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Posted on January 4, 2010 by admin

  Welcome to the blog section of BRIN – newly integrated into the main site. This section of the site reports on new releases of religious data. It will also flag up interesting new publications, policy reports or news stories using … Continue reading →

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Source: Censuses of churchgoing (2545)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The censuses were mainly conducted by Liberal-and Nonconformist-leaning newspapers. In addition to surveying churchgoing, some censuses also collected information about sittings and Sunday scholars. For a fuller discussion of the varying methodologies, and a complete list of the 142 places … Continue reading →

Source: Census of church accommodation (2544)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Some returns also included details of estimated or average attendances. A similar census of religious accommodation in London had been conducted in 1865; see The Nonconformist, 15 November 1865

Source: Census of weekday and Sunday schools, with the number of scholars by gender and age, and of teachers by gender and remuneration, together with details of income and expenditure (2543)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

More detailed enquiries were also made in 10 specimen districts through a team of assistant commissioners

Source: Census of weekday and Sunday schools supported by religious bodies, with their dates of establishment and income, the number and gender of pupils on the books and in attendance on census day, and the number, gender and remuneration of teachers (2542)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The original returns from the 1851 education census have not survived

Source: Census of places of worship and sittings, and of church and Sunday school attendance; cost and funding of Anglican churches and livings (2541)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The original returns from the 1851 religious census have only survived for England and Wales (not for Scotland), and then with some gaps. The published literature on the census is substantial, and only a proportion is referenced here. Further works … Continue reading →

Source: Census of church and Sunday school attendance (2540)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Returns were received for 392 parishes distributed across all 12 Welsh counties and incorporating 47% of their population

Source: Census of places of worship, communicants, hearers and Sunday scholars (2539)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

See the comments on the accuracy of the survey in Clive Douglas Field, ‘Non-Recurrent Christian Data’, Religion, Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol. 20, ed. Wynne Frederick Maunder, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987, p. 236

Source: Census of Sunday schools and scholars by gender; census of weekday schools confined to the education of the children of Church of England parents or those of other religious bodies and the number of scholars therein (2538)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Source: Return of places of worship not of the Church of England and of adherents connected with them (2537)

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The original returns for this survey do not survive, having apparently been lost in the fire which destroyed the Palace of Westminster in 1834; however, duplicate local returns for at least 15 counties can be found in county record offices, … Continue reading →