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Monthly Archives: December 2011
December 2011 Cpanel
ComRes released two tranches of data from its latest Cpanel survey on 20 and 24 December. The study was undertaken among an online sample of 559 practising UK Christians aged 18 and over between 2 and 14 December 2011. One … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged anti-capitalism, Christmas, Church of England, ComRes, Cpanel, financial services, force, Jesus Christ, Occupy London, Premier Christian Media Trust, religious festivals, St Paul's Cathedral
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Citizenship Survey Topic Reports, 2009/10
The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) released three topic reports on the Citizenship Survey on 21 December, the first such publications for fifteen months. They can be accessed at: http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/research/citizenshipsurvey/recentreports/ The documents relate to the Citizenship Survey undertaken … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged charitable giving, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, community action, community cohesion, community spirit, Department for Communities and Local Government, equalities, ethnic minorities, freedom of religion, friends, government, influence of religion, Ipsos-MORI, Muslims, physical attack, places of worship, protection of religious rights, racial prejudice, Religious Affiliation, Religious discrimination, religious harassment, Religious Practice, religious prejudice, respect, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, volunteering
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Christian Research’s Christmastide Pot-Pourri
A rather improbable 53% of Britons claim they will be observing Christmas as a religious festival in some way this year, 2% more than actually affiliate as Christians, according to an opinion poll published today (23 December 2011). Fieldwork was … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged Abbie Heath, Bible, carol services, carol singing, Christian Research, Christians, Christmas, Christmas cards, church attendance, ComRes, faith-based moral values, nativity plays, Occupy London, prayer, religious broadcasts, religious festivals, social activism
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New Anglican Head of Research and Statistics
Dr Bev Botting has been appointed Head of Research and Statistics in the Archbishops’ Council, following open recruitment, the Church of England announced on 19 December 2011. She takes up the post on 13 February 2012. Dr Botting will join … Continue reading
Religious Christmas Cards
Supermarkets have become ‘ashamed’ of selling Christmas cards with religious themes, some Christian leaders have claimed in response to a survey published in today’s Daily Mail which showed that only 0.5% of 6,576 cards sold individually and 5.0% of 1,337 … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged Asda, Christmas cards, Daily Mail, Morrisons, religious festivals, Sainsbury's, supermarkets, Tesco
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Crime and Religion
Muslims are the faith group most likely to report an experience of religiously-motivated crime during the previous twelve months, but they are less likely to be victims of crime in general than those professing no religion. This is according to … Continue reading
Communicating Evangelicals
‘Christians are engaging in politics to a far greater degree than the average British citizen, and their weapon of choice is social media, new research shows. The research also finds that their range of concerns goes far beyond the stereotyped … Continue reading
Toilet Roll Nativity
Two out of three women recall that the girl cast as the Virgin Mary in church and school nativity plays was chosen for her attractive looks (27%), good behaviour (22%) or being teacher’s pet (16%). Only 3% thought that acting … Continue reading
Muslim Integration
Concern among Britons about the integration of Muslim immigrants into British society has lessened somewhat over the past year but still remains at quite a high level, according to the fourth report on Transatlantic Trends: Immigration, published in Washington on … Continue reading
Update of BRIN Sources Database
The annual update of the BRIN sources database has just taken place. This has added descriptions of 109 new statistical sources, 72 from 2011 and 37 for previous years, together with bibliographical and other enhancements to 20 existing entries. The total … Continue reading