A snapshot of British Quakers
Linda Murgatroyd writes, in the first of two articles, about the 2013 National Quaker Survey
In 2013 a team based at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre and associated with the universities of Birmingham and Lancaster carried out a major survey of British Quakers. The survey was a representative sample of adults attending Quaker Meetings on one of two particular Sundays.
The response rate was impressively high, with around eighty per cent of the sample and 654 forms returned. The paper questionnaires carried detailed questions about people’s spiritual experience, religious beliefs, values and Quaker participation, as well as their paid work and voluntary service. The questions had been carefully tested, and many of them were repeated from other surveys to allow comparisons to be made. The results from this survey were presented and compared with other surveys at a recent Woodbrooke weekend led by Ben Pink Dandelion, Jennifer Hampton and Simon Best. The analyses used here draw on their work, though the opinions are my own.
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