Religious affiliation and religious practice; importance of religion in defining personal identity and in everyday life; perceptions and experience of racial and religious prejudice; mixing between different religious groups; satisfaction with Government in protecting the rights of different religious groups; charitable giving and volunteering in connection with religion (2811)

Type of Data: Religious affiliation and religious practice; importance of religion in defining personal identity and in everyday life; perceptions and experience of racial and religious prejudice; mixing between different religious groups; satisfaction with Government in protecting the rights of different religious groups; charitable giving and volunteering in connection with religion (2811)

Faith Community: General

Date: 2008, April-2009, March

Geography: England and Wales

Sample Size: 14917 including an ethnic minority booster sample of 5582

Population: Adults aged 16 and over

Keywords: Anglicans, anti-Semitism, Britishness, Buddhists, charitable giving, Christians, church attendance, church collection, churchgoing, citizenship, civic engagement, community cohesion, courts, Crown Prosecution Service, discrimination, doctor's surgeries, employment, ethnic minorities, freedom of religion, friends, Government, Hindus, hospitals, importance of religion, integration, Islam, Islamophobia, Jews, job, local councils, Muslims, places of worship, police, prejudice, prison service, probation service, Protestants, public service organizations, racial prejudice, religious affiliation, religious beliefs, religious differences, religious discrimination, religious groups, religious harassment, religious identity, religious organizations, religious practice, religious prejudice, respect, rights, Roman Catholics, schools, Sikhs, social mixing, volunteering, work

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: National Centre for Social Research (NatCen)

Sponsor: Department for Communities and Local Government

Published Source:

Cheryl Lloyd, 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Community Cohesion Topic Report, London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2010

Eleanor Taylor and Natalie Low, 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Empowered Communities Topic Report, London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2010

Emma Drever, 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Volunteering and Charitable Giving Topic Report, London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2010

Chris Ferguson and David Hussey, 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Race, Religion and Equalities Topic Report, London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2010

http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=71

http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=268

http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=564

Lucinda Platt, 'Exploring Social Spaces of Muslims', Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space, eds Waqar Ihsan-Ullah Ahmad and Ziauddin Sardar, London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 53-83

Saffron Karlsen and James Y. Nazroo, ‘Ethnic and Religious Variations in the Reporting of Racist Victimization in Britain, 2000 and 2008/2009’, Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 48, 2014, pp. 370-97

Saffron Karlsen and James Y. Nazroo, ‘Ethnic and Religious Differences in the Attitudes of People towards Being “British”’, Sociological Review, Vol. 63, 2015, pp. 759-81

BRIN ID: 2811

Remarks:

Citizenship Survey, 2008-09. Dataset available at UKDA as SN 6388.

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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