Refer to the previous exercise. You can obtain data for a particular survey year such as 2008 by entering YEAR(2008) in the Selection Filter option box before you click on Run the Table.
a. Do this for HEAVEN in 2008, giving the percentages for the four possible outcomes.
b. Summarize opinions in 2008 about belief in hell (row variable HELL). Was the percentage of “yes, definitely” responses higher for belief in heaven or in hell?
Previous Problem
Go to the General Social Survey Web site, sda.berkeley.edu/GSS. Enter HEAVEN as the row variable and then click Run the Table. When asked whether or not they believed in heaven, what percentage of those surveyed said yes, definitely; yes, probably; no, probably not; and no, definitely not? (Data from CSM, UC Berkeley.)