Category Archives: Religion in public debate

Ipsos Global @dvisor Surveys Religion

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Forced to choose, no fewer than 71% of Britons contend that ‘religious beliefs promote intolerance, exacerbate ethnic divisions, and impede social progress in developing and developed nations alike’. Only 29% say the polar opposite, that ‘religion provides the common values … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged afterlife, Creationism, evolution, force for good, force for ill, God, heaven, hell, Ipsos Global @dvisor, life after death, Munk Debates on Religion, origins of human life, reincarnation, Reuters News, supreme being | 1 Comment

Health Benefits of Christian Faith

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘In contrast to the popular myth that Christian faith is bad for health … published research suggests that faith is associated with longer life and a wide range of health benefits. In particular, faith is associated with improved mental health. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate | Tagged Alex Bunn, Christian Medical Fellowship, David Randall, health outcomes | 1 Comment

Amending the Act of Settlement

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Last Friday’s royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, has rekindled public debate on Britain’s monarchical succession laws. Attention has mostly focused on the primogeniture rule, a throw-back to feudal times, whereby … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Act of Settlement, anti-Catholicism, law of succession, monarchy, Roman Catholics, royals, Sunday Times, YouGov | 2 Comments

Does Christianity Have A Future?

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Siobhan McAndrew

BRIN readers who happen to catch this post before 10.25pm this evening (Sunday 17 April) may be interested in tonight’s programme, DOES CHRISTIANITY HAVE A FUTURE? on BBC1. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press | Tagged Ann Widdecombe, David Voas | 2 Comments

Britain as a Christian Country

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The recent census question on religion sparked some debate about the persistence of cultural Christianity. That phenomenon can be defined both at the level of the individual and in terms of national character – whether Britain remains a ‘Christian country’. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged atheism, Christian Concern, Christian country, ComRes, equality | Leave a comment

British Muslims and the Police

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Taken as a whole, Muslims in England and Wales express higher levels of trust and confidence in the police than do the general population, notwithstanding the fact that they report crime and disorder impacts more negatively upon them than society … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Association of Chief Police Officers, British Crime Survey, Cardiff University, Colin Roberts, community cohesion, crime, Helen Innes, Martin Innes, Muslims, police, policing, PREVENT, Universities' Police Science Institute | 1 Comment

Group-Focused Enmity in Europe

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Fresh light on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Britain is shed in a report published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Berlin on 11 March 2011. Entitled Intolerance, Prejudice and Discrimination: A European Report, it is written by Andreas Zick, Beate Kupper and … Continue reading →

Posted in Measuring religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Alliance Publishing Trust, Andreas Hovermann, Andreas Zick, Anti-Semitism, Beate Kupper, Bielefeld Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, holocaust, Islam, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Muslims, Palestinians, prejudice, self-assessed religiosity, terrorism, TNS, women | Leave a comment

Census Day

Posted on March 27, 2011 by David Voas

The census manages to evoke contrary responses: it’s either a bit of a joke or a threat to civil liberty. I’ll address the objections in a moment, but let’s start with the jolly part.
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Posted in Measuring religion, Official data, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press | Tagged Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Census 2011, Data Security, David Voas, Religious Affiliation | Leave a comment

Catholics in Scottish Prisons

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Roman Catholics continue to be overrepresented in Scotland’s prison population, but the situation appears to be improving slowly. Catholics accounted for 28% of Scottish prisoners in 2001, 24% in 2006 and 23% in 2008-09, whereas they constituted 16% of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate | Tagged crime, deprivation, prisoners, prisons, Roman Catholics, Scottish Parliament, sectarianism, Susan Wiltshire, Tom Minogue | 1 Comment

Census Snippets

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Combined household and individual questionnaires for the 2011 population census have been dropping on doormats all week in preparation for the official enumeration date of Sunday, 27 March. They can be completed on paper or online. This will be the … Continue reading →

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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/…

2 responses to “Census Snippets”

Yewtree

July 13, 2012

Is there any chance that you could post a listing of the breakdown of religious affiliation from the census? The Office of National Statistics did this immediately after the 2001 census had been counted, but then they took it down – making it difficult to ascertain properly the numbers of Pagans.
Clive Field

July 13, 2012

We do have a table of affiliation from the 2001 census for England and Wales, broken down by region. You will find pagans listed at line 156. See:

http://www.brin.ac.uk/wp-content/documents/Table-2-2-Religious-Census-Britain-2001.xls