Desire to be Closer to God

• Introduction
• Patterns

Desire to be Closer to God (Demographic Patterns)

You may experience the following in your daily life, if so how often? I desire to be closer to God or in union with Him.

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Desire to be Closer to God by Gender (General Social Survey, 2004)

	MALE	FEMALE	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	12.5% 78	21.9% 157	17.5% 235
EVERY DAY	29.5% 184	36.3% 260	33.1% 444
MOST DAYS	14.3% 89	14.0% 100	14.1% 189
SOME DAYS	14.1% 88	10.2% 73	12.0% 161
ONCE WHILE	12.8% 80	8.2% 59	10.4% 139
NEVER	14.3% 89	7.7% 55	10.7% 144
DON’T KNOW	1.3% 8	0.4% 3	0.8% 11
NO ANSWER	1.3% 8	1.3% 9	1.3% 17
Missing	656	816	1472
TOTAL	100% 624	100% 716	1340

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Desire to be Closer to God by Race (General Social Survey, 2004)

	WHITE	BLACK	OTHER	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	14.9% 160	31.3% 50	24.0% 25	17.5% 235
EVERY DAY	33.0% 355	39.4% 63	25.0% 26	33.1% 444
MOST DAYS	14.0% 151	14.4% 23	14.4% 15	14.1% 189
SOME DAYS	12.5% 135	8.1% 13	12.5% 13	12.0% 161
ONCE WHILE	11.4% 123	2.5% 4	11.5% 12	10.4% 139
NEVER	12.2% 131	1.9% 3	9.6% 10	10.7% 144
DON’T KNOW	0.8% 9	0.6% 1	1.0% 1	0.8% 11
NO ANSWER	1.1% 12	1.9% 3	1.9% 2	1.3% 17
Missing	1158	217	97	1472
TOTAL	100% 1076	100% 160	100% 104	1340

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Desire to be Closer to God by Religion (General Social Survey, 2004)

	PROTESTANT	CATHOLIC	OTHER	NONE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	20.7% 148	13.8% 44	29.1% 30	6.5% 13	0	17.6% 235
EVERY DAY	39.5% 282	34.7% 111	22.3% 23	14.1% 28	0	33.2% 444
MOST DAYS	13.2% 94	17.8% 57	13.6% 14	12.1% 24	0	14.1% 189
SOME DAYS	12.6% 90	14.1% 45	8.7% 9	8.5% 17	0	12.1% 161
ONCE WHILE	7.6% 54	11.9% 38	8.7% 9	19.1% 38	0	10.4% 139
NEVER	4.5% 32	5.9% 19	14.6% 15	38.2% 76	2	10.6% 142
DON’T KNOW	0.7% 5	1.3% 4	1.0% 1	0.5% 1	0	0.8% 11
NO ANSWER	1.3% 9	0.6% 2	1.9% 2	1.0% 2	2	1.1% 15
Missing	769	336	155	204	8	1472
TOTAL	100% 714	100% 320	100% 103	100% 199	12	1336

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Desire to be Closer to God by Age (General Social Survey, 2004)

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	17.2% 50	18.1% 72	16.3% 71	19.8% 42	0	17.6% 235
EVERY DAY	26.8% 78	33.0% 131	34.4% 150	40.1% 85	0	33.2% 444
MOST DAYS	15.5% 45	15.1% 60	13.8% 60	11.3% 24	0	14.1% 189
SOME DAYS	16.8% 49	11.6% 46	11.9% 52	6.1% 13	1	12.0% 160
ONCE WHILE	10.7% 31	9.3% 37	11.5% 50	9.9% 21	0	10.4% 139
NEVER	12.0% 35	10.3% 41	10.3% 45	9.9% 21	2	10.6% 142
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	1.5% 6	0.7% 3	0.9% 2	0	0.8% 11
NO ANSWER	1.0% 3	1.0% 4	1.1% 5	1.9% 4	1	1.2% 16
Missing	305	413	531	218	5	1472
TOTAL	100% 291	100% 397	100% 436	100% 212	9	1336

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Desire to be Closer to God by Church attendance (General Social Survey, 2004)

	NEVER	< 1 A MNTH	< 1 A WEEK	WEEKLY +	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	6.5% 15	10.1% 46	17.3% 49	34.0% 125	0	17.6% 235
EVERY DAY	17.0% 39	24.4% 111	41.9% 119	47.6% 175	0	33.2% 444
MOST DAYS	9.6% 22	16.1% 73	20.1% 57	10.1% 37	0	14.1% 189
SOME DAYS	9.1% 21	20.5% 93	10.9% 31	4.3% 16	0	12.1% 161
ONCE WHILE	21.3% 49	15.2% 69	5.3% 15	1.6% 6	0	10.4% 139
NEVER	34.3% 79	11.2% 51	3.2% 9	1.1% 4	1	10.7% 143
DON’T KNOW	0.9% 2	1.1% 5	1.1% 3	0.3% 1	0	0.8% 11
NO ANSWER	1.3% 3	1.3% 6	0.4% 1	1.1% 4	3	1.0% 14
Missing	241	511	331	382	7	1472
TOTAL	100% 230	100% 454	100% 284	100% 368	11	1336

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Desire to be Closer to God by Political ideology (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LIBERAL	MODERATE	CONSERV	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	14.1% 45	17.7% 88	18.9% 93	9	17.3% 226
EVERY DAY	28.5% 91	32.4% 161	37.5% 185	7	33.4% 437
MOST DAYS	10.7% 34	16.3% 81	14.4% 71	3	14.2% 186
SOME DAYS	11.9% 38	11.5% 57	12.8% 63	3	12.1% 158
ONCE WHILE	14.7% 47	10.3% 51	7.7% 38	3	10.4% 136
NEVER	17.9% 57	10.5% 52	6.5% 32	3	10.8% 141
DON’T KNOW	0.9% 3	0.4% 2	1.0% 5	1	0.8% 10
NO ANSWER	1.3% 4	1.0% 5	1.2% 6	2	1.1% 15
Missing	0	0	0	1472	1472
TOTAL	100% 319	100% 497	100% 493	1503	1309

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Desire to be Closer to God by Education (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LESS HS	HS DEGREE	JR COLL	BA DEGREE	GRAD DEGRE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	23.1% 40	18.2% 127	13.4% 15	15.5% 34	13.2% 18	1	17.5% 234
EVERY DAY	37.0% 64	34.4% 240	42.9% 48	25.9% 57	25.7% 35	0	33.2% 444
MOST DAYS	11.6% 20	14.2% 99	17.9% 20	14.5% 32	13.2% 18	0	14.1% 189
SOME DAYS	8.7% 15	12.9% 90	10.7% 12	11.4% 25	14.0% 19	0	12.0% 161
ONCE WHILE	9.8% 17	9.0% 63	6.3% 7	14.5% 32	14.7% 20	0	10.4% 139
NEVER	8.7% 15	9.5% 66	7.1% 8	13.6% 30	18.4% 25	0	10.8% 144
DON’T KNOW	0.6% 1	1.0% 7	0.0% 0	0.9% 2	0.7% 1	0	0.8% 11
NO ANSWER	0.6% 1	0.9% 6	1.8% 2	3.6% 8	0.0% 0	0	1.3% 17
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." 1013. I desire to be closer to God or in union with Him.