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ASKING STANDARD DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS 279<br />

Are you, yourself, a member of a church, synagogue, or<br />

mosque?<br />

Yes<br />

No<br />

How often do you attend religious services?<br />

Never<br />

Less than once a year<br />

About once or twice a year<br />

Several times a year<br />

About once a month<br />

2–3 times a month<br />

Nearly every week<br />

Every week<br />

Several times a week<br />

For some purposes, it may be useful to obtain information on<br />

the religion in which a person is raised. In that case, the following<br />

question might be asked:<br />

What religion, if any, were you raised in? Was it Protestant,<br />

Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, some other religion, or no religion?<br />

Summary<br />

A researcher can spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel when<br />

trying to determine how to ask demographic questions. It is best to<br />

adopt the questions used in this chapter and modify them to suit<br />

your research questions. For the most part questions are stated in<br />

order to provide a reasonably extreme or fine-grain level of precision.<br />

<strong>The</strong> questions can easily be made less complex if this degree<br />

of precision is not needed.

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