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Religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (2102)


Type of Data: Religious beliefs, practices and attitudes (2102)

Faith Community: General

Date: 1981, March

Geography: Great Britain. Part of multinational survey

Sample Size: 1231 (including a booster sample of adults aged 18-24)

Population: Adults aged 18 and over

Keywords: Afterlife, attitudes towards religion, children, Church, church attendance, churchgoing, comfort and strength, confidence, devil, evil, God, good, heaven, hell, importance of God, importance of religion, life after death, life force, man's spiritual needs, marriage, meaning and purpose of life, meditation, membership of religious organizations, minority religious sects or cults, morality, moral problems, neighbours, one true religion, parents, partner, prayer, prejudice, problems of family life, reincarnation, religion, religious affiliation, religious experience, religious faith, sacrifice, self-assessed religiosity, shared religious beliefs, sin, soul, spirit, Ten Commandments, values, volunteering

Collection Method: Face-to-face interview

Collection Agency: Social Surveys (Gallup Poll)

Sponsor: European Value Systems Study Group

Survey Instrument: Values and Social Change in Britain, eds. Abrams, Gerard and Timms, pp. 300-25

Published Source:

  • Norman Webb and Robert J. Wybrow, The Gallup Report: Your Opinions in 1981, London: Sphere Books, 1982, pp. 175-81
  • The Tablet, 26 February 1983
  • Jean Stoetzel, Les Valeurs du Temps Présent: Une Enquête, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983
  • Index to International Public Opinion, 1982-1983, eds. Elizabeth Hann Hastings and Philip K. Hastings, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984, pp. 519-605
  • David Gerard, 'Religious Attitudes and Values', Values and Social Change in Britain, eds. Mark Abrams, David Gerard and Noel Timms, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985, pp. 50-92
  • New Society, 8 November 1985
  • Stephen Harding and David Phillips with Michael Fogarty, Contrasting Values in Western Europe: Unity, Diversity and Change, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986
  • Gordon Heald, 'A Comparison Between American, European and Japanese Values', Values: A Symposium, eds. Brenda Almond and Bryan Wilson, Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, 1988, pp. 75-90
  • Robert A. Campbell and James E. Curtis, 'Religious Involvement Across Societies: Analyses for Alternative Measures in National Surveys', Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 33, 1994, pp. 217-29
  • http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org

    BRIN ID: 2102

    Remarks:

    Multinational survey, also undertaken between 1980 and 1984 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Malta, Mexico, The Netherlands, Multinational survey, also undertaken between 1980 and 1984 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Malta, Mexico, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, United States of America and West Germany. Dataset available at ESDS as SN 2062 and SN 6540

    Posted by: Clive D. Field

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