VAR CF0152 RELIGION OF R (5)

VAR CF0152    RELIGION OF R (5)
              COLUMNS 193-195
              NUMERIC
              MD EQ 0 OR GE 998


        (IF R ATTENDS RELIGIOUS SERVICES:)  Do you mostly attend a place of
        worship that is Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, or what?
        (IF R DOESN'T ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES:)  Regardless of whether you
        now attend any religious services do you ever think of yourself as
        part of a particular church or denomination?  (IF YES:) Do you
        consider yourself Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, or what?

        (PROTESTANTS:)
        (IF BAPTIST:) With which Baptist group is your church associated?  Is
        it the Southern Baptist Convention, the American Baptist Churches in
        the USA, the American Baptist Association, [1992-later: the National
        Baptist Convention U.S.A.,]an independent Baptist church or some other
        Baptist group?  (IF INDEPENDENT BAPTIST:) Are you affiliated with any
        larger Baptist group or is this strictly a local church?
        (IF LUTHERAN:) Is this church part of the Evangelical Lutheran Curch
        in America, the Missouri Synod, or some other Lutheran group?
        (IF METHODIST:) Is your church part of the United Methodist Church,
        African Methodist Episcopal, or some other Methodist group?
        (IF PRESBYTERIAN:) Is this the Presbyterian Church in the USA or some
        other Presbyterian group?
        (IF REFORMED:) Is this the Christian Reformed Church, the Reformed
        Church in America, or some other Reformed group?
        (IF BRETHREN:) Is this the Church of the Brethren, the Plymouth
        Brethren, or what?
        (IF CHRISTIAN OR JUST CHRISTIAN:) When you say "Christian" does that
        mean the denomination called the "Christian Church (Disciples of
        Christ)," or some other Christian denomination, or do you mean to say
        "I am just a Christian?"
        (IF CHURCH OR CHURCHES OF CHRIST:) Is this the Church of Christ or
        United Church of Christ?
        (IF CHURCH OF GOD:) Is this the Church of God of Anderson Indiana, the
        Church of God of Cleveland Tennessee, the Church of God in Christ, or
        some other Church of God?
        (IF HOLINESS OR PENTECOSTAL:) What kind of church is that?  What is it
        called exactly?  Is that part of a larger church or denomination? What
        is that church called?

        (IF OTHER:) What is it called exactly?  Is that church part of a
        denomination?  Is that group Christian?

        (IF JEWISH:) (IF R ATTENDS JEWISH RELIGIOUS SERVICES:) Do you usually
        attend a synagogue or temple that is Orothodox, Conservative, Reform
        or what?  (IF R DOES NOT ATTEND RELIGIOUS SERVICES BUT CONSIDERS SELF
        JEWISH:) Do you consider yourself Orthodox, Conservative, Reform or
        what?

        RELIGION [2]
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        USE WEIGHT VARIABLE VCF0009/VCF0009A/VCF0009B.

        SEE APPENDIX "RELIGION 1990 AND LATER"
        SEE ALSO:   VCF0129.

        Beginning in 1990, the full set of religion codes (in VCF0129 for
        1960-1988) 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 provides the 'new'
        set of full religion codes, and appendix "RELIGION 1990 AND LATER"
        includes 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.

        Questions about religious affiliation were preceded by the filter
        question, 'Lots of things come up that keep people from attending
        religous services even if they want to.  Thinking about your life
        these days, do you ever attend religious services, apart from
        occasional weddings, baptisms or funerals?'   Following this filter
        variable, the text of the main religious affiliation question differs
        according to how R answered the filter variable.

        In 1992, this set of questions was not part of the short-form
        questionnaire; for short-form 'panel' cases, however, 1990 study data
        were incorporated into the 1992 religion summary variable.

        In 1994, 1992 data were incorporated for 'panel' cases.

        Note that in 1992 several changes were made:  codes 127 and 133 have
        been combined into code 127 [no 1992 code 133]; code 102 has been
        moved to become code 306 [no 1992 code 102]; and codes 267 and 261
        have been added (new).

        In 1994, the following codes were added: 111,186,234,262.
        In 1996, code 240 was added.
        In 1998, codes 263,264,524,725,726,727 were added.
        In 2000, codes 750,795 added.

           10-790.  Religion as coded
           800.     Agnostics
           801.     Atheists
           997.     Other

           998.     None; no preference; don't know preference; DK; refused
           999.     NA; short-form 'new' cross-section (1992)
           000.     INAP, question not used

        1990:  546           1992:  3850           1994:  1122
        1996:  960602        1998:  980569         2000:  000904


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