Level of interest in and approval for the papal visit to Britain, and reports of seeing any of the events in person or on television; importance attached to following God’s will and taking part in church-related activities (2138)

Type of Data: Level of interest in and approval for the papal visit to Britain, and reports of seeing any of the events in person or on television; importance attached to following God’s will and taking part in church-related activities (2138)

Faith Community: General, Christianity (Roman Catholic Church)

Date: 1982, 30 June-5 July

Geography: Great Britain. Part of multinational survey

Sample Size: 936

Population: Adults aged 16 and over

Keywords: Anti-Catholicism, church activities, church attendance, churchgoing, God, importance of God, John Paul II, papal visit, Pope, prejudice, religious affiliation, television

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll)

Sponsor: Sunday Telegraph

Published Source:

Sunday Telegraph, 11 July 1982

Gallup Political Index, No. 263, July 1982, p. 20

Index to International Public Opinion, 1982-1983, eds. Elizabeth Hann Hastings and Philip K. Hastings, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 478-9

BRIN ID: 2138

Remarks:

Multinational survey (in part), also undertaken in the United States. Dataset available at the Roper Center as GBSSLT82-CQ824

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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