Asking for God's Help

• Introduction
• Patterns

Asking for God's Help (Demographic Patterns)

I ask for God's help in the midst of daily activities.

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Asking for God's Help by Gender (General Social Survey, 2004)

	MALE	FEMALE	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	12.5% 78	30.7% 220	22.2% 298
EVERY DAY	21.5% 134	25.8% 185	23.8% 319
MOST DAYS	13.1% 82	11.3% 81	12.2% 163
SOME DAYS	15.7% 98	13.0% 93	14.3% 191
ONCE WHILE	16.7% 104	9.2% 66	12.7% 170
NEVER	18.6% 116	8.9% 64	13.4% 180
DON’T KNOW	0.6% 4	0.0% 0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	1.3% 8	1.0% 7	1.1% 15
Missing	656	816	1472
TOTAL	100% 624	100% 716	1340

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Asking for God's Help by Race (General Social Survey, 2004)

	WHITE	BLACK	OTHER	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	19.8% 213	40.0% 64	20.2% 21	22.2% 298
EVERY DAY	23.2% 250	28.1% 45	23.1% 24	23.8% 319
MOST DAYS	11.9% 128	14.4% 23	11.5% 12	12.2% 163
SOME DAYS	14.6% 157	10.0% 16	17.3% 18	14.3% 191
ONCE WHILE	14.0% 151	2.5% 4	14.4% 15	12.7% 170
NEVER	15.1% 163	3.1% 5	11.5% 12	13.4% 180
DON’T KNOW	0.4% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	0.9% 10	1.9% 3	1.9% 2	1.1% 15
Missing	1158	217	97	1472
TOTAL	100% 1076	100% 160	100% 104	1340

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Asking for God's Help by Religion (General Social Survey, 2004)

	PROTESTANT	CATHOLIC	OTHER	NONE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	25.6% 183	21.6% 69	24.3% 25	10.6% 21	0	22.3% 298
EVERY DAY	28.2% 201	24.4% 78	24.3% 25	7.0% 14	1	23.8% 318
MOST DAYS	13.4% 96	13.8% 44	12.6% 13	5.0% 10	0	12.2% 163
SOME DAYS	12.0% 86	19.7% 63	11.7% 12	15.1% 30	0	14.3% 191
ONCE WHILE	12.2% 87	14.4% 46	7.8% 8	14.6% 29	0	12.7% 170
NEVER	7.4% 53	4.7% 15	17.5% 18	46.7% 93	1	13.4% 179
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	1.3% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	1.1% 8	0.3% 1	1.9% 2	1.0% 2	2	1.0% 13
Missing	769	336	155	204	8	1472
TOTAL	100% 714	100% 320	100% 103	100% 199	12	1336

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Asking for God's Help by Age (General Social Survey, 2004)

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	17.2% 50	22.7% 90	24.1% 105	25.0% 53	0	22.3% 298
EVERY DAY	19.9% 58	23.4% 93	24.1% 105	29.2% 62	1	23.8% 318
MOST DAYS	13.4% 39	13.1% 52	9.9% 43	13.7% 29	0	12.2% 163
SOME DAYS	17.5% 51	15.6% 62	14.2% 62	7.5% 16	0	14.3% 191
ONCE WHILE	16.8% 49	12.1% 48	12.2% 53	9.4% 20	0	12.7% 170
NEVER	14.1% 41	11.6% 46	14.4% 63	13.2% 28	2	13.3% 178
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.8% 3	0.2% 1	0.0% 0	0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	1.0% 3	0.8% 3	0.9% 4	1.9% 4	1	1.0% 14
Missing	305	413	531	218	5	1472
TOTAL	100% 291	100% 397	100% 436	100% 212	9	1336

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Asking for God's Help by Church attendance (General Social Survey, 2004)

	NEVER	< 1 A MNTH	< 1 A WEEK	WEEKLY +	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	9.6% 22	14.5% 66	19.7% 56	41.8% 154	0	22.3% 298
EVERY DAY	10.4% 24	17.4% 79	28.2% 80	37.0% 136	0	23.9% 319
MOST DAYS	6.5% 15	13.9% 63	16.2% 46	10.6% 39	0	12.2% 163
SOME DAYS	12.6% 29	18.1% 82	19.7% 56	6.5% 24	0	14.3% 191
ONCE WHILE	18.3% 42	19.4% 88	10.6% 30	2.7% 10	0	12.7% 170
NEVER	41.3% 95	15.0% 68	4.9% 14	0.5% 2	1	13.4% 179
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.7% 3	0.4% 1	0.0% 0	0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	1.3% 3	1.1% 5	0.4% 1	0.8% 3	3	0.9% 12
Missing	241	511	331	382	7	1472
TOTAL	100% 230	100% 454	100% 284	100% 368	11	1336

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Asking for God's Help by Political ideology (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LIBERAL	MODERATE	CONSERV	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	16.3% 52	23.5% 117	24.3% 120	9	22.1% 289
EVERY DAY	22.6% 72	22.7% 113	26.0% 128	6	23.9% 313
MOST DAYS	10.0% 32	12.9% 64	12.8% 63	4	12.1% 159
SOME DAYS	11.0% 35	15.9% 79	15.0% 74	3	14.4% 188
ONCE WHILE	15.4% 49	12.3% 61	11.2% 55	5	12.6% 165
NEVER	23.2% 74	11.9% 59	9.1% 45	2	13.6% 178
DON’T KNOW	0.3% 1	0.0% 0	0.6% 3	0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	1.3% 4	0.8% 4	1.0% 5	2	1.0% 13
Missing	0	0	0	1472	1472
TOTAL	100% 319	100% 497	100% 493	1503	1309

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Asking for God's Help by Education (General Social Survey, 2004)

	LESS HS	HS DEGREE	JR COLL	BA DEGREE	GRAD DEGRE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	26.6% 46	21.8% 152	22.3% 25	23.2% 51	17.6% 24	0	22.3% 298
EVERY DAY	27.7% 48	27.1% 189	24.1% 27	17.3% 38	11.8% 16	1	23.7% 318
MOST DAYS	12.7% 22	12.6% 88	10.7% 12	10.0% 22	14.0% 19	0	12.2% 163
SOME DAYS	12.7% 22	13.6% 95	16.1% 18	15.0% 33	16.9% 23	0	14.3% 191
ONCE WHILE	9.2% 16	12.2% 85	16.1% 18	13.2% 29	16.2% 22	0	12.7% 170
NEVER	10.4% 18	11.6% 81	8.9% 10	17.7% 39	23.5% 32	0	13.4% 180
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.6% 4	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0	0.3% 4
NO ANSWER	0.6% 1	0.6% 4	1.8% 2	3.6% 8	0.0% 0	0	1.1% 15
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. I ask for God's help in the midst of daily activities.