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What is your religious preference? Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion? A. What specific denomination is that, if any? As of 2024, DENOM has been recoded to only account for seven broad denomination categories. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of DENOM. The original DENOM containing data 1972 to 2022 has been renamed DENOM_7222.
Specific religious denomination, detailed (1972-2022) · Asked in 34 waves, 1972–2022 · 41,496 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Before 1984 answers were coded only to broad families ('baptist, don't know which', 'methodist, don't know which'), so the detailed denominations first appear in 1984.
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2022 | 2022-05-08 to 2023-01-08 | mixed | 3,544 | 1,534 |
| General Social Survey 2021 | 2020-12-03 to 2021-05-02 | web | 4,032 | 1,789 |
| General Social Survey 2018 | 2018-04-12 to 2018-11-10 | face to face | 2,348 | 1,185 |
| General Social Survey 2016 | 2016-04-05 to 2016-11-19 | face to face | 2,867 | 1,435 |
| General Social Survey 2014 | 2014-03-31 to 2014-10-13 | face to face | 2,538 | 1,274 |
| General Social Survey 2012 | 2012-03-20 to 2012-09-05 | face to face | 1,974 | 1,039 |
| General Social Survey 2010 | 2010-03-15 to 2010-08-12 | face to face | 2,044 | 1,075 |
| General Social Survey 2008 | 2008-04-17 to 2008-09-13 | face to face | 2,023 | 1,116 |
| General Social Survey 2006 | 2006-03-07 to 2006-08-07 | face to face | 4,510 | 2,456 |
| General Social Survey 2004 |
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
Shares of people who gave an answer. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.
| Group | American baptist association | American baptist churches in the u.s.a. | National baptist convention of america | National baptist convention u.s.a., inc. | Southern baptist convention | Other baptist churches | Baptist, don't know which | African methodist episcopal church | African methodist episcopal zion church | United methodist church | Other methodist churches | Methodist, don't know which | American lutheran church | Lutheran church in america | Lutheran church - missouri synod | Wisconsin evangelical lutheran synod | Other lutheran churches | Evangelical lutheran | Lutheran, don't know which | Presbyterian church in the u.s. | United presbyterian church in the u.s.a. | Other presbyterian churches | Presbyterian, merged | Presbyterian, don't know which | Episcopal church | Other, specify | No denomination or non-denominational church | n | MoE | |
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General Social Survey 2022 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). 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.
| 2004-08-18 to 2005-01-04 |
| face to face |
| 2,812 |
| 1,573 |
| General Social Survey 2002 | 2002-02-06 to 2002-06-26 | face to face | 2,765 | 1,540 |
| General Social Survey 2000 | 2000-02-01 to 2000-06-25 | face to face | 2,817 | 1,563 |
| General Social Survey 1998 | 1998-02-01 to 1998-06-19 | face to face | 2,832 | 1,587 |
| General Social Survey 1996 | 1996-02-01 to 1996-05-25 | face to face | 2,904 | 1,668 |
| General Social Survey 1994 | 1994-01-04 to 1994-06-29 | face to face | 2,992 | 1,785 |
| General Social Survey 1993 | 1993-02-05 to 1993-04-26 | face to face | 1,606 | 1,034 |
| General Social Survey 1991 | 1991-02-09 to 1991-05-06 | face to face | 1,517 | 968 |
| General Social Survey 1990 | 1990-02-06 to 1990-04-22 | face to face | 1,372 | 867 |
| General Social Survey 1989 | 1989-02-04 to 1989-05-01 | face to face | 1,537 | 974 |
| General Social Survey 1988 | 1988-02-12 to 1988-04-26 | face to face | 1,481 | 907 |
| General Social Survey 1987 | 1987-01-31 to 1987-04-28 | face to face | 1,819 | 1,261 |
| General Social Survey 1986 | 1986-02-14 to 1986-04-24 | face to face | 1,470 | 924 |
| General Social Survey 1985 | 1985-02-09 to 1985-04-23 | face to face | 1,534 | 960 |
| General Social Survey 1984 | 1984-02-06 to 1984-04-20 | face to face | 1,473 | 944 |
| General Social Survey 1983 | 1983-02-23 to 1983-04-27 | face to face | 1,599 | 974 |
| General Social Survey 1982 | 1982-02-11 to 1982-04-27 | face to face | 1,860 | 1,270 |
| General Social Survey 1980 | 1980-01-18 to 1980-05-16 | face to face | 1,468 | 939 |
| General Social Survey 1978 | 1978-02-13 to 1978-04-29 | face to face | 1,532 | 983 |
| General Social Survey 1977 | 1977-02-09 to 1977-04-24 | face to face | 1,530 | 1,011 |
| General Social Survey 1976 | 1976-02-28 to 1976-05-29 | face to face | 1,499 | 953 |
| General Social Survey 1975 | 1975-02-28 to 1975-05-15 | face to face | 1,490 | 977 |
| General Social Survey 1974 | 1974 | face to face | 1,484 | 955 |
| General Social Survey 1973 | 1973 | face to face | 1,504 | 940 |
| General Social Survey 1972 | 1972 | face to face | 1,613 | 1,036 |
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