Census of membership and attendance in local and area meetings of the Religious Society of Friends, and appointments held in them (2993)

Type of Data: Census of membership and attendance in local and area meetings of the Religious Society of Friends, and appointments held in them (2993)

Faith Community: Christianity (Religious Society of Friends)

Date: 2008, 11 May

Geography: Great Britain

Sample Size: 343 local meetings (72% response) and 55 area meetings (77% response)

Population: Local and area meetings in Britain Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends

Keywords: Appointments, attenders, business meetings, church attendance, churchgoing, meetings for worship, membership, non-members, Quakers, Society of Friends

Collection Method: Self-completion postal questionnaire

Collection Agency: Religious Society of Friends

Survey Instrument: Chadkirk, ‘Patterns of Membership and Participation’, pp. xi-xvi

Published Source:

James William Croan Chadkirk and Ben Pink Dandelion, 'Present and Prevented, 2006 and 2008: Summary Report on the Survey of the 11 May 2008 and Comparison with the Survey of the 7 May 2006', Quaker Studies, Vol. 15, 2010-11, pp. 84-97

James William Croan Chadkirk, ‘Patterns of Membership and Participation among British Quakers, 1823-2012’, University of Birmingham MPhil thesis, 2014, pp. 81-103, 154-82, xi-xvi

BRIN ID: 2993

Remarks:

The survey had previously been conducted in 2006 and was further replicated in 2010.

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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