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People practice their religion in different ways. Outside of attending religious services, how often do you pray?
Frequency of prayer outside religious services · Asked in 4 waves, 2018–2024 · 240,519 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Wording from the year's CES guide.
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Several times a day | Once a day | A few times a week | Once a week | A few times a month | Seldom |
|---|
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperative Election Study 2024 | 2024-10-01 to 2024-12-09 | web | 60,000 | 59,976 |
| Cooperative Election Study 2022 | 2022-09-29 to 2022-12-15 | web | 60,000 | 59,960 |
| Cooperative Election Study 2020 | 2020-09-29 to 2020-12-14 | web | 61,000 | 60,951 |
| Cooperative Congressional Election Study 2018 | 2018-09-27 to 2018-11-05 | web | 60,000 | 59,632 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Never |
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| n |
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| MoE |
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| All respondents | 28% | 14% | 12% | 3% | 6% | 15% | 22% | 59976 | ±0.7 | |
| Men | 23% | 13% | 12% | 3% | 7% | 17% | 26% | 27444 | ±1 | |
| Women | 33% | 15% | 12% | 3% | 6% | 13% | 18% | 31978 | ±0.9 |
Cooperative Election Study 2024 · US adults 18+ (YouGov opt-in panels, sample-matched to an ACS frame and weighted). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.