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A. When it comes to your religious identity, would you say you are a fundamentalist, evangelical, mainline, or liberal Protestant or do none of these describe you?
Protestant religious identity · Asked in 2 waves, 1996–1998 · 2,477 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
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 | Fundamentalist | Evangelical | Mainline | Liberal | None | Other | n | MoE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All respondents |
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 1998 | 1998-02-01 to 1998-06-19 | face to face | 2,832 | 813 |
| General Social Survey 1996 | 1996-02-01 to 1996-05-25 | face to face | 2,904 | 1,664 |
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.
| 11% |
| 14% |
| 20% |
| 16% |
| 36% |
| 3% |
| 1664 |
| ±3 |
| Less than high school | 10% | 10% | 15% | 14% | 46% | 4% | 283 | ±6 |
| High school | 10% | 14% | 18% | 16% | 40% | 3% | 559 | ±5 |
| Some college | 14% | 15% | 19% | 16% | 33% | 3% | 473 | ±5 |
| Bachelor's | 12% | 13% | 31% | 18% | 24% | 2% | 242 | ±7 |
| Postgraduate | 10% | 22% | 23% | 21% | 22% | 3% | 106 | ±11 |
General Social Survey 1996 · 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.