What is your (SPOUSE'S) religious preference? Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion? A. What specific denomination is that, if any?
As of 2024, SPDEN has been recoded to only account for seven broad denomination categories. This has been retroactively applied to all previous years of SPDEN. The original SPDEN containing data 1973 to 2022 has been renamed SPDEN_7322.
What is your spouse's specific religious denomination?
Spouse's religious denomination, detailed 1973-2022 · Asked in 29 waves, 1973–2022 · 16,943 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.
American baptist associationAmerican baptist churches in the u.s.a.National baptist convention of americaNational baptist convention u.s.a., inc.
Answers as the source codes them
American baptist associationAmerican baptist churches in the u.s.a.National baptist convention of americaNational baptist convention u.s.a., inc.Southern baptist conventionOther baptist churchesBaptist, don't know whichAfrican methodist episcopal churchAfrican methodist episcopal zion churchUnited methodist churchOther methodist churchesMethodist, don't know whichAmerican lutheran churchLutheran church in americaLutheran church - missouri synodWisconsin evangelical lutheran synodOther lutheran churchesEvangelical lutheranLutheran, don't know whichPresbyterian church in the u.s.United presbyterian church in the u.s.a.Other presbyterian churchesPresbyterian, mergedPresbyterian, don't know whichEpiscopal churchOther, specifyNo denomination or non-denominational churchDon't know (non-answer)No answer (non-answer)Skipped on web (non-answer)
Dashed lines mark changes in how interviews were done, which can shift answers: 1. → web (2021).
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.
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
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
All respondents
3%
1%
0%
1%
10%
1%
12%
0%
–
5%
0%
2%
1%
0%
2%
0%
–
1%
3%
1%
0%
1%
1%
1%
4%
16%
33%
642
±6
18–29 †
Too few respondents
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
35
±23
30–44
0%
45–64
65+
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.