At the General Social Survey website, sda.

berkeley.edu/GSS, by entering HEAVEN in the Row box, you can find the percentages of people who said yes, definitely; yes, probably; no, probably not; and no, definitely not when asked whether they believed in heaven.

(a) Report the percentage who gave one of the yes responses.

(b) To obtain data for a particular year such as 2008, enter YEAR(2008) in the Selection filter option box before you click on Run the table. Do this for HEAVEN in 2008, and report the percentage who gave one of the yes responses.

(The GSS asked this question only in 1991, 1998, and 2008.)

(c) Summarize opinions in 2008 about belief in hell (characteristic HELL in the GSS). Was the percentage of yes responses higher for HEAVEN or for HELL?