Feel Joy That Lifts

• Introduction
• Patterns

Feel Joy That Lifts (Demographic Patterns)

You may experience the following in your daily life, if so how often? During worship, or at other times when connecting to God, I feel joy which lifts me out of my daily concerns.

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Gender (General Social Survey, 2004)

	MALE	FEMALE	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	8.5% 53	17.9% 128	13.5% 181
EVERY DAY	17.5% 109	21.1% 151	19.4% 260
MOST DAYS	18.9% 118	21.9% 157	20.5% 275
SOME DAYS	16.5% 103	14.5% 104	15.4% 207
ONCE WHILE	15.5% 97	13.5% 97	14.5% 194
NEVER	20.7% 129	9.2% 66	14.6% 195
DON’T KNOW	1.0% 6	0.4% 3	0.7% 9
NO ANSWER	1.4% 9	1.4% 10	1.4% 19
Missing	656	816	1472
TOTAL	100% 624	100% 716	1340

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Race (General Social Survey, 2004)

	WHITE	BLACK	OTHER	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	10.8% 116	30.0% 48	16.3% 17	13.5% 181
EVERY DAY	18.8% 202	21.3% 34	23.1% 24	19.4% 260
MOST DAYS	20.4% 219	22.5% 36	19.2% 20	20.5% 275
SOME DAYS	16.6% 179	9.4% 15	12.5% 13	15.4% 207
ONCE WHILE	15.3% 165	8.1% 13	15.4% 16	14.5% 194
NEVER	16.1% 173	6.3% 10	11.5% 12	14.6% 195
DON’T KNOW	0.8% 9	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.7% 9
NO ANSWER	1.2% 13	2.5% 4	1.9% 2	1.4% 19
Missing	1158	217	97	1472
TOTAL	100% 1076	100% 160	100% 104	1340

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Religion (General Social Survey, 2004)

	PROTESTANT	CATHOLIC	OTHER	NONE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	15.8% 113	12.8% 41	16.5% 17	5.0% 10	0	13.5% 181
EVERY DAY	22.7% 162	20.0% 64	17.5% 18	8.0% 16	0	19.5% 260
MOST DAYS	23.1% 165	20.6% 66	23.3% 24	10.1% 20	0	20.6% 275
SOME DAYS	15.0% 107	20.3% 65	15.5% 16	9.5% 19	0	15.5% 207
ONCE WHILE	13.6% 97	14.7% 47	12.6% 13	18.6% 37	0	14.5% 194
NEVER	7.8% 56	10.0% 32	9.7% 10	47.7% 95	2	14.4% 193
DON’T KNOW	0.3% 2	1.3% 4	2.9% 3	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 9
NO ANSWER	1.7% 12	0.3% 1	1.9% 2	1.0% 2	2	1.3% 17
Missing	769	336	155	204	8	1472
TOTAL	100% 714	100% 320	100% 103	100% 199	12	1336

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Age (General Social Survey, 2004)

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	11.3% 33	13.4% 53	15.4% 67	13.2% 28	0	13.5% 181
EVERY DAY	14.4% 42	22.7% 90	19.5% 85	20.3% 43	0	19.5% 260
MOST DAYS	21.0% 61	19.6% 78	20.9% 91	20.8% 44	1	20.5% 274
SOME DAYS	18.2% 53	13.4% 53	15.8% 69	15.1% 32	0	15.5% 207
ONCE WHILE	17.2% 50	14.9% 59	12.2% 53	15.1% 32	0	14.5% 194
NEVER	16.8% 49	14.4% 57	14.2% 62	11.8% 25	2	14.4% 193
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.5% 2	0.9% 4	1.4% 3	0	0.7% 9
NO ANSWER	1.0% 3	1.3% 5	1.1% 5	2.4% 5	1	1.3% 18
Missing	305	413	531	218	5	1472
TOTAL	100% 291	100% 397	100% 436	100% 212	9	1336

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Church attendance (General Social Survey, 2004)

	NEVER	< 1 A MNTH	< 1 A WEEK	WEEKLY +	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	3.5% 8	7.9% 36	13.0% 37	27.2% 100	0	13.5% 181
EVERY DAY	7.8% 18	13.7% 62	21.5% 61	32.3% 119	0	19.5% 260
MOST DAYS	11.7% 27	19.2% 87	28.2% 80	22.0% 81	0	20.6% 275
SOME DAYS	12.6% 29	19.4% 88	18.3% 52	10.3% 38	0	15.5% 207
ONCE WHILE	16.1% 37	21.4% 97	13.0% 37	6.3% 23	0	14.5% 194
NEVER	45.2% 104	16.5% 75	4.2% 12	0.8% 3	1	14.5% 194
DON’T KNOW	0.9% 2	0.9% 4	1.1% 3	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 9
NO ANSWER	2.2% 5	1.1% 5	0.7% 2	1.1% 4	3	1.2% 16
Missing	241	511	331	382	7	1472
TOTAL	100% 230	100% 454	100% 284	100% 368	11	1336

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Political ideology (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LIBERAL	MODERATE	CONSERV	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	10.3% 33	14.1% 70	14.4% 71	7	13.3% 174
EVERY DAY	16.0% 51	20.1% 100	21.1% 104	5	19.5% 255
MOST DAYS	19.1% 61	20.1% 100	21.9% 108	6	20.6% 269
SOME DAYS	13.8% 44	14.9% 74	17.4% 86	3	15.6% 204
ONCE WHILE	16.6% 53	14.7% 73	13.2% 65	3	14.6% 191
NEVER	22.6% 72	14.5% 72	9.5% 47	4	14.6% 191
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.8% 4	0.8% 4	1	0.6% 8
NO ANSWER	1.6% 5	0.8% 4	1.6% 8	2	1.3% 17
Missing	0	0	0	1472	1472
TOTAL	100% 319	100% 497	100% 493	1503	1309

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Feel Joy That Lifts by Education (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LESS HS	HS DEGREE	JR COLL	BA DEGREE	GRAD DEGRE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	24.3% 42	12.3% 86	15.2% 17	10.5% 23	8.8% 12	1	13.4% 180
EVERY DAY	15.0% 26	22.9% 160	20.5% 23	16.8% 37	10.3% 14	0	19.4% 260
MOST DAYS	23.7% 41	19.6% 137	18.8% 21	20.5% 45	22.8% 31	0	20.5% 275
SOME DAYS	9.8% 17	16.0% 112	17.0% 19	16.8% 37	16.2% 22	0	15.5% 207
ONCE WHILE	10.4% 18	13.8% 96	14.3% 16	14.5% 32	23.5% 32	0	14.5% 194
NEVER	15.0% 26	13.6% 95	10.7% 12	16.8% 37	18.4% 25	0	14.6% 195
DON’T KNOW	1.2% 2	0.7% 5	0.9% 1	0.5% 1	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 9
NO ANSWER	0.6% 1	1.0% 7	2.7% 3	3.6% 8	0.0% 0	0	1.4% 19
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." 1006. During worship, or at other times when connecting with God, I feel joy which lifts me out of my daily concerns.