Author Archives: Ben Clements

Religion and voting at the 2015 general election

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Ben Clements

The British Election Study 2015 recently released the dataset for wave 6 of their panel study, the fieldwork for which was undertaken immediately after the general election on 7 May (conducted between 8-26 May). This post looks at voting behaviour at the general election based on religious belonging, looking at the picture for Britain overall and then separately for Scotland and Wales. Continue reading →

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Socio-Demographic Groups and Religious Affiliation in Britain

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Ben Clements

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) issued an interesting online press release on the 31st May, entitled ‘Church of England decline has accelerated in past decade’. The press release set out some of the main developments in religious affiliation … Continue reading →

Posted in Research note, Survey news | Tagged Anglicans, Belonging, British Social Attitudes Surveys, NatCen Social Research, Religious affilation, Religious change, Survey Data | 1 Comment

The 2015 General Election: Religious Affiliation and Party Vote Share Across Constituencies

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Ben Clements

As the weekend round-up of religious news on BRIN flagged up, the British Election Study (BES) 2015 has released the first version of the 2015 general election results dataset. This dataset (and the accompanying documentation) can be obtained here. Across … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Research note, Survey news | Tagged British Election Study 2015, General Election 2015, Party Choice, Religion and Politics, Religious Affiliation, religious belonging, Survey Data | Leave a comment

Religion and Political Attitudes: The British Election Study 2015, Internet Panel – Wave 4

Posted on May 9, 2015 by Ben Clements

This post provides a summary of findings relating to religion and political attitudes, based on a selection of questions taken from Wave 4 of the BES 2015 internet panel study (fieldwork was conducted online between 6-13 March 2015). The analysis is … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Research note | Tagged British Election Study, equal opportunities, left-right scale, libertarian-authoritarian, party identification, redistribution scale, Religious Affiliation, welfare | Leave a comment

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

Author Archives: Ben Clements

Religion and voting at the 2015 general election

The 2015 General Election: Religious Affiliation and Party Vote Share Across Constituencies

Religion and Political Attitudes: The British Election Study 2015, Internet Panel – Wave 4

Public attitudes towards women bishops

The British Election Study 2015: Religious affiliation and attitudes

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