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Subject: Re: [OM] Moose Stats, was Nathan's PAD 21/5/2010: Boston car
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 06:21:52 +0100
I'm impressed at the size of the sample, Moose, but I should be most suspicious 
of statistics in a country with a population the size of that of the USA.  The 
variety of religions, spread across so many communities must make for skewed 
results on its own, leaving aside the sheer size of the population.  Still, I 
suppose that Gallup have had a little practice ...

Chris

On 22 May 2010, at 23:09, Moose wrote:

> I know the USA is seen as the country of the God Botherers. Still:
> --------------------------------------
> A USA Today/Gallup Poll in 2002-JAN showed that almost half of American 
> adults appear to be alienated from organized religion. If current trends 
> continue, most adults will not call themselves religious within a few 
> years. Results include:
> 
> About 50% consider themselves religious (down from 54% in 1999-DEC)
> About 33% consider themselves "/spiritual but not religious/" (up from 30%)
> About 10% regard themselves as neither spiritual or religious.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Polling data from the 2008 ARIS study:
> 
> This study was essentially a repeat of the 2001 poll. It involved 54,461 
> respondents.
> 
> Between 1990 and 2008, an interval of 18 years, some of the more notable 
> changes were.
> -     The percentage of American adults [who] identify themselves with a 
> specific religion dropped from 89.5% to 79.9%:
> 
> -     Americans who identify themselves as Christian dropped from 86.2 
> to 76.0 -- a loss of 10.2 percentage points in 18 years -- about 0.6 
> percentage points per year. A similar decline was observed in Canada.
> 
> -     Americans identifying themselves as Protestant dropped from 60.0 
> to 50.9%.
> 
> -     Catholics declined from 26.2% to 25.1%
> 
> -     Religious Jews declined from1.8% to 1.2%.
> 
> -     Muslims increased from 0.3 to 0.6%.
> 
> -     The fastest growing religion (in terms of percentage) is Wicca -- 
> a Neopagan religion that is sometimes referred to as Witchcraft.
>              -     From 1990 to 2001: Numbers of adherents went from 
> 8,000 to 134,000.
> 
> -     15.0% (14.1%) do not follow any organized religion. There are more 
> Americans who say they are not affiliated with any organized religion 
> than there are Episcopalians, Methodists, and Lutherans combined.
> 
> Religiously Statistical Moose

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