Category Archives: Official data

Religion in Scotland

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Scotland’s Population, 2009, the 155th annual review of the Registrar General for Scotland, was published on 6 August. It can be purchased in print format (ISBN 978-1-874451-80-8, £7) or be downloaded from: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files2/stats/annual-review-09/rgar2009.pdf The review is accompanied by Vital Events … Continue reading →

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Citizenship Survey, 2009-10 – First Results

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Detailed reporting from the 2008-09 Citizenship Survey may not yet be complete (in particular, the topic report on race, religion and equalities is still outstanding), but initial results from all four quarters of the 2009-10 survey were released by the … Continue reading →

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A Non-Source of Religious Statistics

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Government actually collects quite a lot of data pertaining to religion in Britain, but you would not think so if your only evidence was the Annual Abstract of Statistics. The latest (and last) print edition (No. 146 for 2010) was … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Social Trends

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 2 July the Office for National Statistics published the fortieth (2010) edition of Social Trends, the annual compilation of social data from governmental and other sources. Edited by Matthew Hughes, it can be bought as a print publication from … Continue reading →

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Caring for Places of Worship

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Churchgoing may be declining, but, according to an omnibus survey conducted for the Church of England, 85% of the adult population visited places of worship for some reason in 2009, whether for an event, personal interest or to attend a … Continue reading →

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Science and Religion in the European Union

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The interactions of science with religion have featured in a number of opinion polls during the past year or so, largely in connection with the debate on the origins of the universe, and how it should be taught in schools, … Continue reading →

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‘Onward Pagan Soldiers’ (Daily Mail)

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 5 April 2010, we reported on ‘Religion in the Armed Forces’, based on an annual census of religious profession carried out by the Defence Analytical Services and Advice section of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The religious groupings used … Continue reading →

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Muslims in Prison

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

In December 2008 there were 9,975 Muslim prisoners in England and Wales, equivalent to 12% of the prison population. This represented a considerable increase on the 5% in 1994 and 8% in 2004 and was more than four times the … Continue reading →

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Transforming Religious Education

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills) has today published a new report on the state of religious education (RE) in 183 maintained primary and secondary schools across 70 local authorities in England. These schools were inspected … Continue reading →

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