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In 2010 the Evangelical Alliance began a major research programme which would enable it to understand more fully the lives and concerns of its constituency of Evangelical Christians across the United Kingdom. In 2010 over 17,000 people, connected in some way with evangelical churches and networks, completed a questionnaire about their beliefs, religious practices, opinions on political and moral questions and on their involvement and activism in the community. Over 12,500 of them defined themselves as Evangelical Christians. Paper questionnaires were distributed at major Christian events and festivals, and through a sample of Evangelical Alliance member churches across the UK. Subsequently a research panel, recruited in the first place from the 17,000 has been asked to take part in online surveys four times each year, with each wave of the survey concentrating on a specific theme or topic known to be of interest to the Alliance and/or its member organisations and churches. In the first online survey conducted around Easter 2011 over 1,150 people responded, in the Church Life survey carried out in November 2012 over 1,864 replies were analysed. Further information is available on the Evangelical Alliance 21st Century Evangelicals webpages. End User Licence and Special Licence data: Users should note that there are two versions of each Twenty-First Century Evangelicals study. One is available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement (SN 7787), and the other is a Special Licence (SL) version (SN 7786). The SL version contains the text responses to the open-ended questions. The EUL version excludes the text responses to the open-ended questions. The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version. Therefore, users are strongly advised to order the standard version of the data. Latest edition information: For the fourth edition (February 2017), data and documentation for a new survey have been added. The survey has the theme of 'Religions, Belief and Unbelief' and covers views of secularism, religious diversity and interfaith relations. Further information is available from an article published in the IDEA magazine.
Main Topics:
The surveys carried out between 2010 and 2016 cover the following topics: Christian spirituality and learningemployment issueslife in the churchexperiences of and attitudes about schooling and educationevangelismfinancial matters and povertyinternational and global links and issuesuse of old and new mediaexperience of and views about contemporary familiesfaith in politics and voting intentions and issues pre-2015 electionlocal community and neighbourhoodsbasic beliefs, religious practices and civic involvementhealth and wellbeingethical consumerism church leaders and their church’s approach to Evangelismdifferent life experiences of the different generations, from boomers born before 1960 to millennials born in the 1990s'what is Evangelicalism?' to coincide with the 170th anniversary of the foundationsecularism, religious diversity and interfaith relations
Simple random sample
Self-completion
Internet-based survey
