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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2018

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 34, July 2018 features 18 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 34 July 2018 OPINION POLLS Attitudes to Christians and Christianity In connection with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Alexanda Kotey, Alexander Bentley, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, British Social Attitudes Surveys, capital punishment, Christianity, Christians, Church in Wales, Church of England, Church of Scotland, Community Security Trust, ComRes, Damian Ruck, Daniel Lawson, David Bartholomew, economic change, ethnicity, European Values Surveys, Fiona Tweedie, freedom of religion, godparents, Hodder Faith, Home for Good, human rights, Ipsos Global Advisor, Ipsos-MORI, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish Leadership Council, Jewish News, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Labour Party, LGBT people, Methodist Church, Methodist Statistics for Mission, Ministry of Justice, NatCen, Nick Spencer, Office for National Statistics, politics, Populus, pride, prisoners, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious minorities, religious prejudice, religious violence, Robin Gill, Science Advances, secularization, Shafee el-Sheikh, Sikhism, Sunday Times, The Conversation, The Times, Theos, United States, World Values Surveys, YouGov | 1 Comment

Counting Religion in Britain, June 2016

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 9, June 2016 features 24 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 9 June 2016 OPINION POLLS – BREXIT The referendum on the United Kingdom’s … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Organisational data, People news, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious prejudice, Survey news | Tagged Arts and Humanities Research Council, Assaad Razzouk, Baptist Union, BBC, Bharath Ganesh, Bill Pickering, Brexit, British Social Attitudes Survey, charitable giving, Charities Aid Foundation, Christian Research, church attendance, church membership, Church of England, Clare Purtill, clergy, ComRes, Conservative Woman, David Bull, Department of Health, end-of-life care, European Network against Racism, European Union, Faith schools, faith-based charities, freedom of speech, GfK NOP, Gillian Madden, hate speech, Hope Not Hate, Howard Wright, Ideate Research, Iman Abou Atta, Islam, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Joseph Ewing, large churches, Leslie Francis, Liz Graveling, Lord Ashcroft, Lucy de Las Casas, Mandy Robbins, ministry, Muslims, NatCen, National Survey of Bereaved People, New Philanthropy Capital, Nick Spencer, Office for National Statistics, ORB International, Pew Global Attitudes Project, politics, Practical Theology, practising Christians, psychological type, Quakers, Rachel Wharton, referendum, Religion and the Public Sphere, Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious leaders, Religious Society of Friends, Resonate, science, Scottish Surveys Core Questions, senior religious figures, Survation, Tell MAMA, The Independent, theory of evolution, Theos, threat, TNS-BMRB, trust, voting, well-being, women, YouGov | 2 Comments

Muslim Distinctiveness and Other News

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Today’s round-up of eight religious statistical news stories leads on the first substantive output from an important and academic-led four-year-old sample survey of British Muslims. Muslim distinctiveness The distinctiveness of British Muslims is explored in a short but highly significant … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged baby names, biblical names, British Social Attitudes Survey, Cathedrals, Catholic Herald, charitable giving, Charities Aid Foundation, Christian Research, Christianity, church attendance, Church of Scotland, Church Times, ComRes, confessions, Diocese of Lancaster, distinctiveness, England, fracking, Ipsos-MORI, Jewish Baby Directory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Kristin Aune, Mathew Guest, Muslims, NatCen, Pope, Presbytery of Dunfermline, Religiosity, Religious Affiliation, religious organizations, Resonate, Ridhi Kashyap, Rob Warner, Roman Catholic Church, Sacrament of Reconciliation, ScotCen, Scotland, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Social Capital, social conservatism, Sonya Sharma, university students, Valerie Lewis, volunteering | Leave a comment

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2012

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Clive D. Field

The results of the British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey for 2012 were released by NatCen on 10 September 2013 via a dedicated website – http://www.bsa-30.natcen.ac.uk – which includes, among other outputs, a copy of the questionnaire (with marginals) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Survey news | Tagged abortion, Alison Park, Anthony Heath, British Social Attitudes Survey, Caroline Bryson, church attendance, dying, Elizabeth Clery, homosexuality, John Curtice, Mike Savage, Miranda Phillips, NatCen, Nicki Senior, personal relationships, premarital sex, Rebecca Rhead, religion of upbringing, Religious Affiliation, spiritual needs | 3 Comments

Eight Shorts

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Eight short items of statistical news feature in today’s second post, clearing a small backlog which has built up during a week’s absence from the desk. Hate crime The overwhelming majority of the British public (84%) consider that an attack … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Catholic Directory, Christian Research, Christian Resources Exhibitions International, Church Commissioners, church music, Church of England, church organs, discrimination, hate crime, Ipsos-MORI, James Hinton, King's College London, Latin Mass Society, Mass-Observation, NatCen, Really, Resonate, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Statistical Society, statistics, stress, Sundays, YouGov | Leave a comment

Money for Good and Other News

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Clive D. Field

BRIN certainly cannot trump the unprecedented inauguration of new leaders of the global Catholic and Anglican communions within the same week. But, on a business-as-usual level, here are six more religious statistical stories for your edification. Money for good UK … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged All Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education, Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Survey, Centre for Church Growth Research, charitable giving, church growth, Church of England, Cranmer Hall, David Goodhew, homosexuality, Ipsos-MORI, Lucy de Las Casas, Matt van Poortvliet, meditation, Mind, ministry, Money for Good UK, NatCen, New Philanthropy Capital, ordinands, Parliamentary Affairs, Populus, religious education, Rob Abercrombie, Sally Bagwell, same-sex marriage, Stephen Lloyd, volunteering, YouGov | Leave a comment

God Trumped by Aliens – and Other News

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Clive D. Field

God Trumped by Aliens More people believe in the existence of life on other planets (53%) than believe in God (44%, which is a lower proportion than in other polls, possibly explained by a difference in question-wording). Only Northern Ireland … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Survey news | Tagged 2k Games, ageing, Aliens, Andrew Steptoe, Christian journey, Christianity, church attendance, ComRes, Cpanel, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, God, Halloween, Institute for Fiscal Studies, James Banks, James Nazroo, NatCen, Opinion Matters, Planet Retail, pornography, Premier Christian Media, psychological well-being, Religious Affiliation, Sixth Sense, UFOs, unidentified flying objects, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, YouGov | Leave a comment

Christian Attitudes to Poverty

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Attending church appears to do little to change people’s underlying attitudes to poverty and inequality, with no great differences between the views of churchgoers and non-churchgoers, and – in particular – sharp divergences between those of clergy and their congregations. These … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, Church Action on Poverty, church attendance, Church of England, Church Urban Fund, clergy, inequality, NatCen, poverty | 2 Comments

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2010

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘Britain is becoming less religious, with the numbers who affiliate with a religion or attend religious services experiencing a long-term decline. And this trend seems set to continue; not only as older, more religious generations are replaced by younger, less … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Survey news | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, church attendance, Lucy Lee, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, Religious Affiliation, school choice, Sonia Exley | 2 Comments

Wellcome Trust Monitor

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Among the datasets released this month by the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is that for the Wellcome Trust Monitor 1, 2009 (SN 6889). A suite of technical documentation can be found at: http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=6889&key=6889 The Monitor (expected to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged alternative medicine, commencement of life, Creationism, Economic and Social Data Service, Elizabeth Clery, evolution, homeopathy, horoscopes, Miranda Phillips, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, origins of life, pseudoscience, Sarah Butt, Varunie Abeywardana, Wellcome Trust | Leave a comment

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