Newsletters Donate My Account. Research Topics. For details about the methodology employed for the and Religious Landscape Studies, click here. If the next Religious Landscape Study is conducted using a self-administered mode of survey administration e. This is because questions about religious identity, belief and practice can be sensitive, and some respondents may be reluctant to admit to interviewers that they are not religious. In the U. In other words, respondents may more honestly report low levels of religiosity in self-administered surveys, when no interviewer is present.
When prompted by a survey question to report how often they attend religious services, respondents who say they attend every week may be indicating that they see themselves as the kind of people who regularly go to services, rather than that they never miss a week of church. For a discussion of differences between self-reported attendance and actual attendance rates, see Brenner, Philip S. Overreporting of Church Attendance in the U.
Though this body of research suggests that attendance measures from surveys may not necessarily be the best gauge of the share of people who attend services in any given week, knowing whether respondents think of themselves as regular churchgoers is nevertheless very important because this measure of religious commitment often is correlated with other religious beliefs and practices, as well as with social and political attitudes.
In addition to the overreporting of church attendance that arises from asking respondents directly about how often they attend religious services, readers should bear in mind that telephone opinion surveys can produce overestimates of religious attendance due to high rates of nonresponse. What is your present religion, if any?
This analysis assesses how many respondents labeled their religious identity differently in than in These individuals sometimes may describe themselves as Protestants or Catholics or Jews or Muslims , and at other times may say they have no religion. See also Putnam, Robert D. In this analysis, we examine responses from ATP members who participated in each of two surveys — one conducted right after the election, and another conducted following the election.
There was no mass departure of White Americans from evangelical Protestantism between and There were more defections during this time period among White Protestants who did not identify as born-again or evangelical in There is no clear evidence that White evangelicals who opposed Trump were more likely than Trump supporters to leave the evangelical fold.
This group is defined as those who said they voted or would have voted for someone other than Trump in or or said they have a neutral or cold view of him at either point in time. Trump garnered even more support in than in among White voters who identified as evangelical Protestants in both years and voted in at least one of the two elections.
For example, he could have obtained high levels of support from new White evangelicals who joined the ranks of voters between and His share of the evangelical vote could also have been boosted if former evangelical voters i. It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions.
Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics. Pew Research Center now uses as the last birth year for Millennials in our work. President Michael Dimock explains why. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. Research Topics. Religions Explore religious groups in the U. Nondenominational Family Evangelical Trad.
Interdenominational Evangelical Trad. Other Nondenominational Evangelical Trad. Nondenominational Pentecostal Evangelical Trad.
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