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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One response to “On the Seventh Day”
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With Nigel Nelson’s generous assistance, I have been looking into this poll further since writing the post for BRIN. It turns out that, despite several explicit statements in THE PEOPLE article to the effect that this was a survey of the newspaper’s readers, the poll involved a general and representative sample of 2,000 adults aged 18 and over throughout the UK. Fieldwork was conducted online by OnePoll. So, I can now say with the benefit of hindsight that all the statistics quoted in my post actually related to the UK population as a whole and not to the readership of THE PEOPLE. I can also report that Nigel has a second article offering additional analysis of the survey, with special reference to churchgoing, on page E2 of THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND NEWSPAPER for 2 March 2012.
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Surveyitis and Other News
Today’s digest of religious statistical news highlights a thought-provoking blog about ‘surveyitis’ by the Director of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society programme, as well as headline findings from two actual surveys, among evangelicals and adult learners. A bad case of … Continue reading →