American National Election Studies, Cumulative Data File, 1948-2004

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VCF0131 Would you say you go to church regularly, often, seldom or never?   0) Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW   1) Regularly   2) Often   4) Seldom   5) Never   7) No religious preference (1960-1968)   9) NA

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	1805	13.4%	13.4%	-1.25
Regularly	4896	36.2%	49.6%	-.68
Often	2009	14.9%	64.4%	-.12
Seldom	3757	27.8%	92.2%	1
Never	774	5.7%	97.9%	1.56
No religious preference (1960-1968)	179	1.3%	99.3%	2.69
NA	99	.7%	100%	3.81

Variable Comparisons

Gender Race Age Education Religion Church attendance

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	12.8% 773	12.6% 932	12.7% 1705
Regularly	31.7% 1905	40.4% 2991	36.5% 4896
Often	13.9% 836	15.8% 1173	15.0% 2009
Seldom	31.9% 1922	24.8% 1835	28.0% 3757
Never	6.8% 409	4.9% 365	5.8% 774
No religious preference (1960-1968)	2.1% 129	0.7% 50	1.3% 179
NA	0.7% 42	0.8% 57	0.7% 99
TOTAL	100.0% 6016	100.0% 7403	13419

Race (I-RACE)

	White	Black	Asian	Native American	Hispanic	Other	TOTAL
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	11.4% 1353	13.8% 172	100.0% 29	100.0% 26	100.0% 89	19.3% 22	12.6% 1691
Regularly	36.8% 4382	38.9% 485	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	25.4% 29	36.5% 4896
Often	14.9% 1778	17.4% 217	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	12.3% 14	15.0% 2009
Seldom	28.6% 3408	25.0% 311	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	32.5% 37	28.0% 3756
Never	6.2% 733	2.6% 33	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	7.0% 8	5.8% 774
No religious preference (1960-1968)	1.4% 162	1.0% 13	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	3.5% 4	1.3% 179
NA	0.7% 83	1.2% 15	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.7% 98
TOTAL	100.0% 11899	100.0% 1246	100.0% 29	100.0% 26	100.0% 89	100.0% 114	13403

Age (I-AGE)

	17-24	25-34	35-44	45-54	55-64	65 and older	TOTAL
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	9.8% 78	9.1% 245	12.4% 387	13.4% 355	14.6% 288	16.0% 332	12.6% 1685
Regularly	29.6% 237	36.6% 986	39.1% 1223	35.5% 944	37.3% 737	35.9% 745	36.5% 4872
Often	17.1% 137	15.5% 418	16.1% 503	14.6% 389	14.0% 277	13.1% 272	15.0% 1996
Seldom	33.6% 269	31.7% 852	26.6% 833	29.2% 775	26.1% 516	23.6% 490	28.0% 3735
Never	7.0% 56	4.9% 131	3.9% 122	5.6% 150	6.0% 118	9.2% 191	5.8% 768
No religious preference (1960-1968)	2.5% 20	1.6% 43	1.2% 38	1.1% 28	1.2% 24	1.2% 25	1.3% 178
NA	0.4% 3	0.6% 16	0.8% 25	0.6% 17	0.9% 18	1.0% 20	0.7% 99
TOTAL	100.0% 800	100.0% 2691	100.0% 3131	100.0% 2658	100.0% 1978	100.0% 2075	13333

Education (I-EDUC)

	Grade school or less (0-8 grades)	High school (12 grades or fewer)	Some college (13 grades or more but no degree)	College or advanced degree	TOTAL
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	3.2% 113	8.6% 536	26.5% 487	32.5% 545	12.6% 1681
Regularly	37.1% 1323	38.1% 2382	34.0% 626	32.7% 549	36.6% 4880
Often	16.7% 597	16.0% 1000	13.1% 241	9.6% 161	15.0% 1999
Seldom	31.9% 1139	30.2% 1890	21.3% 391	18.9% 318	28.0% 3738
Never	8.9% 316	5.4% 340	3.3% 60	3.3% 55	5.8% 771
No religious preference (1960-1968)	1.3% 48	1.0% 63	1.5% 27	2.3% 39	1.3% 177
NA	0.9% 32	0.8% 47	0.4% 7	0.7% 12	0.7% 98
TOTAL	100.0% 3568	100.0% 6258	100.0% 1839	100.0% 1679	13344

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other and none (also includes don't know preference)	TOTAL
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	9.0% 843	13.5% 393	9.3% 38	51.3% 306	11.9% 1580
Regularly	33.4% 3125	57.6% 1683	9.5% 39	7.6% 45	36.8% 4892
Often	16.8% 1567	11.5% 337	21.0% 86	3.0% 18	15.1% 2008
Seldom	33.1% 3092	14.2% 416	50.0% 205	6.5% 39	28.3% 3752
Never	6.9% 648	2.6% 77	8.8% 36	1.3% 8	5.8% 769
No religious preference (1960-1968)	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	30.0% 179	1.3% 179
NA	0.8% 77	0.5% 15	1.5% 6	0.2% 1	0.7% 99
TOTAL	100.0% 9352	100.0% 2921	100.0% 410	100.0% 596	13279

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Every week	Almost every week (no cases in 1970)	Once or twice a month	A few times a year	Never	No religious preference (1970-1988)	TOTAL
Religion refused/NA; no Pre IW; no Post IW	100.0% 414	100.0% 214	100.0% 241	100.0% 182	100.0% 446	0.00% 0	100.0% 1497
Regularly	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0
Often	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0
Seldom	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0
Never	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0
No religious preference (1960-1968)	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0
NA	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.00% 0	0.0% 0
TOTAL	100.0% 414	100.0% 214	100.0% 241	100.0% 182	100.0% 446	100.0% 0	1497