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.. Results weighted by WT2004 (General Social Survey, 2004)

Feel joy that lifts by Sex

	MALE	FEMALE	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	10.4% 60	17.4% 106	14.0% 166
EVERY DAY	19.1% 110	20.4% 124	19.7% 234
MOST DAYS	17.7% 102	23.0% 140	20.4% 242
SOME DAYS	14.1% 81	15.1% 92	14.6% 173
ONCE WHILE	17.7% 102	14.0% 85	15.8% 187
NEVER	18.8% 108	8.7% 53	13.6% 161
DON’T KNOW	1.2% 7	0.2% 1	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	1.0% 6	1.3% 8	1.2% 14
Missing	608	732	1340
TOTAL	100.0% 576	100.0% 609	1185

Feel joy that lifts by Race

	WHITE	BLACK	OTHER	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	11.7% 110	27.0% 33	19.2% 23	14.0% 166
EVERY DAY	20.0% 189	15.6% 19	21.7% 26	19.7% 234
MOST DAYS	20.0% 189	27.0% 33	16.7% 20	20.4% 242
SOME DAYS	15.5% 146	9.8% 12	12.5% 15	14.6% 173
ONCE WHILE	16.4% 155	10.7% 13	15.8% 19	15.8% 187
NEVER	14.5% 137	6.6% 8	13.3% 16	13.6% 161
DON’T KNOW	0.8% 8	0.0% 0	0.0% 0	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	1.0% 9	3.3% 4	0.8% 1	1.2% 14
Missing	1079	157	104	1340
TOTAL	100.0% 943	100.0% 122	100.0% 120	1185

Feel joy that lifts by Religion

	PROTESTANT	CATHOLIC	OTHER	NONE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	16.2% 100	13.6% 41	17.5% 18	4.4% 7	0	14.0% 166
EVERY DAY	22.7% 140	19.9% 60	18.4% 19	9.4% 15	0	19.8% 234
MOST DAYS	23.1% 143	19.9% 60	20.4% 21	11.3% 18	0	20.5% 242
SOME DAYS	13.9% 86	20.2% 61	16.5% 17	5.6% 9	0	14.6% 173
ONCE WHILE	15.7% 97	15.2% 46	15.5% 16	17.5% 28	0	15.8% 187
NEVER	7.0% 43	8.9% 27	7.8% 8	51.3% 82	1	13.5% 160
DON’T KNOW	0.2% 1	1.7% 5	1.9% 2	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	1.3% 8	0.7% 2	1.9% 2	0.6% 1	1	1.1% 13
Missing	672	332	148	178	0	1330
TOTAL	100.0% 618	100.0% 302	100.0% 103	100.0% 160	2	1183

Feel joy that lifts by Age

	18-30	31-44	45-64	65+	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	11.7% 34	14.9% 53	14.4% 57	15.9% 22	0	14.1% 166
EVERY DAY	15.8% 46	24.2% 86	20.8% 82	14.5% 20	0	19.8% 234
MOST DAYS	22.3% 65	18.8% 67	19.2% 76	23.2% 32	2	20.3% 240
SOME DAYS	16.2% 47	11.5% 41	15.9% 63	15.9% 22	0	14.7% 173
ONCE WHILE	18.2% 53	16.3% 58	13.7% 54	15.9% 22	0	15.8% 187
NEVER	15.1% 44	12.6% 45	13.9% 55	10.9% 15	2	13.5% 159
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.8% 3	0.8% 3	1.4% 2	0	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	0.7% 2	0.8% 3	1.3% 5	2.2% 3	1	1.1% 13
Missing	307	378	497	152	0	1334
TOTAL	100.0% 291	100.0% 356	100.0% 395	100.0% 138	5	1180

Feel joy that lifts by Church attendance

	NEVER	< 1 A MNTH	< 1 A WEEK	WEEKLY +	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	2.9% 5	7.1% 28	12.7% 35	28.9% 98	0	14.0% 166
EVERY DAY	8.0% 14	13.2% 52	24.6% 68	29.5% 100	0	19.8% 234
MOST DAYS	13.8% 24	18.3% 72	24.6% 68	23.0% 78	0	20.5% 242
SOME DAYS	10.3% 18	17.0% 67	19.9% 55	9.7% 33	0	14.6% 173
ONCE WHILE	19.0% 33	24.1% 95	13.0% 36	6.8% 23	0	15.8% 187
NEVER	44.3% 77	18.3% 72	3.3% 9	0.9% 3	0	13.6% 161
DON’T KNOW	0.6% 1	1.0% 4	1.1% 3	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	1.1% 2	1.0% 4	0.7% 2	1.2% 4	2	1.0% 12
Missing	190	486	286	369	0	1331
TOTAL	100.0% 174	100.0% 394	100.0% 276	100.0% 339	2	1183

Feel joy that lifts by Political ideology

	LIBERAL	MODERATE	CONSERV	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	11.1% 31	14.6% 62	14.3% 65	8	13.6% 158
EVERY DAY	17.9% 50	20.7% 88	20.9% 95	1	20.1% 233
MOST DAYS	19.7% 55	18.5% 79	22.6% 103	5	20.4% 237
SOME DAYS	12.5% 35	15.0% 64	15.6% 71	3	14.7% 170
ONCE WHILE	17.2% 48	16.2% 69	14.9% 68	2	15.9% 185
NEVER	21.1% 59	13.4% 57	9.0% 41	4	13.5% 157
DON’T KNOW	0.0% 0	0.7% 3	1.1% 5	0	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	0.4% 1	0.9% 4	1.5% 7	2	1.0% 12
TOTAL	100.0% 279	100.0% 426	100.0% 455	25	1160

Feel joy that lifts by Education

	LESS HS	HS DEGREE	JR COLL	BA DEGREE	GRAD DEGRE	Missing	TOTAL
MANY A DAY	23.7% 32	12.7% 80	20.2% 18	10.5% 22	10.7% 13	1	13.9% 165
EVERY DAY	14.8% 20	23.4% 147	18.0% 16	15.7% 33	14.8% 18	0	19.8% 234
MOST DAYS	23.7% 32	20.7% 130	18.0% 16	20.0% 42	18.0% 22	0	20.4% 242
SOME DAYS	12.6% 17	14.5% 91	14.6% 13	15.7% 33	15.6% 19	0	14.6% 173
ONCE WHILE	9.6% 13	14.8% 93	13.5% 12	19.5% 41	23.0% 28	0	15.8% 187
NEVER	14.1% 19	12.3% 77	12.4% 11	15.2% 32	18.0% 22	0	13.6% 161
DON’T KNOW	0.7% 1	0.8% 5	0.0% 0	1.0% 2	0.0% 0	0	0.7% 8
NO ANSWER	0.7% 1	0.8% 5	3.4% 3	2.4% 5	0.0% 0	0	1.2% 14
Missing	148	658	106	291	137	0	1340
TOTAL	100.0% 135	100.0% 628	100.0% 89	100.0% 210	100.0% 122	1	1184

Notes

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.