Census of religious affiliation (1342)
Type of Data: Census of religious affiliation (1342)
Faith Community: General
Date: 2001, 29 April
Geography: Great Britain
Sample Size: 52815208
Population: Whole population
Keywords: Religious affiliation
Collection Method: Self-completion questionnaire
Collection Agency: Office for National Statistics (ONS) and General Register Office for Scotland
Published Source:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census.aspJohn Dixie, 'The Ethnic and Religious Questions for 2001: Research and Responses', Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 32, 1998, pp. 5-14Joanna Rachel Southworth, 'The Religious Question: Representing Reality or Compounding Confusion?', Statistics in Society: The Arithmetic of Politics, eds Daniel Dorling and Leslie Simpson, London: Arnold, 1998, pp. 132-9UK Christian Handbook: Religious Trends, No. 4, 2003/2004, ed. Peter William Brierley, London: Christian Research, 2003, pp. 4.1-4.10Leslie John Francis, 'Religion and Social Capital: The Flaw in the 2001 Census in England and Wales', Public Faith? The State of Religious Belief and Practice in Britain, ed. Paul Avis, London: SPCK, 2003, pp. 45-64Paul Weller, 'Identity, Politics and the Future(s) of Religion in the UK: The Case of the Religion Questions in the 2001 Decennial Census', Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 19, 2004, pp. 3-21Marlena Schmool, 'British Jewry in 2001: First Impressions from the Censuses', Jewish Year Book, 2004, pp. xx-xxxiDavid Voas and Steve Bruce, 'The 2001 Census and Christian Identification in Britain', Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 19, 2004, pp. 23-8Robert Bluck, ‘Buddhism and Ethnicity in Britain: The 2001 Census Data’, Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 5, 2004, pp. 90-6Joanna Rachel Southworth, 'Religion in the 2001 Census for England and Wales', Population, Space and Place, Vol. 11, 2005, pp. 75-88David Graham and Stanley Waterman, 'Underenumeration of the Jewish Population in the UK 2001 Census', Population, Space and Place, Vol. 11, 2005, pp. 89-102Baljit Bains, Religious Diversity Indices, London: Greater London Authority, 2005Office of the Chief Statistician [of Scotland], Analysis of Religion in the 2001 Census: Summary Report, Edinburgh: Scottish Executive, 2005Michael Pacione, 'The Geography of Religious Affiliation in Scotland', Professional Geographer, Vol. 57, 2005, pp. 235-55Ceri Peach, 'Britain's Muslim Population: An Overview', Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure, ed. Tahir Abbas, London: Zed Books, 2005, pp. 18-30Ceri Peach, 'The United Kingdom: A Major Transformation of the Religious Landscape', The Changing Religious Landscape of Europe, ed. Hans Knippenberg, Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2005, pp. 44-58David Voas, 'Religious Decline in Scotland: New Evidence on Timing and Spatial Patterns', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 45, 2006, pp. 107-18Office for National Statistics, Focus on Ethnicity and Religion, 2006 Edition, eds. Joy Dobbs, Hazel Green and Linda Zealey, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006James A. Beckford, Richard Gale, David Owen, Ceri Peach, and Paul Weller, Review of the Evidence Base on Faith Communities, London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2006Ceri Peach, 'Muslims in the 2001 Census of England and Wales: Gender and Economic Disadvantage', Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 29, 2006, pp. 629-55Ceri Peach, 'Islam, Ethnicity and South Asian Religions in the London 2001 Census', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 31, 2006, pp. 353-70Gareth Piggott and Rob Lewis, 2001 Census Profile: The Jewish Population of London, London: Greater London Authority, 2006Muslims in London, London: Greater London Authority, 2006Baljit Bains and Fara Dadabhoy, Key Facts for Diverse Communities: Ethnicity and Faith, London: Greater London Authority, 2007David Graham, Marlena Schmool and Stanley Waterman, Jews in Britain: A Snapshot From the 2001 Census, London: Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 2007David Voas, 'Estimating the Jewish Undercount in the 2001 Census: A Comment on Graham and Waterman', Population, Space and Place, Vol. 13, 2007, pp. 401-7David Graham and Stanley Waterman, 'Locating Jews by Ethnicity: A Reply to D. Voas', Population, Space and Place, Vol. 13, 2007, pp. 409-14Marlena Schmool, Scotland's Jews, Glasgow: Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, 2008Serena Hussain, Muslims on the Map: A National Survey of Social Trends in Britain, London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008Nabil Khattab, 'Ethno-Religious Background as a Determinant of Educational and Occupational Attainment in Britain', Sociology, Vol. 43, 2009, pp. 304-22Michael Pacione, ‘The Geography of Religious Affiliation in Glasgow’, Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 26, 2009, pp. 369-91David Voas, ‘The Maintenance and Transformation of Ethnicity: Evidence on Mixed Partnerships in Britain’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 35, 2009, pp. 1497-1513Jamil Sherif, 'A Census Chronicle: Reflections on the Campaign for a Religion Question in the 2001 Census for England and Wales', Journal of Beliefs and Values, Vol. 32, 2011, pp. 1-18David Graham, 'Enumerating Britain's Jewish Population: Reassessing the 2001 Census in the Context of One Hundred Years of Indirect Estimates', Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. 53, 2011, pp. 7-28David Voas and Siobhan McAndrew, 'Three Puzzles of Non-Religion in Britain', Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 27, 2012, pp. 29-48Nabil Khattab, Ibrahim Sirkeci, Ron Johnston and Tariq Modood, 'Ethnicity, Religion, Residential Segregation and Life Chances', Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness, eds Tariq Modood and John Salt, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 153-76M. A. Kevin Brice, 'Counting the Converts: Investigating Change of Religion in Scotland and Estimating Change in Religion in England and Wales Using Data from Scotland's Census, 2001', DISKUS: The Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2014, pp. 45-69M. A. Kevin Brice, ‘Counting the Converts: Using Data from Scotland’s Census 2001 to Provide a Quantitative Description of Conversion away from Islam’, in Y. Suleiman, ed., Muslims in the UK and Europe, I, Cambridge: Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2015, pp. 57–66
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