THE ANES GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR
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Religion an Important Part of Life  1980-2004


                           '80  '82  '84  '86  '88  '90  '92  '94  '96  '98  '00  '02  '04 
 
                      Yes   75   **   79   79   78   79   78   77   78   77   76   75   77 
                       No   25   **   21   21   22   21   22   23   22   23   24   25   23
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                       N  1398      1911 1071 1760 1958 2296 1762 1707 1271 1800 1505 1202  



PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 1B.3
Source:  The American National Election Studies



     QUESTION TEXT:

     "Do you consider religion to be an important part of your life, or
     not?"
       


     This question is variable VCF0846 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
     Consult the Cumulative Data File codebook for complete question text and annotation.
     Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation).

     Table generated:  27NOV05