Tag Archives: Survey Data

Public attitudes towards women bishops

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Ben Clements

Given important recent developments in the long-running debate on the issue of women bishops in the Church of England, this post provides a brief review of topline and group attitudes using recent data from opinion polls. Several polls on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged Behaving, believing, Belonging, Church of England, ComRes, gender equality, opinion polls, Opinium Research, ordination of women, public debate, religious belonging, Survey Data, women bishops, women clergy, YouGov | Leave a comment

Roman Catholics’ Attitudes Towards Homosexuality

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Ben Clements

There has been some media coverage of the deliberations of the Roman Catholic Church at its Extraordinary Synod on the Family held in Rome earlier this month, including in a recent BRIN post. The issue of the Catholic Church’s position on homosexuality … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, Religion in public debate, Research note | Tagged British Social Attitudes Surveys, Gallup, gay rights, gays, homosexuality, homosexuals, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships, Social Surveys, Survey Data | Leave a comment

The British Election Study 2015: Religious affiliation and attitudes

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Ben Clements

This second post, based on analysis of the British Election Study (BES) 2015, looks at selected attitudes of religious groups in Britain. Two waves of panel data (conducted in, respectively, February-March 2014 and April-June 2014) have so far been made … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news | Tagged 2005 Election, 2010 Election, British Election Studies, British Election Study 2015, equality, gay rights, gender equality, lesbian gay and bisexual people, Political Attitudes, political parties, racial equality, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Survey Data, voting, Voting Behaviour, voting intention | 1 Comment

The British Election Study 2015: Religious affiliation

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Ben Clements

This post analyses the contemporary social make-up of religious belonging in Britain using data released as part of the latest British Election Study (BES), focusing on the 2015 general election. Two waves of panel data (conducted in, respectively, February-March 2014 … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Research note, Survey news | Tagged British Election Studies, British Election Study 2015, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, social, Survey Data | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news, Uncategorized | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, education, Faith schools, Religion, Religion and Politics, religious attendance, religious belonging, self-assessed religiosity, Survey Data | Leave a comment

Religious Attitudes Towards Gay Rights in 2013

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Ben Clements

This post looks at religious groups’ views on gay rights and related issues based on newly-released data from the British Social Attitudes 2013 survey. The 2013 survey asked various questions on this topic, some of which were carried in earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Research note, Survey news | Tagged Anglicans, Belonging, British Social Attitudes Survey, Christians, gay rights, homosexuality, no religion, Other Religions, Religious Affiliation, Roman Catholics, same-sex marriage, same-sex relationships, Social Surveys, Survey Data, tolerance | Leave a comment

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

Religion and attitudes towards euthanasia in Britain: Evidence from opinion polls and social surveys

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Ben Clements

The issue of euthanasia or assisted dying formed the basis of one of the 2013 Westminster Faith Debates on religion and personal morality. An accompanying survey of adults in Britain – conducted by YouGov in January 2013 – found that … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news | Tagged British Social Attitudes Survey, end of life, European Values Study, euthanasia, opinion polls, public, Social Surveys, Survey Data | 1 Comment

Reflections on Surveying Religion Online: Perils and Promise?

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Gladys Ganiel

I presented the results of my surveys of religion on the island of Ireland this weekend at the annual conference of the Sociological Association of Ireland (May 7-9, 2010 at Queen’s University in Belfast). All three of the papers presented were about religion, and all three utilized quantitative data of some sort. Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion | Tagged church attendance, Content Analysis, Ecumenism, Immigration, Ireland, John Brewer, Online Surveys, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Reconciliation, Religious Belief, Survey Data, Survey Methods, Write-In Responses | 1 Comment

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