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- BY Gregory A. Smith - Pew Research Centers Religion Public Life Project
Whereas indicators of religious identity and frequency of prayer produced by self-administered surveys (like the NPORS) can be directly compared with estimates produced by interviewer-administered surveys (like the Center’s earlier telephone surveys), self-administered surveys may produce slightly lower estimates of religion’s importance
- U. S. Religious Landscape Survey - Pew Research Centers Religion . . .
In recent decades, much high-quality research has been done on the religious makeup of the United States and on the way religion relates to politics and public life Nevertheless, there are still major gaps in our knowledge of the American religious landscape For instance, estimates of the size of religious communities in the U S – especially the smaller groups – are often contested
- Religious affiliation of members of 117th Congress
Figures for U S adults based on aggregated Pew Research Center political surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 Figures for Protestant subgroups and Unitarians come from Pew Research Center’s 2014 U S Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4-Sept 30, 2014 “Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 117th Congress
- U. S. Religious Landscape Survey Religious Beliefs and Practices . . .
The latest release of the Landscape Survey includes a wealth of information on the religious beliefs and practices of the American public, including the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in God and the afterlife, attitudes toward the authority of sacred writings, frequency of worship attendance and prayer, and participation in religious activities outside of worship services
- NUMBERS, FACTS AND TRENDS SHAPING THE WORLD
A Note on Defining Religious Affiliation and the Study’s Terminology s referred to as “religious identity”) is based on self-reports Catholics, for instance, are defined as all respondents who say they are Catholic, regardless of
- The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
Collecting and analyzing this trove of data was a massive endeavor, and the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion Public Life has published the results in stages In August 2012, we released a report (“The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity”) that focused on the survey’s findings about religious beliefs and practices It showed that while there is much commonality of belief
- Index of religiosity, by state - Pew Research Centers Religion . . .
The index is created by combining four individual measures of religious observance - self-assessment of religion’s importance in one’s life, religious attendance, frequency of prayer, and belief in God
- In America, Does More Education Equal Less Religion?
The idea that highly educated people are less religious, on average, than those with less education has been a part of the public discourse for decades, but some scholars of religion have called this notion into question 1 And a new analysis of Pew Research Center surveys shows that the relationship between religion and education in the United
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