Re-contact Strategy, 2008

In Wave 1 of 2006, questions regarding the respondent's congregation were omitted if the respondent considered oneself currently not involved in, affiliated with, or a member of a religious congregation, as determined by variable ca_1. However, subsequent analysis showed that many of these persons did attend worship services frequently. In 2008, a re-contact strategy attempted to reach the 522 respondents who, in 2006, were not involved in, affiliated with, or a member of a religious congregation but attended religious worship services at least several times a year. While attempting to reach all 522 respondents, 151 were interviewed by telephone or online survey in Sept.-Oct., 2008. Their responses were incorporated into the Wave 1 data set. Those cases are flagged with the variable i_1.

The following variables have their Wave 1 missing values replaced with available data from the 2008 re-contact strategy for the 151 cases flagged by i_1.