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8 responses to “YouGov@Cambridge on Religion”
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[…] absolutely indispensable British Religion in Numbers (BRIN) website have a breakdown of religious stats based on the 2011 census and compiled by YouGov […]
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Very useful, but I don’t understand how you got to your conclusion. The results here could easily be interpreted as an uptick in those claiming a religious affiliation, for example when compared with the results of the British Social Attitudes Survey. It is obviously quite difficult to compare the results of different surveys, but nevertheless, in this survey 60% claimed a religious affiliation, which is quite high compared with some surveys.
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Benita Hewitt
(Good to see you here Church Mouse – hope you’re enjoying your time off from blogging!)
I also have an issue with the comment that religion is becoming increasingly nominal. Looking at the ‘religious’ 55+ age group, 74% have a religion but only 45% pray at least once a month. With the 35-54s 59% claim to have a religion, but only 40% pray at least once a month and 33% never pray. But look at the ‘less religious’ 18-34s – only 47% have a religion but 43% pray at least once a month and nearly 70% pray at some point.
Also look at attending a place of worship – 11% of 18-24s attend at least once a month (with only 47% having a religion) and 14% of 55+ attend at least once a month (with 74% having a religion).
Is there a case here for stating that younger religious people are far less nominal than those over 55? And that we will see nominalism decline in future?
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Benita Hewitt
Minor correction – it’s 43% of the total sample that pray at least once a month, and 41% of 18-34s. The point remains the same – the younger people are far less nominal than the older (if we assume that those who pray are largely those who have a religion).
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JD
I hadn’t spotted that Benita, but now you say it, it does correlate with what I’ve thought for some time. Many of the older generation will claim membership of a religion even if they’re not religious (the old “put C of E down if you don’t know” type idea), but we’re definitely moving away from that towards a time when only the “true believers” will claim membership.
At least we’ll get more accurate stats!
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Sehmus Sincar
When I saw the title I was expecting different religion in numbers. However, your results does not mention any religion except Christianity and Atheism.
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The comment by Sehmus Sincar has prompted BRIN to note that the URL for these YouGov data tables has moved (the frequent absence of permanent URLs is a major challenge for anybody trying to run an archive site). The new URL is:
http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/2l6avzlerp/Religion.pdf
With regard to Sehmus’ specific query, only 5% of YouGov’s sample identified themselves as professing a non-Christian religion. The rest either had no religion or were Christians. Moreover, despite the size of the sample, YouGov did not report answers for this 5% separately. You will see from the tables that there are no breaks at all by religion, only by standard demographics (age, gender, social grade and region). Obviously, BRIN can only report and comment upon the data which actually enter the public domain.
You will, of course, find data about other religions elsewhere on the BRIN site.
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[…] recent study of 64,303 adults in the UK found that of the younger generation: only 38% of the 18-34′s […]
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