‘National Identity’ and ‘Religious Profession’: The Census in Northern Ireland 2011

In the new millennium a key issue being addressed in the construction of censuses is: Is it appropriate for censuses to include questions which go beyond matters of fact to involve memory or opinion? Questions which clearly involve opinion are usually either the subject of elections and referendums...

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Auteur principal: Macourt, Malcome P.A. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: [publisher not identified] 2017
Dans: Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions
Année: 2017, Volume: 5, Pages: 69-90
Sujets non-standardisés:B Plantes
B Opinion
B Religion
B Recensement
B Northern Ireland
B National Identity
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Résumé:In the new millennium a key issue being addressed in the construction of censuses is: Is it appropriate for censuses to include questions which go beyond matters of fact to involve memory or opinion? Questions which clearly involve opinion are usually either the subject of elections and referendums or are contained in opinion research - perhaps conducted by academics or by a commercial market research organisation. Two inquiries on the boundary between ‘fact’ and ‘matter of opinion’ are those concerning religious profession and national identity. In Ireland religious profession was first introduced into the Census in 1861, national identity was introduced for the first time in 2011. This paper focuses on how far census data can be used to examine whether claimed religion and religion ‘brought up in’ are linked to national identity and what part (if any) residential location, age and socio-economic position play in any such link.
ISSN:2009-7409
Contient:Enthalten in: Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions