Description & Citation--Study No. 14

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

00014

Survey of Churches and Church Membership by County, 1952

National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. SURVEY OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH MEMBERSHIP BY COUNTY, 1952. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 197?. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00014.v1

Scope of Study

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.

church membership, counties, religion, religious congregations, religious denominations, religious organizations

United States

• 1952

All counties in the United States in the year 1952.

administrative records data, and census data

Methodology

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

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1984-03-18