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Category Archives: visualisation
Religion and party choice: Evidence from the BES 2015 face-to-face post-election survey
This post presents some data from the BES 2015 face-to-face post-election survey (a cross-sectional study with a sample size of 2,987), the fieldwork for which was undertaken between May-September 2015. The dataset and accompanying documentation can be obtained here. This … Continue reading
Exploring Religious Data in the British Social Attitudes 2014 Survey
The latest British Social Attitudes 2014 survey has recently been released via the UKDS, which holds all of the other surveys in the BSA series (as well as the data having being added to the online British Social Attitudes Information System). This … Continue reading
Posted in Research note, Survey news, Uncategorized, visualisation
Tagged British Social Attitudes, British Social Attitudes Surveys, British society, Christianity, Christians, church attendance, Church of England, gay rights, group membership, Non-Denominational Christians, Religious Affiliation, religious attendance, religious belonging, religious extremism, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, social attitudes, Survey Data
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Jesus Test and Other News
The Jesus test Jesus Christ is not often dragged into the contemporary British political arena, but, when He is, people tend to ask what He would do or think about a current situation (or, in a few cases, even … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged Advent calendars, Cabinet Office, Cathedrals, church attendance, church membership, Church of England, Church of England Newspaper, Church Times, Clive Field, ComRes, David Voas, death penalty, European Union, First World War, France, FutureFirst, Germany, ICM Research, Immigration, Ipsos-MORI, Islamic State, ITV News, Jesus Christ, military action, Peter Brierley, politics, Pope Francis, railway nationalization, Rossiya Segodnya, same-sex marriage, social action, Step up to Serve, The Times, War and Society, YouGov, YouGov Profiles, youth
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British Academy Recognition and Other News
BRIN secures British Academy recognition The British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, announced on 23 July 2014 that BRIN is to be one of fine new Academy Research Projects in the social sciences. … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Religious Census, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged alien, Anthony Allison, Anti-Semitism, British Academy, British Religion in Numbers, Church Urban Fund, community activities, ComRes, DataShine, Faith and Belief Scotland, Gaza, importance of religion, Ipsos Global Trends, Ipsos-MORI, Israel, Katherine Sissons, Nonreligion & Secularity, Open Theology, organized religion, Palestinians, Paul Bickley, Public Sector Equality Duty, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious revival, Scotland, Scottish Government, secularization, Social Capital, Steve Bruce, Theos, United Reformed Church, visualization, YouGov
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ADL Index of Anti-Semitism
Britain has one of the lowest rates of anti-Semitism in the world, according to The ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, which was released by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on 13 May 2014. Interviews were conducted, … Continue reading
Scrooging Christmas and Other News
Christmas has become such a secular festival in contemporary Britain that one might have thought that even non-religious people would have no difficulty in joining in, but our first story today shows a disproportionate dislike for Christmas on their part. … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Catholic schools, census of population, Christian conferences, Christmas, church growth, clergy, David Martin, Fair Admissions Campaign, Faith schools, gender equality, God Loves Women, Greater London, InFuse, Ipsos-MORI, Jewish Chronicle, Natalie Collins, Office for National Statistics, professionals, religious admissions criteria, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Sociology of Religion, trust, truth, women, YouGov
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Portrait of Catholics and Other News
This week’s post contains five religious statistical stories, leading on a major new survey of Roman Catholic religious practice and values. Portrait of Catholics Results from one of the most extensive surveys of Roman Catholic opinion for many years were … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Rites of Passage, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged Anti-Semitism, births, Board of Deputies of British Jews, courtrooms, David Vulkan, deaths, European Social Survey, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, face-veils, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Islamophobia, Jews, Linda Woodhead, marriages, Muslims, niqab, Roman Catholics, self-assessed religiosity, Sunday Times, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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Scottish Religious Census, 2011
Release 2A from the 2011 census of Scotland was made on 26 September 2013. It included the first results from the voluntary question on religion, which was: ‘What religion, religious denomination, or body do you belong to?’ This wording was different … Continue reading
Local variation in levels of religious affiliation
The 2011 census reveals a remarkable amount of neighbourhood variation in levels of religion or non-religion. Looking across the 8,570 wards in England – small areas with an average population of about 6,500 – the proportion of people describing themselves … Continue reading
Gender and Religion and Other News
Today BRIN features the third instalment of findings from the YouGov poll commissioned in connection with the 2013 series of Westminster Faith Debates, plus the usual miscellany of other British religious statistical news. Gender and religion There is little public … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news, visualisation
Tagged Albert Jewell, anti-Muslim incidents, child abuse, Church of England, ComRes, Dress, European Values Study, gender, gender segregation, hymns, image of the Church, Inge Sieben, Islamophobia, Janet Eldred, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Linda Woodhead, Loek Halman, Marga van Zundert, Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks, Mental Health, Michael Jackson, Michael Lowis, parish level, policies, Pope, Premier Media Group, religious leadership, Research Group of the Christian Council on Ageing, Roman Catholic Church, separate education, teachings and traditions, Tell MAMA, Westminster Faith Debates, women, YouGov
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