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Self-Described Religious Identification of Adult Population: 1990 and 2001 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0074)
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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
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| 1990 data, Barry A. Kosmin and Seymour P. Lachman, | http://www.trincoll.edu/secularisminstitute/ | |||
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1990 data, Barry A. Kosmin and Seymour P. Lachman, “One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society”, 1993; 2001 data, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, < http://www.trincoll.edu/s… | ||||
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1990 data, Barry A. Kosmin and Seymour P. Lachman, “One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary American Society”, 1993; 2001 data, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, < http://www.trincoll.edu/s… | ||||
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The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:
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Footnotes
Notes (pg 2)
- Refers to the total number of adults in all fifty states. All other figures are based on
projections from surveys conducted in the continental United States (48 states). - Because of the subjective nature of replies to open-ended question, these categories are
the most unstable as they do not refer to clearly identifiable denominations as much as
underlying feelings about religion. Thus they may be the most subject to fluctuation over time.
Headnotes
[In thousands.
The American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) 2001 was based on a random
digit-dialed telephone survey of 50,281 American residential households in the
continental U.S.A (48 states).
Respondents were asked to describe themselves in terms of religion with an open-ended
question. Interviewers did not prompt or offer a suggested list of potential answers.
Moreover, the self-description of respondents was not based on whether established
religious bodies, institutions, churches, mosques or synagogues considered them to be
members. Quite the contrary, the survey sought to determine whether the respondents
themselves regarded themselves as adherents of a religious community. Subjective rather
than objective standards of religious identification were tapped by the surveys]
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table: [77, 3]
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| Adult population, total 1 | 175440 | 207980 |
| Total Christian | 151496 | 159506 |
| Catholic | 46004 | 50873 |
| Baptist | 33964 | 33830 |
| Protestant-no denomination supplied | 17214 | 4647 |
| Methodist/Wesleyan | 14174 | 14150 |
| Lutheran | 9110 | 9580 |
| Christian-no denomination supplied | 8073 | 14150 |
| Presbyterian | 4985 | 5596 |
| Pentecostal/Charismatic | 3191 | 4407 |
| Episcopalian/Anglican | 3042 | 3451 |
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| Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, | ||
| <http://www.trincoll.edu/secularisminstitute/> (Copyright). |
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Notes (pg 2)
- (NA) Not available.
Tablenum
0074
Year
2008
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