State of religion in Rawmarsh and Scunthorpe, including censuses of church and Sunday school attendance by denomination, gender, age and social class, and religious life-histories of active church members (2436)

Type of Data: State of religion in Rawmarsh and Scunthorpe, including censuses of church and Sunday school attendance by denomination, gender, age and social class, and religious life-histories of active church members (2436)

Faith Community: Christianity

Date: 1954-1956 (with censuses of church attendance at Scunthorpe on 4, 11 and 18 April 1954 and Rawmarsh on 27 March, 3 and 10 April 1955)

Geography: Local survey. Rawmarsh (Yorkshire) and Scunthorpe (Lincolnshire)

Sample Size: 26,752 churchgoers over three Sundays, 379 church members, 666 day school pupils

Population: Churchgoers, church members and day school pupils aged 10-11

Keywords: Children, church attendance, churchgoing, church members, Rawmarsh, religious affiliation, Scunthorpe, Sunday school

Collection Method: Censuses of church attendance, face-to-face interview (church members) and self-completion questionnaire (day school pupils)

Collection Agency: William Stuart Frederick Pickering

Published Source:

William Stuart Frederick Pickering, 'Children Pose the Problems', Christian News-Letter, Vol. 5, No. 4, October 1957, pp. 24-8

William Stuart Frederick Pickering, 'The Place of Religion in the Social Structure of Two English Industrial Towns (Rawmarsh, Yorkshire and Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire)', University of London Ph.D. thesis, 1958

William Stuart Frederick Pickering, 'Quelques résultats d'interviews religieuses', Vocation de la sociologie religieuse: Sociologie des vocations, Tournai: Casterman, 1958, pp. 54-76

William Stuart Frederick Pickering, '"Religious Movements" of Church Members in Two Working-Class Towns in England', Archives de Sociologie des Religions, No. 11, 1961, pp. 129-40

BRIN ID: 2436

Remarks:

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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