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2.) STATE: State 3.) GENDER: Gender 7.) JEWR: ONLY THOSE RESPONDENTS RAISED JEWISH WERE ASKED: Were you raised [ORTHODOX, CONSERVATIVE, REFORM]? 10.) JEW: ASKED RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE NOW JUDAISM/JEWISH WERE ASKED: Is that [ORTHODOX, CONSERVATIVE, REFORM]? 11.) OREL: Have you ever been anything other than (preference indicated in RELIGR AND RELIG)? 18.) RELSTRG: Would you call yourself strong or not very strong (current religious preference provided in RELIG)? 19.) CLRELIG: Feel pretty close to other in general, or don't feel much closer to them than to other people 20.) CHURCH: Are you a member of a church/synagogue? 21.) CONGIMPT: How important would you say this particular congregation is in your life? -- Would you say it is 22.) MEMGROW: Is this congregation growing in membership, or is it declining? 23.) CHRURAL: Is the church/synagogue in downtown of a city, in a suburb, in a small town, a rural area, or where? 24.) ATTEND: How often do you attend religious services? 25.) ATTEND10: When you were young, 8 or 10 years old, how often did you attend Sunday school or church/synagogue? 26.) ATTEND20: When you were older, early 20s, say. How often did you attend Sunday school or church/synagogue? 27.) DROP: 2 yr or more when you did not attend church/synagogue, apart from wedding, funeral & special holiday 29.) RETURN: ASKED NO ATTEND 2YEARS OR MORE. -- Did you ever start attending church/synagogue again? 31.) ACTIVECH: You are more involved church/synagogue now than 5 yrs ago, less invovled, or about same 32.) CHILDREN: To be sure we have a good cross section of respondents. Do you have any children? 34.) MARRIED: Are you currently [MARRIED, WIDOWED, DIVORCED, SEPARATED, NEVER MARRIED]? 36.) PBORN: ASKED RESPONDENTS THAT WERE BORN IN THE U.S.: Were both your parents born in this country? 42.) CLETHNIC: In general, feel close to others from same national background or dont feel closer than to others 55.) PRAY: Now a few questions of a more personal, religious sort -- About how often do you pray? 56.) READBIBL: Within the last year, have you, yourself, read any part of the Bible at home? 57.) GRACE: At your meals at home, does anyone say grace or give thanks to God aloud? 58.) BRNAGAIN: "Born again" or had "born again" experience, turn point in life you commit yourself to Christ 59.) CLRELATV: Are you very close to many of them, to a few of them, or hardly any of them? 60.) CLNGHBOR: How about people who live in your neighborhood? Are you close to 61.) CLSCHOOL: What about people grew up with & went to school with? Still feel close to 62.) CLWORK: How about people you work with? Do you feel very close to many, a few, or hardly any of them? 63.) CLCHURCH: How about people you know at your church/synagogue? How many of them do you feel very close to 64.) VOLORGS: Outside your church, are you active in any clubs or organizations? 69.) FRNDNET: Close friends, relatives, co-workers, friends school & church. -- How many of them know each other? 70.) NGHBNET: Close friends, relatives, co-workers, friends school/church -- How many of them live in local area 71.) ETHNCNET: Close friend,relative,co-worker,friend school/church How many same national/ethnic background as you 72.) FRATTEND: Close friend,relative,co-worker,friend school/church- How many attend church/synagogue regular basis 73.) CHRCHNET: Close friend, relative,co-worker,friend school/church- Attend your church/synagogue on regular basis 74.) REGIONID: Would you say that you're a (Southerner; Westerner; Midwesterner; New Englander) or not? 75.) CLREGION: Feel close to (South, West, Midwestern; New Englanders) in general, or dont feel closer than others 76.) CHSPIRIT: Agree/disagree--Most churches and synagogues today have lost the real spiritual part of religion. 77.) CHOPEN: Agree or disagree -- Most religious congregations are warm and accepting toward outsiders. 78.) CHMORAL: The rules about morality preached by churches and synagogues today are just too restrictive. 79.) RELINDIV: An individual should arrive at his/her own religious beliefs, independent of any church/synagogue 80.) SCIREL: Do you tend to agree or disagree -- Science and religion will always be in conflict. 81.) BIBLIT: Agree/disagree -- The bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. 82.) CONSCIEN: Good Christian/Jew should follow his/her conscience, even if going against organized religion teach 83.) BELONGCH: Agree/disagree -- Being a church member is an important way to become established in a community. 84.) IDEOLOGY: Here are a few questions about politics. -- Would you describe your overall political views as 85.) PRESVOTE: In the last election, which presidential candidate did you vote for, or didn't you vote? 86.) UNIONS: Do you think labor unions in this country have too much power or too little power? 87.) FEDGOV: Should the federal government spend more money on welfare, or should it spend less? 88.) DEFENSE: Should the federal government spend more on defense, or should it spend less? 89.) ENVIRON: Should the federal government spend more or less on protecting the environment? 90.) ETERLIFE: Here are some more questions about religion. -- Do you believe in eternal life? 91.) REINCARN: Do you believe in reincarnation that is, we've had previous lives? 92.) DEVIL: Here are some more questions about religion. -- Do you believe in the Devil that is, Satan? 93.) ASTROLOG: Questions about religion. -- Do you believe in astrology that is, that the stars affect our destiny? 94.) GHOSTS: Here are some more questions about religion. -- Do you believe in ghosts? 95.) MEDITATE: Practice techniques, taught by Transcendental Meditation, Zen, the Divine Light Mission, or others 96.) SHRELFAM: Do most members of your family, or the people you live with, share your views about religion? 97.) SHRELOTH: People w/ everyt day, people outside your family: Do most of them share your views about religion? 98.) RELIMPRT: How important would you say religion generally is in your own life? 99.) CHCOMMUN: Church/synagogue place worship in community w/ friends, or place to be alone with God? 100.) CHINHERT: Church passed from generation to generation, or something needs to be freely chosen by each person 101.) CHCHANGE: Think of church, do you think of something always changing, or something that changes very little 102.) CHESSENT: You believe a person can be a good Christian or Jew if he or she doesn't attend church or synagogue? 103.) DOUBT: Can someone be a good Christian or Jew if he or she has doubts whether God exists? 104.) CAREER: Agree/disagree -- Commitment to a meaningful career is one of the most important things in life. 105.) TRADIT: People who question the old and accepted ways of doing things usually just end up causing trouble. 106.) GDWITHIN: Agree or disagree-- People have God within them, so churches aren't really necessary. 107.) WORK2ND: Relationships with family and friends are more important than what one does in one's work. 108.) ABORT: A married woman who doesn't want any more children should be able to obtain a legal abortion. 109.) PMARSEX: Sex relations before marriage always morally wrong, usually morally wrong or sometimes morally wrong 110.) HOMOSEX: Homosexual relations are always morally wrong, ususally morally wrong, sometimes morally wrong? 111.) DEATHPEN: Death penalty Is it always morally wrong, usually morally wrong, or only sometimes morally wrong? 112.) CHEATTAX: Cheat on your taxes is always morally wrong, usually morally wrong or only sometimes morally wrong 113.) ABORTION: Abortion is it always morally wrong, usually morally wrong, or only sometimes morally wrong? 114.) INSURECT: Overthowing govt is always morally wrong, usually morally wrong, or only sometimes morally wrong? 115.) MAREQUAL: Equality in marriage is a good thing, but, husband ought to have main say-so in family matters 116.) LOCNEWS: Despite newspaper & TV coverage national & international rarely seem as interesting as own community 117.) LOCROOTS: Greater respect people well-established in hometown than people who widely known, but no local roots 118.) WOMENJOB: Job outside home is good for a married woman because it gives her more chance to develop as a person 119.) CAREER2: People owe to self to be the best they can in their job or career, even if have less time for others 120.) WOMENORD: I support the ordination of women; that is, I think women should be allowed to be ministers. 121.) LIVEUS: WANT TO REMAIN WITHIN THE SAME STATE: If you could live anywhere you wanted, where would you live? 124.) FOLLOWUP: We may want to follow up these questions sometime in the future. If we do, may we contact you again?

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