Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
This appendix provides an overview of the data sources and analytic approaches used in the report. The general population data underlying this study come from 106 countries for religious identity, 106 countries for the importance of religion, 105 countries for prayer frequency and 102 countries for religious service attendance. The countries where religious service attendance […]
This study, sponsored by Pew Research Center, used online opt-in survey data collected by three commercial vendors. Each vendor provided their own sample and administered the survey themselves, based on a common questionnaire. While no vendor makes the claim that that these are probability-based samples, they are intended to represent the noninstitutionalized U.S. adult population, […]
This is the ninth time Pew Research Center has measured restrictions on religion around the globe.[75. numoffset=”75″ See Methodology of Pew Research Center’s 2009 report “Global Restrictions on Religion” for a discussion of the conceptual basis for measuring restrictions on religion.] This report, which includes data for the year ending Dec. 31, 2016, generally follows the […]