paraphrase: he here presented data is a part of the mixed-method research project on seculars in Switzerland2. It uses the quantitative data of the Religion Monitor from 2013, which was collected among a representative sample (N = 1003) that represents all three language areas of Switzerland (German, French, Italian). During the applied telephone interview in November and December 2012 using a standardized questionnaire on religiosity (Pickel 2013), n = 341 participants define themselves as nonreligious or atheist and were categorized as 'seculars'nevertheless, they can be religiously affiliated or unaffiliated. Among them, n = 113 agreed to an additional face-to-face interview and from those a stratified sample according to age, gender, language, and religious affiliation of n = 83 participants was randomly drawn