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Phone: Church Attendance

HRELI - Religion Module Graduate-Spouse Phone Instrument
	
For more information on the Religion Module see Appendix I.     


OVERVIEW

The religion section for the 2004 - 2006 interview of spouses of the WLS
graduates asks only one question.  This question asks about frequency of
attendance at religious services in the last year.  Answers are accepted at
the unit of day, week, month or year and converted into the total number of
times per year.  Religious preference of the spouses is not measured here
because it was collected in the 2003 - 2005 graduate instrument.


BRIEF VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS

  al101re - Indicates if GSR is in 80% religion sample

  al002rec - Raw numeric component for frequency of GSR's religious attendance
  	     in past year

  al003red - Units to go with numeric component for frequency of GSR's
  	     religious attendance

  al004rec - Frequency of GSR's religious attendance converted from raw numeric
	     component and units to total times in the past year

al101re: Is respondent in the religion sample?

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

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
0 NOT IN SAMPLE, ALCFLAG=0 408 449 857
1 IN 80% SAMPLE, PROCEED 1400 1633 3033
Note: Religion, recall, alcohol and depression are asked of the same sample.

al002rec: Raw numeric component for: About how often, if at all, have you attended religious services during the past year?

Data source: Graduate Spouse Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: h_j10_a

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 18 8 26
-3 REFUSED 6 1 7
-2 408 449 857
-1 DON'T KNOW 9 11 20
0 NONE/NO SERVICES ATTENDED 202 232 434
1 558 692 1250
2 - 3 211 302 513
4 - 40 256 274 530
42 - 366 140 113 253

al003red: Units to go with numeric component for: About how often, if at all, have you attended religious services during the past year?

Data source: Graduate Spouse Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: h_j10_b

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 18 8 26
-2 625 693 1318
1 DAY 21 14 35
2 WEEK 548 684 1232
3 MONTH 138 218 356
4 YEAR 458 465 923
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.

al004rec: Frequency of religious attendance converted to total times in the past year.

Data source: Graduate Spouse Respondent      Collected in: 2004      Mode: phone
Source variables: h_j10_a, h_j10_b

Frequencies
Value Label Male Female Total
-5 PARTIAL INTERVIEW 18 8 26
-3 REFUSED 6 1 7
-2 408 449 857
-1 DON'T KNOW 9 11 20
0 Never, Or Less Than Once A Year 202 232 434
1 1-2 Times Per Year 71 83 154
2 3-5 Times Per Year 90 111 201
3 6-9 Times Per Year 38 39 77
4 Approximately Once A Month (10-18 Times Per Year) 79 104 183
5 Approximately Twice A Month (19-29 Times Per Year) 76 111 187
6 Approximately Three Times A Month (30-44 Times Per Year) 75 94 169
7 Approximately Once A Week (45-78 Times Per Year) 637 718 1355
8 Approximately Twice A Week (79-128 Times Per Year) 41 73 114
9 Approximately Three Times A Week (129-175 Times Per Year) 18 23 41
10 4-6 Times Per Week (176-320 Times Per Year) 13 10 23
11 Approximately Once A Day Or More (321-730 Times Per Year) 27 15 42
Note: This variable was constructed from the previous two. A don't know or refused in AL002REC 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 AL003RED 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.

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