Summary information
Study title
Religious Affiliation in Western Germany 1939-1987
Creator
Wolf, Christof (Forschungsinstitut für Soziologie, Universität zu Köln)
Study number / PID
ZA8146, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.8146 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
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Abstract
West German population.
Topics:
The data come from the censuses of 1939 to 1987.
The data set contains two levels of aggregation:
information on distribution of religious affiliation
for the Federal Republic (West) altogether and
information on distribution of religious affiliation in the 11 (old) states.
Besides the specific classifications of religious affiliation for every census
the data set contains a common classification for all points in time.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
1939 - 1987
Country
Germany
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Census
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Originally interview, then recording of publicized data.
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1999
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
Related publications
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