Survey of Heritage and Religious Identification
Sponsor | Institute for Jewish & Community Research, San Francisco | Principal Investigator | Drs. Gary Tobin and Sid Groeneman, Institute for Jewish & Community Research, San Francisco. Dr. Groeneman is also President of Groeneman Research & Consulting, Bethesda, Maryland. | Study Dates | July 31-November 7, 2001, March 4-June 11, 2002 | Population Estimates | Report estimates that there are 6.02 million Jews in the United States. | Key Findings | Two reports (available below) summarize the study's findings:
Surveying the Jewish Population of the United States, 2003 and
The Decline of Religious Identity in the United States, 2004 |
Sample |
Adult Jewish Households in the Continental United States. | Sample Size | 10,204 | Sample Notes | Data collection for the Survey of Heritage and Religious Identification (HARI) 2001-02 occurred in two parts.
Interviewing for Part I took place from July 3, 2001 through November 7, 2001 and consisted of 5,100 interviews.
Interviewing for Part II took place from March 4, 2002 through June 11, 2002 and consisted of 5,104 interviews.
Of the 10,204 adults interviewed for a study on ethnic/cultural/religious identity, 259 were Jews.
The sampling design exclusively used random digit dialing, with an equal probability of selection across the all areas of the sampling universe. Each number received at least 10 contact attempts before replacement.
Weights: prswght8 is the person-level weight, and is used for most analyses; hhwgt is the household-level weight.
Please see the detailed File Structure notes written by Dr. Groeneman, which describes file order, file structure, and appropriate weights.
| Study Notes | Jewish persons were defined in the HARI study to include: (a) adults whose current religion is Jewish, including those who specify other religions (excluding Messianic Jews), (b) adults who say they were raised Jewish or have a Jewish parent or formerly practiced Judaism and who specify no current religion, (c) adults who say their ethnic/cultural group is Jewish and who specify no current religion, d) children in households where at least one adult specifies Judaism as their current religion and the respondent reports that the children are being raised Jewish, at least in part.
HARI also identifies two categories of people connected to the Jewish community, although they are not included in the 6.0 million population estimate: "Connected non-Jews" and "Persons of Jewish heritage" (see pp. 6-7 of "Surveying the Jewish Population..."for full details).
"Connected non-Jews" includes an estimated 199,000 adults who practice Judaism as their secondary religion (i.e. they gave another religion first and Judaism later); 1.105 million adults who were raised Jewish or had a Jewish parent or were formerly Jewish and currently practice a religion other than Judaism; 769,000 adults who are ethnically/culturally Jewish and practice a religion other than Judaism; and, 695,000 non-Jewish adults with a spouse or partner who has a Jewish identity.
The category of "Persons of Jewish heritage" consists of "non-connected non-Jewish adults who report having a grandparent or more distant ancestor who was Jewish." It is estimated that there are approximately 4.2 million adults of Jewish heritage in the United States. |
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