Demographic profile and religious involvement of churchgoers and non-churchgoers, and attitudes of church members to social issues (2293)

Type of Data: Demographic profile and religious involvement of churchgoers and non-churchgoers, and attitudes of church members to social issues (2293)

Faith Community: General, Christianity (Church of England, Methodist Church, Roman Catholic Church)

Date: 1966, January

Geography: Local survey. Hall Green, Birmingham

Sample Size: 179 Church of England (74% response), 153 Methodist (86% response) and 141 Roman Catholic church members (68% response), 309 adults (51% response) including 133 non-churchgoers

Population: Church of England, Methodist and Roman Catholic church members aged 21 and over, and adults aged 21 and over on the electoral register

Keywords: Alcohol, betting, bingo, church attendance, churchgoing, church organizations, contraception, divorce, drink, family, family planning, football pools, friends, gambling, horse racing, industrial relations, office-holding, racism, raffles, religious affiliation, remarriage in church, social issues, total abstinence, voting

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Cyril Stanley Rodd

Published Source:

Cyril Stanley Rodd, 'Church Affiliation and Denominational Values', Sociology, Vol. 2, 1968, pp. 79-90

Cyril Stanley Rodd, 'Can the Churches be Opinion Leaders?', New Directions, Vol. 5, No. 19, 1968, pp. 25-9

Cyril Stanley Rodd, 'Religiosity and its Correlates: Hall Green, Birmingham', Religion in the Birmingham Area: Essays in the Sociology of Religion, ed. Alan Bryman, Birmingham: Institute for the Study of Worship and Religious Architecture, University of Birmingham, 1975, pp. 99-111

BRIN ID: 2293

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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