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BY Gregory A. Smith
2021年12月14日 — U.S. religious landscape, including shifts in Americans' religious affiliation and observance. To do this, researchers looked at a variety of surveys conducted by the Center since 2007. The most recent data is from the Center’s 2020 and 2021 National Public Opinion Reference Surveys (NPORS).
The Landscape Survey confirms the close link between Americans’ religious affiliation, beliefs and practices, on the one hand, and their social and political attitudes, on the other. Indeed, the survey demonstrates that the social and political fault lines in American society run through, as well as alongside, religious traditions.
The samples from these political polls are not as large as the Landscape Studies (even when all of the political polls conducted in a year are combined), but together, 88 surveys from 2009 to 2019 included interviews with 168,890 Americans. These surveys do not include nearly as many questions about religion as the Landscape Studies do.
2014 RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE STUDY (RLS-II) FINAL TOPLINE June 4-September 30, 2014 N=35,071 Note: figures may not sum to 100, and nested figures may not sum to subtotals indicated, due to rounding. Some questions held for future release. Now I have some background questions… ASK ALL:
To help address this shortcoming, the Landscape Survey was conducted in both English and Spanish, allowing for a more accurate representation of the religious affiliation of Latinos, who constitute nearly half of foreign-born adults in the U.S. It should be kept in mind, however, that even the Landscape Survey was not truly bilingual in nature.
any religion. For details on the religious composition of the U.S., see Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study. Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims make up much larger shares of the global population than of the U.S. population.
2021年1月14日 — including those from the Center’s flagship Religious Landscape Studies, which were conducted by phone in 2007 and 2014. In recent years, figures from the ATP have not matched those from telephone surveys on some key measures – even when questions are asked exactly the same way.
Source: 2014 Religious Landscape Study, conducted June 4-Sept. 30, 2014. Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding. The index is created by combining four individual measures of religious observance - self-assessment of religion’s importance in one’s life, religious attendance, frequency of prayer, and belief in God.
was done for “The Global Religious Landscape” report. That study was based on a country-by-country analysis of data from more than 2,500 national censuses, large-scale surveys and official population registers that were collected, evaluated and standardized by Pew Research staff and, in 1 See Johnson , Todd M. and Brian J. Grim. 2013 ...
political surveys. In the Religious Landscape Study reports, Jehovah’s Witnesses are categorized as a separate religious tradition, and Christian Scientists are part of the “Other Christian” category. There is no equivalent to the “Other Christian” category in the …