Survey of Churches and Church Membership by County, 1952 (ICPSR 14)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00014.v1

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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.

Citation

National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Survey of Churches and Church Membership by County, 1952. [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00014.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1952
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Universe

All counties in the United States in the year 1952.

Data Source

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

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-03-18

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Survey of Churches and Church Membership by County, 1952. ICPSR00014-v1. [distributor], 2020-01-22. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00014.v1

1984-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

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