VAR CF0129 RELIGION OF R(4)

VAR CF0129    RELIGION OF R(4)
              COLUMNS 149-151
              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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