Category Archives: Survey news

Taking Part in England

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The Taking Part in England survey is a large survey of cultural and leisure participation in England, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The first was fielded in July 2005 and it has been run annually since then. The current collection agency is BMRB Social Research, which operates the survey via face-to-face interview. Continue reading →

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Bible Reading and Bible Origins

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Spring 2010 issue of Word in Action, the Bible Society’s magazine, contains an article by Jennie Pollock entitled ‘Positive Vibes for Bible’. This sets out the headline findings of a recent opinion poll commissioned by Theos, the public theology … Continue reading →

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Do Aliens Walk the Earth?

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Who believes that aliens live among us? Quite a lot of us, apparently, according to a Thomson Reuters News Service poll released on 8 April. It was conducted by Ipsos, between 4 November 2009 and 13 January 2010, in 22 … Continue reading →

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National Churches Trust Survey [Updated]

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The National Churches Trust (NCT) has recently issued a press release to announce the imminent launch, on 15 April, of a questionnaire-based survey of all 47,000 Christian places of worship in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is intended … Continue reading →

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Religious Easter

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

It is a little after the event, but there does appear to have been one opinion poll this Easter which took the pulse of religiosity. It was conducted online on 1-2 April by YouGov among a representative sample of 1,503 … Continue reading →

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Sunday Trading

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Easter may have only just been and gone, but the minds of many large-scale retailers in England and Wales are already on the Christmas season. Specifically, they are focused on the fact that Boxing Day this year will fall on … Continue reading →

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Secular Easter

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Easter may be the holy of holies in the Christian calendar, but for most of us it is little more than a longish secular holiday, moderately ruined in many years (including 2010) by indifferent weather. International Christendom still cannot agree … Continue reading →

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Spring Harvest

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Ever since its foundation in 1979, Spring Harvest has been one of the highlights of the British evangelical calendar. Its ‘Main Event’ is an interdenominational and all-age residential gathering of Bible teaching, (modern) worship, workshops, relaxation and equipping the Church … Continue reading →

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Christians and the Irreligious Compared

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

One of the interesting by-products of the ICM Research poll of 10-11 March 2010 on religion in public life is the insight which it provides into some of the differences between professing Christians and those of no religion (the sub-samples … Continue reading →

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Religion in Public Life – Another Poll

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

You can really tell that a general election is in the offing, and possibly even that Britain is emerging from recession. Certainly, there seems a greater willingness these days for lobbyists to afford the expense of testing public opinion on … Continue reading →

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