Changing patterns of religious affiliation, church attendance and marriage across five areas of Europe since the early 1980s: trends and associations

Williams, Emyr; Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew

doi:10.1080/13617670903175113

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“…The focus is generally also on surveys which employed larger than average samples or on chronologically adjacent surveys whose results can be aggregated, ironing out the inevitable volatility from one poll to the next. For this reason, several well-known series such as the European Values Surveys (Williams, Francis, and Village 2009), which use fairly small samples and pose consistency issues across the constituent waves, have been ignored. Even so, apart from the two largest communions (Anglicanism and Catholicism), individual national surveys cannot be guaranteed to provide a totally reliable measurement of specific Christian denominations, although pooling data from multiple studies, as Field (2009) has done for Methodists, can sometimes lead to significant discoveries.…”

Section: Sample Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain: the 2011 census in historical and methodological context

Field

2014

Religion

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The British religious census of 2011 is located in its broader historical and methodological context. The principal developments in the measurement of religious affiliation (proxy-assigned or self-assigned) in Britain are traced from the Reformation to the present day, charting the relative contribution of the Churches, the State and empirical social science. The key statistics which have emerged from their respective efforts are summarised, with nominal religious affiliation universal until the time of the French Revolution and preponderant until as late as the 1980s. For recent decades, when the profession of faith has been rejected by large numbers of Britons, particular attention is paid to the variant results from different question-wording. Depending upon what is asked, the proportion of the population currently making sense of their lives without asserting a confessional religious identity ranges from onequarter to one-half. The difficulties of trying to construct a religious barometer through a single, unitary indicator are thus illuminated.

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Section: Sample Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%