Partnering with Social Explorer (www.socialexplorer.com), the ARDA is introducing interactive maps and reports for demographic, economic, and religious data. GIS maps allow you to visually see the social landscape of neighborhoods, cities, states, regions, and the entire United States.
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Easily compare up to eight countries on a variety of demographic, social, economic and religious measures.
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Allows you to customize the online tables you receive when reviewing survey questions. Custom Cross-tabs lets you change row-column choices and percentaging method for many surveys files.
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Now allows you to sort the report by adherents, adherence rate, or number of congregations. The new reports also include data from the 1980 Church and Church Membership Study and calculate change from 1980 to 2000.
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Inspired by our QuickStats on major national surveys, we are now introducing QuickStats for religious groups. This feature reviews the group’s history, membership trends, and regional distribution in the United States, as well as directing you to any relevant surveys of the group in the ARDA.
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In its continuing effort to provide innovative resources for exploring religion in the United States and abroad, the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) is announcing the launch of a new Learning Center. The Learning Center includes downloadable Learning Modules, a Glossary of Religious and Statistical Terms, the Compare Yourself Survey, and Community Religious Profile.
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The ARDA is pleased to celebrate 10 years of providing online access to the highest quality data on religion. Housed in the Social Science Research Institute and the Department of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University, the ARDA is funded by the Lilly Endowment, the John Templeton Foundation, the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, and the Pennsylvania State University. As we celebrate 10 years of service, we are excited to announce major updates to our site.
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This feature allows you to quickly find the states, counties or metro areas with the most adherents or highest adherence rate for a particular religious group. Also, find rankings of nations’ religious demographics and religious freedom.
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Using Google Maps technology, the National Profiles now allow you to zoom in and out on a nation's map and switch to a satellite image of the area. Start exploring these new maps by going to the National Profiles area of the ARDA.
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