U.S. Religion Census - Religious Congregations and Membership Study, 2020 (State File).
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
[University Park, Pennsylvania] : The Association of Religion Data Archives, 2023. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Association of Religion Data Archives
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- Contents
- Files available for download: Completely labeled SPSS file (.sav) -- Completely labeled Stata file -- Complete codebook with frequencies and percentages -- Complete codebook with frequencies and percentages up to 10 responses -- Codebook with variable descriptions only -- Fixed field ASCII file. Readme file with variable locations -- Use with Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet programs.
- Summary
- This study, designed and carried out by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB), compiled data on 372 religious bodies by county in the United States. Of these, the ASARB was able to gather data on congregations and adherents for 217 religious bodies and on congregations only for 155. Participating bodies included 354 Christian denominations, associations, or communions (including Latter-day Saints, Messianic Jews, and Unitarian/Universalist groups); counts of Jain, Shinto, Sikh, Tao, Zoroastrian, American Ethical Union, and National Spiritualist Association congregations, and counts of congregations and adherents from Baha'i, three Buddhist groupings, two Hindu groupings, and four Jewish groupings, and Muslims. The 372 groups reported a total of 356,642 congregations with 161,224,088 adherents, comprising 48.6 percent of the total U.S. population of 331,449,281. Membership totals were estimated for some religious groups. In January 2024, the ARDA added 21 religious tradition (RELTRAD) variables to this dataset. These variables start at variable #9 (TOTCNG_2020). Categories were assigned based on pages 88-94 in the original 2020 U.S. Religion Census Report. Visit the frequently asked questions page for more information about the ARDA's religious congregation and membership data sources.
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- Funding Information
- Funded by The Lilly Endowment, Inc..
Funded by The John Templeton Foundation.
Funded by The Church of the Nazarene.
Funded by Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Funded by Southern Baptist Convention.
Funded by United Church of Christ.
Funded by Glenmary Research Center. - Terms of Use and Reproduction
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