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

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dc.contributor.authorMacourt, Malcolm. P. A.
dc.contributor.editorKapalo, James
dc.contributor.editorButler, Jenny
dc.contributor.editorHeinhold, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-11T08:39:00Z
dc.date.available2017-08-11T08:39:00Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn 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 marketresearch 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.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationMacourt, M. P. A. 2017. '‘National Identity’ and ‘Religious Profession’: The Census in Northern Ireland 2011', Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions 5, pp. 69 - 90.en
dc.identifier.endpage90
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage69
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4433
dc.identifier.volume5
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://jisasr.org/current-issue-volume-5-2017/
dc.rights©2017, The Author(s).en
dc.subjectCensusen
dc.subjectPopulationen
dc.subjectNational identityen
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden
dc.subjectOpinionen
dc.title‘National Identity’ and ‘Religious Profession’: The Census in Northern Ireland 2011en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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