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• Faith Communities Today — Findings of the largest survey of congregations in the U.S.
  
  
• American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) — Sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, ARDA collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion. The site is a place to locate data files for topics of interest, rather than a place to read the results of surveys. When you search under a topic, you can review the results on-line or save the survey questions to a "Question Bank" to construct your own survey.
  
  
• Resources for American Christianity — Database of projects funded by the Lilly Endowment.
  
  
• Adherents.com — Collection of over 48,000 statistics and religious geography citations; references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cutlures, movements.
  
  
• North American Jewish Data Bank — Established by the Council of Jewish Federations and the Center for Jewish Studies of the Graduate School and University Center of the City of New York. Its primary role is to act as the repository for computer-based population and survey data on Jewish communities in the U.S. and Canada.
  
  
• Barna Research Online — "A full-service marketing research company located in Ventura, California. BRG has been providing information and analysis regarding cultural trends and the Christian Church since 1984."
  
  
• National Study of Youth and Religion — This Lilly Endowment funded initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studies whether youths age 13-17 are influenced by religion and spirituality.

• Louisville Institute — The Louisville Institute is a foundation that funds research on religion and congregations. The page has links to a number of religious research centers or religious data web pages.
  
  
• Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture — At Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
  
  
• Polis Center — A research center at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis that does research on religion in urban settings; religion and community organizing
  
  
• Center of Religion and Civic Culture — At the University of Southern California. Run by Professor Donald Miller (author of Reinventing American Protestantism (1997, U. Calf. Press)
  
  
• Hartford Institute for Religion Research — Resources for the study of congregations.
  
  
• Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals — At Wheaton College. Publishes a variety of materials which can be purchased.
  
  

• Offstats: Official Statistics on the Web — "Free and easily accessible statistics from official sources."
  
  
• Social Sciences Data on the Net — links to 850 web sites, including sites with data, research centers, and other sources for obtaining data.
  
  
• SDA Archive — Includes links to a vareity of survey data bases: including the General Social Survey (GSS). This also includes access to statistical software so you can crunch numbers (at least on the GSS) at the site.
  
  
• Social Science Data Resources — Web page from Trinity College with links to a variety of social science data sources (including US Bureau of Labor and Census Bureau).
  
  
• The Gallup Organization — Request public opinion poll data and view various polls online.
  
  
• The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) — Link to the archive of the social science survey data repository at the University of Michigan.
  
  
• Princeton University Survey Research Center
  
  
• U.S. Census Bureau
  
  
• Urban Institute — In Washington, DC. Good site for current research on urban issues like housing and poverty as well as for public policy.
  
  
• Generation X Internet On-Ramp — Links to sites related to Generation X — religion, culture, poltics, business, Gen X in other countries outside the US.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) — Provides summaries of and links to sites with data related to education in the United States and other nations, links to other federal agencies, and State Department of Education agencies.

Last updated November 27, 2006