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  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: Census of church and Sunday school attendance (2540)

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)

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)

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

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

Source: Census of Sunday schools and Sunday scholars (2536)

Source: Religious affiliation, religious practice, and the importance assigned to the Government maintaining separate Roman Catholic schools (2280)

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 681

Source: Religious affiliation and party political allegiance (2279)

Datasets available at ESDS as SN 659 and the Roper Center as GBSSLT74-GE2601

Source: Religious affiliation, membership and practice, during childhood and currently; role of religion in family and friendship networks and in the community (2278)

Dataset available at ESDS as SN 714

Source: Self-assessed religiosity, the importance attached to spiritual matters, belief in God and an afterlife, and churchgoing (2277)