Category Archives: Survey news

National Student Survey

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There is a very wide variation in the satisfaction of full-time final-year undergraduate students with the quality of the teaching of first degrees in theology and religious studies at UK universities. This is according to results from the National Student … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged higher education, Ipsos-MORI, National Student Survey, Research Assessment Exercise, student satisfaction | Leave a comment

Campaigning Christians

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Churchgoing Christians in the UK have a strong campaigning streak, according to a ComRes Cpanel poll commissioned by Premier Christian Media and published on 1 August. Online interviews were conducted with 529 Christians aged 18 and over on 6-18 July … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged abortion, Alpha course, assisted suicide, campaigns, church leadership, churchmanship, ComRes, Cpanel, elderly, euthanasia, family, freedom of religious expression, marriage, parenting, persecuted Church, Premier Christian Media, prison, youth work | 3 Comments

Terrorist Threats

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Despite renewed media preoccupation with far-right organizations in Britain, following revelations of links between them and Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the recent outrages in Norway, many Britons still view ‘Islamic terrorism’ as the greater problem, even though two-thirds also … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged extremism, far right, Islamic terrorism, police, security services, Sunday Times, YouGov | Leave a comment

Britons, Islamophobia and the Qur’an

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

One-quarter of adult Britons blame Muslims for the existence of Islamophobia in the UK, according to a ComRes poll of 1,004 adults aged 18 and over undertaken by telephone between 8 and 10 July 2011, and published on 21 July. … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, ComRes, Islamophobia, Koran, Muslims, Qur'an, violence | 1 Comment

Equality Duties and Schools

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Even before the Public Sector Equality Duty came into effect on 5 April 2011, thereby extending the legislative diversity responsibilities of public bodies to religion or belief, more than nine-tenths of maintained schools had already built religion or belief into … Continue reading →

Posted in Organisational data, Survey news | Tagged Equality and Human Rights Commission, Fiona Johnson, Graham Bukowski, Hazel Roberts, Ipsos-MORI, Jen Fraser, Public Sector Equality Duty, religion or belief equality strand, schools | Leave a comment

National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Religion is already a major component of the Big Society, even on a narrow definition, and without taking full account of the wider contribution of faith communities to the development of the country’s social capital. For example, 19% of charities … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged advancement of religion, Big Society, Cabinet Office, charities, Ipsos-MORI, National Survey of Charities and Social Enterprises, National Survey of Third Sector Organisations, Office for Civil Society, social enterprises, voluntary organizations | Leave a comment

Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Churchgoing teenagers are the biggest backers of Muslim identity in Britain, according to preliminary research results from the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit, and released on 26 July 2011 in connection with the two-day conference on ‘Religion in Education: … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Burka, headscarf, Islamophobia, Leslie Francis, Muslim schools, Muslims, Religion and Society Programme, Religious diversity, University of Warwick, Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit | 1 Comment

Participation in Higher Education and Religion

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Clive D. Field

‘Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs more likely to go to university than their Christian classmates’, proclaimed the headline to Richard Vaughan’s article in The TES for 22 July 2011. The story was subsequently picked up by the Daily Telegraph on 23 … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged A Levels, Christians, Department for Education, educational attainment, ethnicity, GCSEs, higher education, Hindus, Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, LSYPE, Muslims, Richard Vaughan, sex, Sikhs, Steve Strand, TES, Times Educational Supplement | Leave a comment

Mission Work and Mission Workers

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A quantitative profile of mission work and mission workers in 2010 has recently been published by ADBC Publishers, the imprint of Brierley Consultancy, which undertook the underlying research on behalf of ReachAcross (formerly the Red Sea Mission Team), the mission … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Affinity, Brierley Consultancy, mission agencies, mission workers, missionaries, Peter Brierley, ReachAcross | Leave a comment

Conscientious Objection in Medical Students

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Nearly half of medical students believe it is the right of doctors conscientiously to object to any procedure, and this is especially the case among Muslim medical students, according to research by Sophie Strickland published on 18 July in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged abortion, conscientious objection, doctors, ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, medical students, Muslims, Sophie Strickland | Leave a comment

Thanks for your query. There are no recent British data on these topics which spring to mind, at least so…

Is there any data on the number of converts to Christianity from Islam and vice versa in the UK?

The census of population (2001, 2011, 2021) is the main statistical source for non-Christian and other faiths and groups. Jews…

Very interesting

Where are the statistics for other religious groups? In addition, analysis on the differences between 1st to 3rd generation migrant…

Category Archives: Survey news

National Student Survey

Campaigning Christians

Terrorist Threats

Britons, Islamophobia and the Qur’an

Equality Duties and Schools

Young People’s Attitudes to Religious Diversity

Participation in Higher Education and Religion

Mission Work and Mission Workers

Conscientious Objection in Medical Students

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