The Reliability of Historical United States Census Data on Religion

Data on religious organizations and membership collected by the United States census through 1936 are of immense scholarly value if concerns about their reliability can be laid to rest. In this note I summarize reasons for trusting these data and compare the 1926 census report for Seattle with a 192...

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Main Author: Stark, Rodney (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 1992
In: Sociological analysis
Year: 1992, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-95
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