Summary information

Study title

Scottish Church Attendance Census, 1984

Creator

Brierley, P. W., Bible Society

MacDonald, F., National Bible Society of Scotland

Study number / PID

2554 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2554-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To ascertain the numbers going to church regularly in Scotland, their trend, by geographical area and denomination, their age/sex, and the Bible version used in churches.
Main Topics:

Variables:
Denomination; geographical location; age and sex of church-goer (by groups); numbers of attenders, 1980 and 1984, morning and evening, and both; numbers of church members and adherents 1980 and 1984; numbers attending midweek church meetings; Bible version used by the Church on Sunday and at midweek; Sunday School attendance; number of ministers.

Religion and values

Data collection period

01/03/1984

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

later studies are held under SN 4395 and SN 4650

Analysis unit

Groups

National

Church membership

Universe

Church attenders in Scotland in March 1984

Sampling procedure

No sampling (total universe)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Postal survey

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1988

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

MacDonald, F. and Brierley, P. (1985) Prospects for Scotland: Marc Europe.