Religion

Website provides access to the Institute's "ISR Reports", full text of the Institute's "Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion", case studies, and occasional "ISR Special Research Reports."

"...a series of ongoing research surveys and practical reports about congregational life, conducted and published by the Cooperative Congregations Studies Partnership, a multi-faith group of religious researchers and faith leaders." -- Information about the Faith Communities Today Project

"The National Congregations Study (NCS) is an ongoing national survey effort to gather information about the basic characteristics of America's congregations." -- About the National Congregations Study

Studies conducted to date: 1998, 2006-07, and 2012.

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

The Pew Forum conducts surveys, demographic analyses and other social science research on important aspects of religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world." -- About the Pew Forum

Provides access to statistical data sources on "international religious composition." Data comes from a variety of sources including (but not limited to) statistical questionnaires returned by churches and national collaborators over the period 1982-2000; field surveys and interviews...in more than 200 countries...over the years 1965-2000...; unpublished documentation for all countries, etc. Information is readily available on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demographic statistics. Additional secular data is incorporated on population, health, education, and communications. Searchable by keyword. Useful to a wide variety of researchers of the development of World Christianity from the mid-twentieth century to today.

The Gallup Poll has built its reputation on delivering relevant, timely, and visionary research on what people around the world think and feel.

Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and int. relations.

Resource for building statistical tables from licensed and public domain datasets.