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Counting Religion in Britain, February 2020

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 53, February 2020 features 24 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 53 February 2020 … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, April 2019

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 43, April 2019 features 21 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 43 April 2019 … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, March 2019

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 42, March 2019 features 15 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 42 March 2019 … Continue reading →

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Religion and the British Social Attitudes 2016 Survey

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Ben Clements

The British Social Attitudes (BSA) 2016 survey dataset has been released via the UKDS. This post updates the long-term religious data available from the BSA surveys. Figure 1 charts the data on affiliation for the period 1983-2016. Key features include … Continue reading →

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Counting Religion in Britain, January 2017

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Clive D. Field

Counting Religion in Britain, No. 16, January 2017 features 22 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 16 January 2017 OPINION POLLS Faith Research Centre The major polling news of … Continue reading →

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Religion and the British Social Attitudes 2015 Survey

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Ben Clements

The British Social Attitudes (BSA) 2015 survey dataset was released recently and this post provides a brief analysis of long-running data on religion available from the BSA surveys. It focuses on religious affiliation, religion of upbringing and religious attendance. Firstly, Figure 1 reports the … Continue reading →

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Exploring Religious Data in the British Social Attitudes 2014 Survey

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Ben Clements

The latest British Social Attitudes 2014 survey has recently been released via the UKDS, which holds all of the other surveys in the BSA series (as well as the data having being added to the online British Social Attitudes Information System). This … Continue reading →

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Religion and Attitudes Towards Faith Schools

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Ben Clements

The expansion of faith schools in recent years, as part of a broader parental choice and diversity of provision agenda in state-sector education, has been a prominent and divisive issue, both within religious traditions and between religious and secular lobbies. … Continue reading →

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Recent Journal Articles and Other News

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Clive D. Field

As well as carrying the usual miscellany of news, this post reports on a selection of recent articles in academic journals which may be of interest to BRIN users. We give a URL for each, in line with our standard … Continue reading →

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Changes in Attendance at Religious Services in Britain

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Ben Clements

This BRIN post takes a historical perspective on religious attendance in Britain, looking at nationally-representative survey data covering the past three decades. Attendance is a common indicator of what sociologists of religion term ‘behaving’, often analysed alongside religious ‘belonging’ and … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Research note, Survey news | Tagged Age, Behaving, Belonging, British Social Attitudes Surveys, church attendance, religious attendance, Religious change, Survey Data | 2 Comments

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