AEI Religion Report
A new report on religion polling data from the American Enterprise Institute on "Important Trends in Religion".
A couple of interesting numbers:
"Do you happen to be a member of a church or synagogue?"
1937 Yes = 73 No = 27
2005 Yes = 63 No = 35
"Did you, yourself, happen to attend church or synagogue in the last seven days, or not?"
1939 Yes = 41 No = 59
2004 (Jun)Yes = 43 No = 57
So, membership may be down slightly (we don't have the numbers to know if this difference is statistically significant, but I'd guess it was likely to be if the polls are reasonably standard) but church and synagogue attendance is up. This might be an artifact of when the surveys were done in the course of the year, but it is an interesting difference between membership and attendance numbers from similar times.
There are other interesting numbers too.
A couple of interesting numbers:
"Do you happen to be a member of a church or synagogue?"
1937 Yes = 73 No = 27
2005 Yes = 63 No = 35
"Did you, yourself, happen to attend church or synagogue in the last seven days, or not?"
1939 Yes = 41 No = 59
2004 (Jun)Yes = 43 No = 57
So, membership may be down slightly (we don't have the numbers to know if this difference is statistically significant, but I'd guess it was likely to be if the polls are reasonably standard) but church and synagogue attendance is up. This might be an artifact of when the surveys were done in the course of the year, but it is an interesting difference between membership and attendance numbers from similar times.
There are other interesting numbers too.
Posted by Andy Morriss on
Friday December 16, 2005 at 5:19pm