Tag Archives: Methodology

British Cohort Study + Fostering

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Our main story in today’s round-up of religious statistical news features initial findings from the current wave of one of the few genuinely longitudinal studies covering religion in this country, which further illustrates some of the methodological challenges involved in framing … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Measuring religion, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged afterlife, Alice Sullivan, BCS70, British Cohort Study, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, church attendance, David Voas, Economic and Social Research Council, foster children, foster parents, fostering, God, Institute of Education, inter-religious fostering, life after death, Matt Brown, Methodology, question-wording, Religious Affiliation, religious upbringing, Rotherham, TNS-BMRB, YouGov | 1 Comment

Christian Smith on research into religion: repositioning scholarly journal articles

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

A summary of Christian Smith’s paper, ‘Five Proposals for Reforming (Especially Quantitative) Journal Article Publishing Practices in the Sociology of Religion toward Improving the Quality, Value, and Cumulativeness of Our Scholarship’. Continue reading →

Posted in Other | Tagged Causality, Christian Smith, Methodology, Missing Data, Response Rate, Scholarly publishing, Statistical Significance | Leave a comment

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Christian Smith on research into religion: repositioning scholarly journal articles

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