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Belief in life after death
Variable:
postlife
Module:
Core
Subject:
Religion
Survey Questions
Questions associated with this variable:
Do you believe there is a life after death?
Year Availability
Available in 27 of 32 years total.
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Summary by Year
Showing All Years
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yes |
| 2 | No |
| 8 | Don't know |
| 9 | No answer |
| 0 | Not applicable |
| 1973 | 1975 | 1976 | 1978 | 1980 | 1983 | 1984 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1993 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1051 | 1000 | 1073 | 1069 | 1071 | 1086 | 1074 | 1117 | 1304 | 1089 | 690 | 643 | 732 | 780 | 1425 | 1429 | 1687 | 1687 | 975 | 958 | 2177 | 1455 | 1462 | 1427 | 1783 | 2089 | 1720 |
| 316 | 341 | 299 | 325 | 247 | 389 | 278 | 246 | 369 | 282 | 218 | 178 | 177 | 185 | 327 | 308 | 379 | 377 | 236 | 213 | 452 | 332 | 341 | 340 | 459 | 499 | 403 |
| 137 | 147 | 126 | 135 | 144 | 120 | 111 | 104 | 139 | 109 | 97 | 98 | 110 | 111 | 206 | 190 | 281 | 244 | 151 | 166 | 356 | 231 | 235 | 200 | 291 | 271 | 216 |
| 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 33 | 22 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 531 | 444 | 493 | 526 | 1015 | 944 | 463 | 486 | 1393 | 1472 | 1518 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary Statistics
| Valid cases | 40446 |
| Missing cases | 22020 |