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Tag Archives: Citizenship Survey
Faithful Citizens
‘Religious citizens in the UK are more likely to be civically engaged and politically active than their non-religious counterparts. They are also more likely to hold progressive political values on a number of important political and economic questions at the … Continue reading
Islamophobia in the West
Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes, edited by Marc Helbling (of the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin) was published by Routledge on 16 February 2012 (ISBN 978-0-415-59444-8, hardback, £80). The book comprises 13 essays exploring the views … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Measuring religion, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate
Tagged attitude scales, Citizenship Survey, Clive Field, Erik Bleich, Islam, Islamophobia, Marc Helbling, Marco Cinnirella, Muslims, Rahsaan Maxwell, social psychology, students
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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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Farewell to the Citizenship Survey
Headline findings from the 2010-11 Citizenship Survey for England and Wales were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 22 September 2011 in the form of Cohesion Research Statistical Release No. 16, comprising a textual report and … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news
Tagged Belonging, Britishness, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, cohesion, decisions, Department for Communities and Local Government, Home Office, Ipsos-MORI, neighbourhod, places of worship, religious harassment, religious prejudice, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, violence, volunteering
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Social Trends 41
As previously noted (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=365), Social Trends, the compilation by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of social data from governmental and other sources, is now only published online, and in serialized form. The latest version of the chapter on lifestyles … Continue reading
Latest Cohesion Research
Religious prejudice may be diminishing, and community cohesion increasing, according to the latest statistics from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Citizenship Survey, released on 13 January. The data relate to April-September 2010, the first two quarters of … Continue reading
Future of the Citizenship Survey
There have been several posts on the BRIN website this year highlighting key religion-related findings from various reports on the Department for Communities and Local Government’s Citizenship Survey of England and Wales. The Survey commenced in 2001 and currently runs … Continue reading
Violent Extremism
One of the four strands in the previous Labour government’s CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy was focused on preventing extremism. It was especially concerned to stop the radicalization of young Muslims, following the London bombings in 2005. In an effort to improve … Continue reading
Freedom of Religion
It is ten years since the Human Rights Act entered the statute books. To commemorate the anniversary, the campaigning organization Liberty has commissioned ComRes to undertake a poll of public attitudes to human rights. Fieldwork was conducted by telephone between … Continue reading