Category Archives: Survey news

A Pot-Pourri of Beliefs

Posted on October 2, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Opinion pollsters Populus have recently released the results of an online survey of attitudes to topical questions, including a number of religious interest. Fieldwork was conducted between 20 and 23 August 2010 among a representative sample of 1,037 adult Britons … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged afterlife, apes, Creationism, Darwinianism, evolution, foreseeing the future, God, life after death, Populus, psychic powers, time travel, UFOs, unidentified flying objects | 1 Comment

Harvest Festivals

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Some form of public thanksgiving, secular or religious, for the successful bringing-in of the harvest can be traced back to pagan times in Britain. However, harvest festival services, in the sense with which most of us will be familiar from … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Eat Seasonably, harvest festivals, YouGov | Leave a comment

Integrated Household Survey – First Release of Data

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Clive D. Field

New estimates of the religious profile of Great Britain were published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 23 September, in the form of the first release of data from the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) for April 2009 to … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged Census, Integrated Household Survey, Muslims, Office for National Statistics | 6 Comments

The Sun Shines Some Light

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Clive D. Field

BRIN readers might not naturally think of The Sun, perhaps Britain’s most famous weekday tabloid newspaper, as a source of religious intelligence. However, as part of its polling contract with YouGov, it did add a couple of questions on topical … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged halal meat, Muslims, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, The Sun, YouGov | Leave a comment

Sex Abuse and the Papacy

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The latest opinion poll connected with the papal visit was published by CNN (for whom it was conducted by ComRes) on 17 September, Pope Benedict’s first day in England. A representative sample of 2,028 adult Britons aged 18 and over … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged child abuse, CNN, ComRes, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, priests, Queen, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse | Leave a comment

Daybreak Surveys Religion

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Daybreak is the new breakfast television programme for the ITV network, anchored by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley and launched on 6 September. It has made an early entry into surveying public opinion by commissioning YouGov to run a poll on … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged attendance at religious services, child abuse, Christianity, church weddings, Citizenship Survey, Daybreak, Faith schools, inter-faith marriage, ITV, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, respect, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, YouGov | Leave a comment

Superstition

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The British continue to be a pretty superstitious bunch, according to research published by 72point (the news, public relations and survey specialists) on 16 September. No fewer than 14 million adults admit to regularly carrying out everyday tasks they believe … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged 72Point, luck, Racing for Change, superstition | 1 Comment

Citizenship Survey, 2008-09 – Religion

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 14 September the Department for Communities and Local Government published online 2008-09 Citizenship Survey: Race, Religion and Equalities Topic Report by Chris Ferguson and David Hussey. It comprises a PDF document of 113 pages plus 105 statistical tables in … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged Chris Ferguson, Citizenship Survey, David Hussey, Department for Communities and Local Government, equalities, government, Muslims, NatCen, race, racial and religious harassment, religious prejudice, religious rights | Leave a comment

Populus on the Papal Visit

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The opinion pollsters continue to pick up business from the now imminent papal visit to Scotland and England. Following the ComRes/BBC and YouGov/ITV surveys carried out among Catholics, reported by BRIN on Sunday and Monday, today brings a study of … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged abortion, child abuse, contraception, force for good, force for ill, gay adoption, homosexuality, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Populus, Roman Catholic Church, Ruth Gledhill, Sam Coates, sexual abuse, The Times, tolerance, understanding, women priests | 1 Comment

Britons Respond to Pastor Jones

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The ninth anniversary of 9/11 was somewhat overshadowed by the crisis precipitated by Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville (Florida), who planned to mark the occasion by an ‘International burn a Koran’ day but, in … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged 9/11, cartoons, freedom of expression, Islamophobia, Koran, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an, racial hatred, Sunday Times, Terry Jones, United States Government, YouGov | 1 Comment

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A Pot-Pourri of Beliefs

Harvest Festivals

Integrated Household Survey – First Release of Data

The Sun Shines Some Light

Sex Abuse and the Papacy

Daybreak Surveys Religion

Superstition

Citizenship Survey, 2008-09 – Religion

Populus on the Papal Visit

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