2019 United States Secular Survey (ICPSR 37928)
Version Date: Jan 18, 2021 View help for published
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American Atheists;
Strength in Numbers Consulting Group
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37928.v1
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The 2019 United States Secular Survey was created in response to a gap in knowledge about unreligious people in the United States. Nearly 34,000 atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, and others were surveyed and asked to provided essential data about their communities, priorities, and lives. The 2019 U.S. Secular Survey was designed after a series of focus groups with 89 nonreligious people who attended the American Atheists National Conference in April of 2019. The survey was available in English and Spanish and was distributed online using the Qualtrics platform from October 15, 2019, to November 2, 2019
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This data collection my not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, some of the other data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these files researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement.
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This study was conducted with the goal of publishing a report about secular and non-religious people in American, and of using the data to help inform programming and advocacy for American Atheists and other secular and non-religious organizations
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In order to be included in the final dataset used for this report, respondents had to (at minimum) consent, enter a valid age (18 or older), identity to at least some extent with at least one secular or nonreligious identity, and enter a valid state or territory. Responses to questions from incomplete surveys were included in analyses of questions with a complete response. Respondents were directed only to those questions that applied to them; for example, only those who were currently or had at some time been employed were asked about negative events that occurred during the last three years in employment settings. The race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation questions were all structured so that respondents could select all the options that apply to them. Only 53 respondents, or less than 1 percent of the sample, took the survey in Spanish.
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Individuals ages 18 or older who live in any of the states or territories of the United States.
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