Frequency of Prayer

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Frequency of Prayer

About how often do you pray? (General Social Survey, 2004)

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Frequency of Prayer (General Social Survey, 2004)
1) Several times a day 416 (31.2%)   2) Once a day 369 (27.7%)   3) Several times a week 189 (14.2%)   4) Once a week 77 (5.8%)   5) Less than once a week 144 (10.8%)   6) Never 137 (10.3%)

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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.