Religious Institution Survey Information

Question

I am after some data to assist in analysing religious bodies to detailed things like: -

• the frequency of attendance
• Giving/tithe
• demographic breakdown
• location data of the particular church/mosque/temple/etc.
• size of the members and adherents
• etc ...

But these data I am interested in finding out not on a national level, but on an individual church/mosque/temple basis. Some trending data would be great too.

I can find some data around these for USA institutions, but for the UK/Australia/Canada/NZL and other countries would be great too!

Answer 1

When it comes to spatial data you can give the Openstreemap a shot. You can get individual country data from geofabrik.de. I validated for New Zealand and from the Australia and Oceania area. From there you download the "New Zealand shapefile and open the shapefile called "gis.osm_pofw_free_1.shp" this will get you all different churches/temples.

Looking for the other data I can only speak from my experience in Germany but you wont get those details like attendance for single churches because of data protection issues. I found a simple statistic for Germany through:

• Catholics (german) and low spatial resolution
• Evangelic