Religious affiliation, churchgoing, and belief in God and life after death (2511)

Type of Data: Religious affiliation, churchgoing, and belief in God and life after death (2511)

Faith Community: General

Date: 1947, December

Geography: Great Britain. Part of multinational survey

Sample Size: 2000

Population: Adults aged 21 and over

Keywords: Afterlife, church attendance, churchgoing, God, life after death, life force, religious affiliation, spirit

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: British Institute of Public Opinion. BIPO was established by George Gallup in 1936 to run the British Gallup Poll

Sponsor: News Chronicle

Published Source:

News Chronicle, 13 January 1948

Hans Jürgen Eysenck, The Psychology of Politics, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954, p. 33

P. Alan, 'The Statistics of Belief', The Humanist, Vol. 76, 1961, pp. 169-71

The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain, 1937-1975, ed. George Horace Gallup, 2 vol., New York: Random House, 1976, Vol. 1, p. 166

BRIN ID: 2511

Remarks:

Multinational survey, also undertaken in Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United States

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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