Feel Guided by God

• Introduction
• Patterns

Feel Guided by God (Demographic Patterns)

You may experience the following in your daily life, if so how often? I feel guided by God in the midst of daily activities.

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Feel Guided by God by Gender (General Social Survey, 2004)

	MALE	FEMALE	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	10.1% 63	22.6% 162	16.8% 225
EVERY DAY	22.1% 138	27.7% 198	25.1% 336
MOST DAYS	11.5% 72	15.2% 109	13.5% 181
SOME DAYS	16.5% 103	10.9% 78	13.5% 181
ONCE WHILE	15.2% 95	11.7% 84	13.4% 179
NEVER	22.4% 140	10.6% 76	16.1% 216
DON’T KNOW	0.8% 5	0.1% 1	0.4% 6
NO ANSWER	1.3% 8	1.1% 8	1.2% 16
Missing	656	816	1472
TOTAL	100% 624	100% 716	1340

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Feel Guided by God by Race (General Social Survey, 2004)

	WHITE	BLACK	OTHER	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	14.0% 151	34.4% 55	18.3% 19	16.8% 225
EVERY DAY	24.1% 259	31.9% 51	25.0% 26	25.1% 336
MOST DAYS	13.4% 144	15.0% 24	12.5% 13	13.5% 181
SOME DAYS	14.8% 159	5.6% 9	12.5% 13	13.5% 181
ONCE WHILE	14.4% 155	6.3% 10	13.5% 14	13.4% 179
NEVER	17.8% 191	5.0% 8	16.3% 17	16.1% 216
DON’T KNOW	0.6% 6	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.4% 6
NO ANSWER	1.0% 11	1.9% 3	1.9% 2	1.2% 16
Missing	1158	217	97	1472
TOTAL	100% 1076	100% 160	100% 104	1340

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Feel Guided by God by Religion (General Social Survey, 2004)

	PROTESTANT	CATHOLIC	OTHER	NONE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	20.2% 144	14.1% 45	20.4% 21	7.5% 15	0	16.8% 225
EVERY DAY	29.6% 211	28.1% 90	20.4% 21	7.0% 14	0	25.1% 336
MOST DAYS	14.6% 104	15.9% 51	9.7% 10	7.5% 15	1	13.5% 180
SOME DAYS	12.2% 87	17.2% 55	20.4% 21	9.0% 18	0	13.5% 181
ONCE WHILE	13.4% 96	12.8% 41	9.7% 10	16.1% 32	0	13.4% 179
NEVER	8.7% 62	10.3% 33	16.5% 17	51.8% 103	1	16.1% 215
DON’T KNOW	0.1% 1	1.3% 4	1.0% 1	0.0% 0	0	0.4% 6
NO ANSWER	1.3% 9	0.3% 1	1.9% 2	1.0% 2	2	1.0% 14
Missing	769	336	155	204	8	1472
TOTAL	100% 714	100% 320	100% 103	100% 199	12	1336

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Feel Guided by God by Age (General Social Survey, 2004)

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	13.1% 38	16.1% 64	17.7% 77	21.7% 46	0	16.8% 225
EVERY DAY	20.6% 60	26.2% 104	26.1% 114	27.4% 58	0	25.1% 336
MOST DAYS	14.4% 42	12.8% 51	13.8% 60	13.2% 28	0	13.5% 181
SOME DAYS	18.6% 54	13.6% 54	12.2% 53	9.0% 19	1	13.5% 180
ONCE WHILE	15.5% 45	13.6% 54	12.8% 56	11.3% 24	0	13.4% 179
NEVER	16.8% 49	15.9% 63	16.1% 70	15.1% 32	2	16.0% 214
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.8% 3	0.5% 2	0.5% 1	0	0.4% 6
NO ANSWER	1.0% 3	1.0% 4	0.9% 4	1.9% 4	1	1.1% 15
Missing	305	413	531	218	5	1472
TOTAL	100% 291	100% 397	100% 436	100% 212	9	1336

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Feel Guided by God by Church attendance (General Social Survey, 2004)

	NEVER	< 1 A MNTH	< 1 A WEEK	WEEKLY +	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	5.2% 12	9.9% 45	15.1% 43	34.0% 125	0	16.8% 225
EVERY DAY	10.9% 25	17.4% 79	30.3% 86	39.7% 146	0	25.1% 336
MOST DAYS	10.4% 24	12.8% 58	18.3% 52	12.8% 47	0	13.5% 181
SOME DAYS	9.1% 21	17.6% 80	18.3% 52	7.6% 28	0	13.5% 181
ONCE WHILE	13.5% 31	22.7% 103	10.9% 31	3.8% 14	0	13.4% 179
NEVER	49.6% 114	17.4% 79	6.3% 18	1.1% 4	1	16.1% 215
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	1.1% 5	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0	0.4% 6
NO ANSWER	1.3% 3	1.1% 5	0.4% 1	1.1% 4	3	1.0% 13
Missing	241	511	331	382	7	1472
TOTAL	100% 230	100% 454	100% 284	100% 368	11	1336

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Feel Guided by God by Political ideology (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LIBERAL	MODERATE	CONSERV	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	13.5% 43	16.7% 83	17.6% 87	12	16.3% 213
EVERY DAY	22.9% 73	25.4% 126	27.4% 135	2	25.5% 334
MOST DAYS	10.3% 33	14.5% 72	15.0% 74	2	13.7% 179
SOME DAYS	10.3% 33	14.3% 71	15.0% 74	3	13.6% 178
ONCE WHILE	14.1% 45	13.7% 68	12.2% 60	6	13.2% 173
NEVER	27.3% 87	14.5% 72	11.0% 54	3	16.3% 213
DON’T KNOW	0.3% 1	0.2% 1	0.6% 3	1	0.4% 5
NO ANSWER	1.3% 4	0.8% 4	1.2% 6	2	1.1% 14
Missing	0	0	0	1472	1472
TOTAL	100% 319	100% 497	100% 493	1503	1309

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Feel Guided by God by Education (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LESS HS	HS DEGREE	JR COLL	BA DEGREE	GRAD DEGRE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	23.7% 41	16.6% 116	17.0% 19	14.5% 32	11.8% 16	1	16.7% 224
EVERY DAY	30.6% 53	25.8% 180	29.5% 33	20.0% 44	19.1% 26	0	25.1% 336
MOST DAYS	12.7% 22	14.5% 101	12.5% 14	13.2% 29	11.0% 15	0	13.5% 181
SOME DAYS	7.5% 13	14.9% 104	13.4% 15	11.8% 26	16.9% 23	0	13.5% 181
ONCE WHILE	12.1% 21	12.3% 86	17.0% 19	14.5% 32	15.4% 21	0	13.4% 179
NEVER	12.7% 22	14.5% 101	8.0% 9	22.3% 49	25.7% 35	0	16.1% 216
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.7% 5	0.9% 1	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.4% 6
NO ANSWER	0.6% 1	0.7% 5	1.8% 2	3.6% 8	0.0% 0	0	1.2% 16
Missing	191	737	112	287	145	0	1472
TOTAL	100% 173	100% 698	100% 112	100% 220	100% 136	1	1339

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Notes

General Social Survey, 2004: General Social Survey: Since 1972, the National Opinion Research Center has conducted a nationwide survey of a random sample of U.S. citizens on a near-yearly basis—the General Social Survey (GSS). In addition to gathering detailed demographic information on respondents, the GSS gathers opinions on a wide variety of topics, such as the role of government in public life, controversial issues such as abortion, confidence in public institutions and a host of others. Of course, respondents are unlikely to spend five hours completing a survey so in order to gather data on a broad range of issues the GSS has adopted the practice of rotating groups of questions into and out of the survey in different years.

* The list that follows includes items you may or may not experience. Please consider if and how often you have these experiences, and try to disregard whether you feel you should or should not have them. A number of items use the word - God. - If this word is not a comfortable one, please substitute another idea that calls to mind the divine or holy for you. "You may experience the following in your daily life, if so how often." 1009. I feel guided by God in the midst of daily activities.