Census of church membership and attendance (2217)

Type of Data: Census of church membership and attendance (2217)

Faith Community: Christianity

Date: 1979, November-1980, February

Geography: England

Sample Size: 15000 (39% response)

Population: Trinitarian Christian churches

Keywords: Church attendance, churchgoing, church membership, midweek meetings, Sunday school

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: Bible Society Research Department

Sponsor: Nationwide Initiative in Evangelism

Survey Instrument: Clive Douglas Field, 'Non-Recurrent Christian Data', Religion, Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol. 20, ed. Wynne Frederick Maunder, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987, pp. 488-9

Published Source:

Prospects for the Eighties: From a Census of the Churches in 1979 Undertaken by the Nationwide Initiative in Evangelism, London: Bible Society, 1980

Peter Brierley, 'Greater London', Church Growth Digest, Spring 1982, pp. 14-17, 22

Prospects for the Eighties, Volume Two: From a Census of the Churches in 1979 Undertaken by the Nationwide Initiative in Evangelism, London: MARC Europe, 1983

BRIN ID: 2217

Remarks:

For a critique of the census, see Clive Douglas Field, ‘Non-Recurrent Christian Data’, Religion, Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol. 20, ed. Wynne Frederick Maunder, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987, pp. 193-4, 237-8

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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