What church officials' reports don't show: another look at church attendance data
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Data on church attendance rates of couples refute Hadaway and his associates' conclusion that attendance rates in the US are grossly overvalued by 200%. They arrived at this observation after a survey they made on Protestant churches in Ashtabula County, OH, and 18 Catholic churches across the US. The ratio of actual attendance is closer to 1.1 to 1 than 2 to 1 based on data on church attendance rates of intellectuals. The researchers must have merely relied on pastors, secretaries and other church employees as sources of their statistics on church attendance.
Publication Name: American Sociological Review
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0003-1224
Year: 1998
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Survey introductions and data quality
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The influence of the interaction during an interviewer's request for views on subsequent data showed that there is a link between statements made during the introduction and the differences in data quality and substantive responses. The introduction shows the potential attitude of the respondents.
Publication Name: Public Opinion Quarterly
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0033-362X
Year: 1997
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