Religious Statistics  

Helpful background on methods and interpretation of numbers from the Hartford Institute for Religious Research.

See the elementary concepts link.

Articles from the W. M. Keck Project of Augsburg University. Scroll down for introductory materials.

Cautions about how statistics are misused in our culture and advocacy for statistical literacy.

Links compiled by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.

Download maps that look at spread of denominations in the U.S. by location, penetration, percentage change between 2000 and 2010, and community type.

Compare national profiles, examine denominational data, and see the QuickLists and QuickStats for topics of belief, practice, and identity.

A research center based at Georgetown University that conducts social science research about the Catholic church. They also publish the CARA Report.

A site devoted to gathering statistical and geographic references to religions, religious groups, and religious phenomena from around the world.

The religion and public life data archive.

Comparisions, reports, maps, beliefs and practices, and demographic characteristics.

Includes tutorials, a quick user's guide, and a basic guide to cross-cultural research

The Odum Institute is a research unit based at UNC-Chapel Hill. They have numerous data sets available via their web catalog.

Contains data from the General Social Surveys.

Requires Emory login. Includes detailed information on 9,000 Christian denominations and on religions in every country of the world. Extensive data are available on 239 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces.

The strength of this collection is the inclusion of research on non-dominant religions in America. It can be searched by region or tradition. Much of the research is qualitative.

The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world. (From the website)