Finding Data & Statistics: People: Religion

Very large survey file in SPSS format with data on religious preference with specific denominations and attendance religious services, belief in afterlife and spirituality.

Select Religion as a category, then subcategory by denomination.

The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) holds over 200 surveys on religion, including general population surveys, surveys of selected religious groups, surveys of religious professionals, and aggregate church, congregational and denominational data.

This data set offers information on Americans' opinions about the role of the arts relative to religion.

Measures U.S. attitudes toward social and public policy issues, economic status, political events, work, and family life. Coverage dates: 1972 - present

A crossnational collaborative program that develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys in more than 20 countries. Topics have included religion, family and gender roles, role of the government, social inequality, the environment, and work attitudes.

A nationally representative study of congregations carried out via interviews with congregational informants, mostly clergy. Conducted in conjunction with the 1998 General Social Survey (GSS). Respondents reported on a wide variety of congregational activities. A sample size of 1236.

The National Survey of Youth and Religion (NSYR) is a nationally representative telephone survey of English and Spanish-speaking teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 (in 2003), and their parents.

National Survey of Black Americans 1979-1980, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, 1992 (ICPSR)
The survey investigates neighborhood-community integration, services, crime and community contact, the role of religion and the church, physical and mental health, self-esteem, life satisfaction, employment, the effects of chronic unemployment, the effects of race on the job, interaction with family and friends, racial attitudes, race identity, group stereotypes, and race ideology.

The North American Jewish Data Bank is a repository for demographic and other quantitative social scientific surveys about Jews in the United States and Canada. It archives the National Jewish Population Surveys as well as a number of community surveys.