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Description & Citation--Study No. 14

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:14
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00014
 
Title:Survey of Churches and Church Membership by County, 1952
 
Principal Investigator(s):National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
 
Bibliographic Citation:National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. SURVEY OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH MEMBERSHIP BY COUNTY, 1952 [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 197?. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00014
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains information about church and religious organization membership by county in the United States for the year 1952. Information is provided on the number and percentage of members in churches such as the Congregational Christian, Methodist, Protestant Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and Jewish congregations, as well as the percentage of the total population who are church members and those belonging to other faiths. Demographic variables provide information on median age, income, and education.
 
Subject Term(s):church membership, counties, religion, religious congregations, religious denominations, religious organizations
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1952
 
Universe:All counties in the United States in the year 1952.
 
Data Type:administrative records data, and census data
 

Methodology

Data Source:United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census, and church records
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-03-18
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Survey of Churches and Church Membership by County, 1952
 

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