Religious Service Attendance

• Introduction
• Patterns
• Over Time
• Other Surveys

Religious Service Attendance

How often do you attend religious services? (General Social Survey, 2004)

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Religious Service Attendance (General Social Survey, 2004)
1) Never 471 (16.8%)   2) Once a year or less 594 (21.2%)   3) Several times a year 371 (13.2%)   4) Once a month 191 (6.8%)   5) 2 - 3 times a month 255 (9.1%)   6) Every week or nearly every week 677 (24.2%)   7) Several times a week 242 (8.6%)

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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.