Religious Studies: Statistics

Survey from 2008 (previous surveys were conducted in 2001 and 1990) that includes the following sections: national statistics on belonging, belief, and behavior; demography of religious traditions; religious identification and social change between 1990-2008; education; and geography and religion.

Serves as an archive for datasets supporting the study of religion in the U.S. Also includes tools for online analysis and mapping, as well as information on international religous freedom data (e.g., country reports on religious freedom that include religious adherence for the past decade), national profiles, U.S. congregational membership, U.S. denominations, and more.

CARA is a national, non-profit, Georgetown University affiliated research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission:
to increase the Church's self understanding
to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers
to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism

To present summaries of current religion research by Hartford Institute for Religion Research faculty as well as the research done by other sociologists of religion.
By making this research available online, we hope to educate pastors, denominational leaders, religion reporters and the general public in a better understanding of research on religion in order to help create stronger communities of faith and a more informed society.
Finally, we hope to assist the site's users in understanding the use of statistics and poll data, designing church web sites, on searching the web for information, and the implications of the Internet on religious life.

An international consortium of more than 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

The Pew Research Centers Religion & Public Life Project, launched in 2001 as the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.

The Pew Research Centers Religion & Public Life Project, launched in 2001 as the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.

Based on interviews with more than 35,000 American adults, this extensive survey by the Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project details the religious makeup, religious beliefs and practices as well as social and political attitudes of the American public. This online section includes dynamic tools that complement the full report. For a video overview and related material, go to the resource page.

The World Values Survey (WVS) is a worldwide network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The WVS in collaboration with EVS (European Values Study) carried out representative national surveys in more than 100 countries containing almost 90 percent of the world's population. These surveys show pervasive changes in what people want out of life and what they believe. In order to monitor these changes, the EVS/WVS has executed six waves of surveys, from 1981 to 2013.