Category Archives: Official data

Scottish Social Attitudes Discrimination Module

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The level of religious prejudice in Scotland in 2010 was much the same as in 2006, notwithstanding significant legislative and other activities to counter it by both the UK and Scottish Governments during the intervening years. Moreover, Scottish attitudes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Official data, Survey news | Tagged acquaintances, banks, Christians, crucifixes, discrimination, employment, Equality and Human Rights Commission (Scotland), headscarves, Hindus, identity, Islamophobia, Jews, John Curtice, marriage, Muslims, primary school teachers, Rachel Ormston, relationships, religious dress, religious prejudice, ScotCen, Scotland, Scottish Centre for Social Research, Scottish Government, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Sikhs, Susan McConville, Susan Reid, turbans, veils | Leave a comment

English Baccalaureate and Faith Schools

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A Government press release on 31 August trumpeted that its controversial introduction of the English Baccalaureate (or eBacc) has had an immediate impact on reversing the historic decline in pupils taking ‘traditional’ or more ‘academic’ GCSE subjects. And nowhere does … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Department for Education, EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, GCSEs, General Certificate of Secondary Education, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, religious education, religious studies, Sam Clemens | Leave a comment

Taking Part, 2010-11

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Clive D. Field

My colleague Siobhan McAndrew introduced BRIN users to the Taking Part surveys in her post on 12 April 2010. See: http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=172 These studies have been running continuously in England since 2005, with fieldwork by TNS-BMRB on behalf of the Department … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged culture, Department for Culture Media and Sport, heritage, leisure, Religious Affiliation, Religious Practice, sport, Taking Part, TNS-BMRB | Leave a comment

Religious Studies GCSEs, 2011

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There was a 17.6% increase in the number of candidates sitting the full course GCSE in Religious Studies (RS) in June 2011, compared with the summer before, according to results released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications, and covering … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Joint Council for Qualifications, public examinations, qualifications, religious studies | Leave a comment

Religious Studies A Levels, 2011

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There were 4.9% more UK candidates sitting A Level Religious Studies (RS) in June 2011 than in 2010, but the proportion of them getting A* and A grades was 2.1% down, according to data released today (18 August) by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged A Levels, AS Levels, Joint Council for Qualifications, public examinations, qualifications, religious studies | 2 Comments

National Student Survey

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There is a very wide variation in the satisfaction of full-time final-year undergraduate students with the quality of the teaching of first degrees in theology and religious studies at UK universities. This is according to results from the National Student … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged higher education, Ipsos-MORI, National Student Survey, Research Assessment Exercise, student satisfaction | Leave a comment

National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Religion is already a major component of the Big Society, even on a narrow definition, and without taking full account of the wider contribution of faith communities to the development of the country’s social capital. For example, 19% of charities … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged advancement of religion, Big Society, Cabinet Office, charities, Ipsos-MORI, National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises, National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, Office for Civil Society, social enterprises, voluntary organizations | Leave a comment

Participation in Higher Education and Religion

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs more likely to go to university than their Christian classmates’, proclaimed the headline to Richard Vaughan’s article in The TES for 22 July 2011. The story was subsequently picked up by the Daily Telegraph on 23 … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged A Levels, Christians, Department for Education, educational attainment, ethnicity, GCSEs, higher education, Hindus, Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, LSYPE, Muslims, Richard Vaughan, sex, Sikhs, Steve Strand, TES, Times Educational Supplement | Leave a comment

Religion of Prisoners – England and Wales, 2010

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

32% of prisoners in England and Wales on 30 June 2010 professed no religion, the identical figure to March 2000, although the prison population had increased by 30% during the course of the decade. The proportion of irreligious did not … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged Ministry of Justice, Muslims, Offender Management Caseload Statistics, prisoners, Religious Affiliation, Roman Catholics | 1 Comment

British Muslim Students’ Experience of Higher Education

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Clive D. Field

British Muslim students get comparatively low A Level grades, overwhelmingly enter post-1992 universities (former polytechnics), live at the parental home during term-time, and are decreasingly satisfied with the quality of the higher education which they receive. These conclusions emerge from … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged A Levels, Aftab Dean, Bangladeshis, business schools, higher education, Muslims, National Student Survey, Pakistanis, Steve Probert, university students | 1 Comment

Dear Paul Thank you very much indeed for your kind words. I shall continue to pursue my own personal research…

Thank you for all your hard work on this important service which will be greatly missed, but all the best…

Thank you for your diligence in unearthing broken links on the site. Regarding religious profession of prisoners, there were surveys…

1) FYI. There is an incorrect link to a spreadsheet on the page here: https://www.brin.ac.uk/figures/belief-in-britain-1939-2009/conventional-belief/belief-in-god-divinity-of-christ-and-the-resurrection/. The spreadsheet is for "Belief…

Dear Colin I am sorry that you have experienced difficulties in getting data from the site. Please go to www.brin.ac.uk/figures/churches-and-churchgoers/…

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