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This survey examines religious affiliation, belief, and practice, demographic factors, and views on social issues (divorce, euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality, etc.) in Brazil. [See More...]

The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) conducts this annual survey in the South Caucasus (e.g., Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) in order to gauge the social, political and economic issues in the former Soviet Union region. In addition to the questions asked in previous rounds, CRRC has included new questions assessing social capital and religious views - the latter were asked in collaboration with ARDA. The same survey and methodological approach is applied to all three countries. However, Armenian respondents were asked additional questions pertaining to the Armenian Genocide and Georgian respondents were asked additional questions about opinions toward Joseph Stalin as part of a project with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace entitled, "The Stalin Puzzle: Deciphering Post-Soviet Public Opinion." This is the only survey in the region providing reliable comparative data about the opinions, household composition, and economic behavior of the population of the three countries over the last nine years. [See More...]

The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) conducts this annual survey in the South Caucasus (e.g., Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) in order to gauge the social, political and economic issues in the former Soviet Union region. In addition to the questions asked in previous rounds, CRRC has included new questions assessing social capital and religious views - the latter were asked in collaboration with ARDA. The same survey and methodological approach is applied to all three countries. However, Armenian respondents were asked additional questions pertaining to the Armenian Genocide and Georgian respondents were asked additional questions about opinions toward Joseph Stalin as part of a project with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace entitled, "The Stalin Puzzle: Deciphering Post-Soviet Public Opinion." This is the only survey in the region providing reliable comparative data about the opinions, household composition, and economic behavior of the population of the three countries over the last nine years. [See More...]

The Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC) conducts this annual survey in the South Caucasus (e.g., Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) in order to gauge the social, political and economic issues in the former Soviet Union region. In addition to the questions asked in previous rounds, CRRC has included new questions assessing social capital and religious views - the latter were asked in collaboration with ARDA. The same survey and methodological approach is applied to all three countries. However, Armenian respondents were asked additional questions pertaining to the Armenian Genocide and Georgian respondents were asked additional questions about opinions toward Joseph Stalin as part of a project with Carnegie Endowment for International Peace entitled, "The Stalin Puzzle: Deciphering Post-Soviet Public Opinion." This is the only survey in the region providing reliable comparative data about the opinions, household composition, and economic behavior of the population of the three countries over the last nine years. [See More...]

This survey contains measures for examining the effect of spirituality on health. Topics for spirituality and religiosity measures include: spiritual and meditative practice, spiritual experiences, values, forgiveness, private religious practice, religious and spiritual coping, religious support, religious and spiritual history, organized religious practice and preference, meaning. Topics for health measures include: frequency and positivity of exceptional experiences, mindfulness, and current problems. Other data include basic demographic characteristics. [See More...]

Restavek is a form of modern-day slavery that is estimated to affect 300,000 (i.e., approximately 1 in 10) children in Haiti. It typically involves a child from a poor rural family being sent to work as an indentured domestic servant for an affluent urban [See More...]

The English Church Census, 1989 was carried out on October 15th, 1989 by MARC Europe (this research body ceased to exist and Christian Research was formed out of it). The main aim of the survey was to get details of church attendance in England by denomination, churchmanship, county and environment. Comparable studies have been conducted in 1979, 1998, and 2005. [See More...]

The fourth English Church Census was carried out on 8 May 2005. Comparable studies had been conducted in 1979, 1989 and 1998. All were organised and led by Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of the organisation Christian Research prior to his retirement in 2007. The goal of the study was to enumerate a complete census of Trinitarian Christian churches in England and their attendance, along with gathering data on a number of questions relating to age and racial makeup, evangelistic ministries, and mission-related activities. A similar attendance survey in Scotland was conducted in 2002. [See More...]

This survey contains measures for exceptional, or paranormal, experiences. Topics include positive spiritual experiences (i.e., being illumined by divine light and strength), negative spiritual experiences (i.e., worldview falling apart), psychopathological experiences (i.e., hearing voices), and visionary dream experiences (i.e., dreaming so vividly that dreams reverberate when awake). Other data include basic demographic characteristics. [See More...]

This data archive provides the first large-scale longitudinal study of children of immigrants (one or both parents born abroad or brought to the host country at or before age five) and immigrant children (the 1.5 generation: older than age five but still in their childhood or adolescence) successfully carried out in Spain, or any Western European country. It was designed to replicate the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study carried out in the United States in the 1990s and early 2000s. For Wave 1, almost 7,000 children of immigrants attending basic secondary school in close to 200 educational centers in both cities took part in the study. [See More...]

This dataset is the first representative survey of religious congregations in Switzerland. A representative sample of approximately 1,000 Swiss congregations was developed and a leader of each congregation was interviewed, using a standardized questionnaire. The central questions of this survey deal with congregational vitality and what congregations in Switzerland offer concerning worship, social, political and cultural activities. [See More...]

The National Poll on Social Capital (ENCAS) is a survey developed by the Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL) and the United Nations Development Programme in Mexico (UNPD). The objective is to provide information about the social capital of Mexico. Social capital, referring to the norms and social networks that allow collective action, is presumed to be an element that allows greater action power for communities and leads to greater efficiency for public programs through the participation of the citizen in the search for a higher quality of life. For this reason SEDESOL developed a source of data that allows a better understanding of the magnitude of the relationship between social capital, social networks, and collective results. [See More...]

The Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL) and the National Council to Prevent Discrimination developed the National Survey on Discrimination in Mexico to assess the amount of discrimination in the everyday lives of Mexican citizens. Specifically, SEDESOL wanted to analyze the problem from the perspectives of the general population and from specific vulnerable populations. For this reason, the survey developed seven different questionnaires: a general questionnaire for the general population and six separate questionnaires for targeted vulnerable populations. These targeted vulnerable populations included: a) population of elderly people, b) indigenous population, c) population with non-Catholic religious beliefs, d) female population, e) people with disabilities, and f) individuals with non-heterosexual preferences, which became a case study due to the difficulty covering that specific targeted population. [See More...]

The Secretary of Social Development (SEDESOL) and the National Council to Prevent Discrimination developed the National Survey on Discrimination in Mexico to assess the amount of discrimination in the everyday lives of Mexican citizens. Specifically, SEDESOL wanted to analyze the problem from the perspectives of the general population and from specific vulnerable populations. For this reason, the survey developed seven different questionnaires: a general questionnaire for the general population and six separate questionnaires for targeted vulnerable populations. These targeted vulnerable populations included: a) population of elderly people, b) indigenous population, c) population with non-Catholic religious beliefs, d) female population, e) people with disabilities, and f) individuals with non-heterosexual preferences, which became a case study due to the difficulty covering that specific targeted population. [See More...]

The Noordin Top Terrorist Network Data were drawn primarily from "Terrorism in Indonesia: Noordin's Networks," a publication of the International Crisis Group, and include relational data on 79 individuals discussed in that publication. The dataset includes information on these individuals' affiliations with terrorist/insurgent organizations, educational institutions, businesses, and religious institutions. It also outlines which individuals are classmates, kin, friends, and co-religionists, and it details which individuals provided logistical support or participated in training events, terrorist operations, and meetings. [See More...]

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey was launched in the autumn of 1998. Its mission has been to monitor the attitudes and behaviour of people in Northern Ireland during the late 1990s and into the present century, in order to provide a time-series and a public record of how our attitudes and behaviour develop on a wide range of social policy issues. The survey is run on a modular format. Two modules are repeated every year (Political Attitudes and Community Relations), and the rest of the survey varies annually with all the modules designed to be repeated in years to come. [See More...]

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey was launched in the autumn of 1998. Its mission has been to monitor the attitudes and behaviour of people in Northern Ireland during the late 1990s and into the present century, in order to provide a time-series and a public record of how our attitudes and behaviour develop on a wide range of social policy issues. The survey is run on a modular format. Two modules are repeated every year (Political Attitudes and Community Relations), and the rest of the survey varies annually with all the modules designed to be repeated in years to come. The specialty modules for 2004 are Men's Life and Times, Countryside and Farming, Religious Observance, and Grandparenting and Family Life. [See More...]

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey was launched in the autumn of 1998. Its mission has been to monitor the attitudes and behaviour of people in Northern Ireland during the late 1990s and into the present century, in order to provide a time-series and a public record of how our attitudes and behaviour develop on a wide range of social policy issues. The survey is run on a modular format. Two modules are repeated every year (Political Attitudes and Community Relations), and the rest of the survey varies annually with all the modules designed to be repeated in years to come. The specialty modules for 2008 are Attitudes to Older People, Religious Observance, and Minority Ethnic People. [See More...]

These data were collected for a study of how the characteristics of political parties influence women's chances in assuming leadership positions within the parties' inner structures. Data were compiled by Fatima Sbaity Kassem for a case-study of Lebanon and by national and local researchers for 25 other countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. Researchers gathered information about parties' year of origin, number of seats in parliament, political platform, and all sex-disaggregated party data (in percentages) on overall party membership, shares in executive and decision-making bodies, and nominations on electoral lists. A key variable measures party religiosity, which refers to the religious components on their political platforms or the extent to which religion penetrates their political agendas. [See More...]

This study is Pew Research Center's most comprehensive, in-depth exploration of India to date. For this report, Pew surveyed 29,999 Indian adults (including 22,975 who identify as Hindu, 3,336 who identify as Muslim, 1,782 who identify as Sikh, 1,011 who identify as Christian, 719 who identify as Buddhist, 109 who identify as Jain and 67 who identify as belonging to another religion or as religiously unaffiliated). Interviews for this nationally representative survey were conducted face-to-face under the direction of RTI International from November 17, 2019, to March 23, 2020. Respondents were surveyed about religious beliefs and practices, religious identity, nationalism, and tolerance in Indian society. [See More...]

Between Oct. 14, 2014, and May 21, 2015, Pew Research Center, with generous funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Neubauer Family Foundation, completed 5,601 face-to-face interviews with non-institutionalized adults ages 18 and older living in Israel. [See More...]

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) is a movement within the Roman Catholic Church that has grown dramatically in many parts of the world over the past three decades, including Sub-Saharan Africa. This survey's aim is to establish the relationship between the CCR and civic engagement in Kenya and Nigeria. This data file focuses on Kenya. The questionnaires had items relating to religious behavior and beliefs and political attitudes and behaviors. The Nigeria file can also be found on the ARDA. [See More...]

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) is a movement within the Roman Catholic Church that has grown dramatically in many parts of the world over the past three decades, including Sub-Saharan Africa. This survey's aim is to establish the relationship between the CCR and civic engagement in Kenya and Nigeria. This data file focuses on Nigeria. The questionnaires had items relating to religious behavior and beliefs and political attitudes and behaviors. The Kenya file can also be found on the ARDA. [See More...]

This survey examines a variety of religious and non-religious topics in Italy. Religious topics include: morality of behaviors (abortion, theft, divorce, homosexuality, etc.), religious beliefs, the meaning of life, religious experiences, participation in religious rituals, views concerning and participation in sacraments, moral issues surrounding pregnancy, the role of the Catholic Church in society, obstacles to becoming clergy or a monastic, and belief in paranormal phenomena. Other topics include views on Italy's politics and economy, political party, life satisfaction, use of leisure time, geographic region, and demographic characteristics. [See More...]

The objective of the survey was to gain an understanding of the religious beliefs and practices of the Mexican people, including different regions with regard to major religions. A questionnaire was designed around four thematic sections: (1) changing religion, (2) identity and religious commitment, (3) religious practices, and (4) key beliefs and perceptions on religion and the public sphere. [See More...]

The aim of this study was to develop and validate an initial religious coping scale for Iranians based on Kenneth Pargament's religious coping scale (RCOPE). The questionnaire was created using items from the original RCOPE scale and items created by the primary investigator based on Islamic teachings. [See More...]

The second Scottish Church Census was carried out on May 11-12, 2002. Comparable studies have been conducted in Scotland in 1984 and 1994 and in England in 1979, 1989, 1998 and 2005. All were organized and led by Dr Peter Brierley, executive director of the organization Christian Research prior to his retirement in 2007. [See More...]

After the fall of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine became fertile ground for empirical research on religious diversity. Over the past 30 years, several examples illustrate the growing religious pluralism in Ukraine. These include the strong presence of all major Christian denominations (Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, Roman-Catholic and Protestant), the solid influence of the Greek-Catholic church in Western Ukraine, a persisting Baptist presence since the 19th century (i.e., serving as the base for transnational evangelical missions to post-Soviet republics), the rise and growth of Muslim and Jewish communities and the split of the Orthodox church into three independent jurisdictions: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC). Moreover, in 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed the Tomos, officially recognizing a new Orthodox Church of Ukraine as a canonical autocephalous Orthodox Church within the territory of Ukraine. The goal of this dataset is to map the 30 years of religious resurgence in Ukraine after the fall of the USSR. By measuring and tracking religious supply, this project aims to contribute to the global discussion about its role and state in shaping religious behavior and attitudes of people. Religious supply is also deeply embedded in the history of the Soviet and post-Soviet era; since 2015, religion is associated with political solidarity and international affairs. SACRED-Ukraine includes two files: 1) Religious communities 1991-2015 2) Religious communities 1991-2018 The following dataset attached is the first file. See Spatial Analysis of Contemporary Religious Diversity in Ukraine (SACRED -- Ukraine), 1991-2018 for the second dataset. [See More...]

After the fall of the USSR in 1991, Ukraine became fertile ground for empirical research on religious diversity. Over the past 30 years, several examples illustrate the growing religious pluralism in Ukraine. These include the strong presence of all major Christian denominations (Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, Roman-Catholic and Protestant), the solid influence of the Greek-Catholic church in Western Ukraine, a persisting Baptist presence since the 19th century (i.e., serving as the base for transnational evangelical missions to post-Soviet republics), the rise and growth of Muslim and Jewish communities and the split of the Orthodox church into three independent jurisdictions: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP), and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC). Moreover, in 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed the Tomos, officially recognizing a new Orthodox Church of Ukraine as a canonical autocephalous Orthodox Church within the territory of Ukraine. The goal of this dataset is to map the 30 years of religious resurgence in Ukraine after the fall of the USSR. By measuring and tracking religious supply, this project aims to contribute to the global discussion about its role and state in shaping religious behavior and attitudes of people. Religious supply is also deeply embedded in the history of the Soviet and post-Soviet era; since 2015, religion is associated with political solidarity and international affairs. SACRED-Ukraine includes two files: 1) Religious communities 1991-2015 2) Religious communities 1991-2018 The following dataset attached is the second file. See Spatial Analysis of Contemporary Religious Diversity in Ukraine (SACRED -- Ukraine), 1991-2015 for the first dataset. [See More...]

The lack of quality data has left academia with an unclear picture of what religious life is like in China. Much of what is known comes from government statistics, anecdotal reports from missionaries and religious organizations, or field research. The objective of this study was to design and collect a state of the art random sample of Chinese citizens and assess their religious and spiritual life. A high quality team of Chinese scholars was assembled for the project. The survey was designed in fall 2006. In the spring of 2007, Dr. Anna Sun led a research team to field test the survey in China. In May 2007 the data were collected. The survey was a face-to-face interview. Respondents were selected using a multi-stage method to select metropolitan cities, towns and administrative villages. The final survey was administered in 56 locales throughout China, including 3 municipal cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing), 6 province capital cities (Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hefei, Xi'an and Chengdu). In addition, 11 regional level cities, 16 small towns, and 20 administrative villages were sampled. Within each locale, households were sampled within neighborhoods, and neighborhoods were sampled within administratively defined total neighborhood committees (government defined collections of neighborhoods). A KISH grid procedure was used to randomly select one respondent from each household for a face-to-face in-home interview. [See More...]

The social scientific study of mysticism has suggested a mystical experiential core that exists across traditions. Empirical studies have identified this "common core" in traditions such as Christian Protestants, Jews, Hindus, and Persian Muslims. There has been a lack of understanding in the mystical experience among Oriental Buddhism both in its content and in its structure. [See More...]

The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is Australia's main source of data for the scientific study of the social attitudes, beliefs and opinions of Australians, how they change over time, and how they compare with other societies. [See More...]

The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is Australia's main source of data for the scientific study of the social attitudes, beliefs and opinions of Australians, how they change over time, and how they compare with other societies. The survey is used to help researchers better understand how Australians think and feel about their lives. It produces important information about the changing views and attitudes of Australians as we move through the 21st century. Similar surveys are run in other countries, so data from AuSSA survey also allows us to compare Australia with countries all over the world. [See More...]

The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) is Australia's main source of data for the scientific study of the social attitudes, beliefs and opinions of Australians, how they change over time, and how they compare with other societies. The survey is used to help researchers better understand how Australians think and feel about their lives. It produces important information about the changing views and attitudes of Australians as we move through the 21st century. Similar surveys are run in other countries, so data from the AuSSA also allows us to compare Australia with countries all over the world. [See More...]

The Comparative Study of Religious Experience in Taiwan was conducted by the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan, under Yen-zen Tsai. It was funded by the Taiwan National Science Council. The survey includes questions about experiencing extraordinary powers, experiences initiating a new understanding of life, dreams, mysterious feelings and visions, conception and behavior, ideas and beliefs, and personal details. Further information can be obtained from the Survey Research Data Archive. [See More...]

The study 'The 'New Traditional' in a Most Traditional Church: How the Pandemic Has Reshaped American Orthodox Christian Churches' examines both the overall impact of the pandemic and its possible long-term consequences for American Orthodox Christian congregations. The report also discusses 'mysteriously' strong growth in vitality that some congregations (12 percent of all American Orthodox parishes) experienced despite and even because of the pandemic. This study was made possible thanks to a generous grant provided by the Louisville Institute. [See More...]

This dataset examines characteristics of Dutch Catholic Parishes, including their purpose, activities, participants, target group, visitors, and slogan or motto. [See More...]