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Confidence in organized religion or in churches and religious organizations; the scales differ (7-point and 5-point).
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Latest: 30% answered “High confidence” in GSS: Confidence in churches and religious organizations, 2018.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 11 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Confidence in churches and religious organizations.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
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| GSS: Confidence in churches and religious organizations | Confidence in churches and religious organizations How much confidence do you have in. . .
D. Churches and religious organizations Caveat: 5-point labeled scale; 'churches and religious organizations' wording; cutpoints approximate | similar | Complete confidence → High confidence; A great deal of confidence → High confidence; Some confidence → Moderate confidence; Very little confidence → Low or no confidence; No confidence at all → Low or no confidence |
| GSS: Confidence in organized religion, 7-point scale | Confidence in organized religion, 7-point scale I am going to name some institutions in this country. Some people have complete confidence in the people running these institutions. Suppose these people are at one end of the scale at point number 1. Other people have no confidence at all in the people running these institutions. Suppose these people are at the other end, at point 7. And, of course, other people have opinions somewhere in between at point 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. Where would you place yourself on this scale for . . .
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C. Organized religion Caveat: 7-point scale about people running organized religion; collapsed to 3 groups | similar | Complete confidence → High confidence; 2 → High confidence; 3 → Moderate confidence; 4 → Moderate confidence; 5 → Moderate confidence; 6 → Low or no confidence; No confidence → Low or no confidence |
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Confidence in churches and religious organizations.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.