Different questions were asked in England and Wales (‘what is your religion?’) and in Scotland (‘what religion, religious denomination, or body do you belong to?’) The religious census also took place in Northern Ireland, undertaken by the Northern Ireland Statistics … Continue reading →

The sample of magazine readers was self-selecting and had a higher average age than the churchgoers. For ministers a database was used of those who had self-indicated they were leading an evangelical church in Great Britain, of whom 31% replied.

There was a skew away from rural parishes and small churches in the responses