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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