Census of membership and attendance in the Religious Society of Friends, and appointments held in Monthly Meetings (2586)

Type of Data: Census of membership and attendance in the Religious Society of Friends, and appointments held in Monthly Meetings (2586)

Faith Community: Christianity (Religious Society of Friends)

Date: 2006, 7 May

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 65 Monthly Meetings (90% response), 390 Preparative Meetings/other worshipping groups (82% response)

Population: Monthly Meetings and Preparative Meetings/other worshipping groups

Keywords: Appointments, attenders, business meetings, church attendance, churchgoing, meetings for worship, membership, non-members, Quakers

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: Religious Society of Friends

Survey Instrument: Chadkirk, ‘Patterns of Membership and Participation’, pp. xi-xvi

Published Source:

James William Croan Chadkirk and Ben Pink Dandelion, 'Present and Prevented: A Survey of Membership Activity in Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)', Quaker Studies, Vol. 12, 2007-08, pp. 253-63

James William Croan Chadkirk, ‘Patterns of Membership and Participation among British Quakers, 1823-2012’, University of Birmingham MPhil thesis, 2014, pp. 81-103, 154-82, xi-xvi

BRIN ID: 2586

Remarks:

The survey was replicated in 2008 and 2010.

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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