1810 2069 3879
-1 DON'T KNOW 1 4 5
1 YES 120 80 200
2 NO 31 21 52
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 005 was refused, since this must indicate unwillingness to discuss spouse's
religion at all. Interestingly, was not skipped if 005 was don't know, though lack of knowledge of
spouse's religion usually implies inability to answer this question as well.

cl008spd: What was your spouse's religious preference before you two were married?

Data source: Sibling Respondent      Collected in: 2005      Mode: phone
Source variables: CL006SPC, j452g, j452m, married, j454s, j455, c_j455, c_j454r if ever needed

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
. System missing - NR 2407 2101 4508
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 68 66 134
-2 1812 2074 3886
-1 DON'T KNOW 1 0 1
0 No Religion, None 10 13 23
1 Roman Catholic 53 33 86
7 Jewish 1 0 1
18 Protestant (No Denomination Given, Born Again, Born Again Christian, Christian, No Preference, Nothing Particular) 4 1 5
21 Evangelical 0 1 1
22 Evangelical Free 1 0 1
32 Christian 5 2 7
38 Presbyterian 4 6 10
39 Lutheran, Evangelical Lutheran, Congregational Lutheran, Reformed Lutheran, Synod Lutheran 32 23 55
40 United Church Of Christ, Congregational Evangelical And Reformed 5 3 8
41 Episcopalian, Anglican 2 2 4
43 United Methodist, Methodist, Evangelical United Brethren, Free Methodist, Primitive Methodist, Nazarene Free Methodist 10 8 18
44 Baptist, Southern Baptist, Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist 6 5 11
48 Church Of God, Church Of Christ, Church Of God And Christ 1 0 1
52 Seventh Day Adventist 1 0 1
63 Fundamentalist 1 0 1
68 Pentecostal, Assembly Of God 3 1 4
69 Christian Scientist 1 1 2
75 Unitarian 2 0 2
83 Zen Buddhist 2 0 2
90 Congregational 1 0 1
100 Independently Faithful, Personal Religion 1 0 1
101 Christian Non-Denominational with no mention of Protestantism 1 0 1
102 Non-Denominational (No Further Specification) 2 1 3
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 2005, all codes not in (0 1 38 39 43 44) were collapsed into "OTHER" (96) on the public release.
Note: Was skipped if 007 was don't know or refused.

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