Comfort and strength derived from religion; effect of war on the frequency of churchgoing (2488)

Type of Data: Comfort and strength derived from religion; effect of war on the frequency of churchgoing (2488)

Faith Community: Christianity

Date: 1941, January

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 2175

Population: Adults aged 21 and over

Keywords: Church attendance, churchgoing, comfort and strength, religion, Second World War

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: British Institute of Public Opinion. BIPO was established by George Gallup in 1936 to run the British Gallup Poll

Sponsor: News Chronicle

Published Source:

News Chronicle, 31 January 1941

Daily Sketch, 1 February 1941

Mildred Strunk, Public Opinion, 1935-1946, ed. Albert Hadley Cantril, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951, pp. 742, 1152

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937-1975, ed. George Horace Gallup, 2 vol., New York: Random House, 1976, Vol. 1, pp. 40-1

BRIN ID: 2488

Remarks:

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 2040 and SN 3331 and at the Roper Center as GBBIPO41-074

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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