Roman Catholic was the most common religion affiliation in Argentina in 2023. In a survey carried out in 2023, roughly 67.8 percent of Argentinian respondents claimed to be of catholic faith, whereas the second most chosen religion was Evangelism, with 6.3 percent of the people interviewed. Over 16 percent of respondents answered they didn't profess any religion.

During a survey conducted in 2023, approximately 54 percent of respondents in 17 Latin American countries claimed to be catholic. Meanwhile, 14.9 percent of the people participating in the survey said they did not profess any religion.In Mexico, more than 69 percent of respondents said they professed Catholicism. Particularly in Honduras, Colombia and Ecuador, most Christians think religion is very important in their lives.

The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel. The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic. The Jewish population in the U.S. is largely congregated in major urban areas, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with the New York metropolitan area being the city with the second largest Jewish population worldwide, after Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel is the world's only officially Jewish state, having been founded in 1948 following the first Arab-Israeli War. While Jews had been emigrating to the holy lands since the nineteenth century, when they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, immigration increased rapidly following the establishment of the state of Israel. Jewish communities in Eastern Europe who had survived the Holocaust saw Israel as a haven from persecution, while the state encouraged immigration from Jewish communities in other regions, notably the Middle East & North Africa. Smaller Jewish communities remain in Europe in countries such as France, the UK, and Germany, and in other countries which were hotspots for Jewish migration in the twentieth century, such as Canada and Argentina.

Abstract

The World Values Survey (www.worldvaluessurvey.org) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life, led by an international team of scholars, with the WVS association and secretariat headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire. The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. Moreover the WVS is the only academic study covering the full range of global variations, from very poor to very rich countries, in all of the world’s major cultural zones. The WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world. Thousands of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and economists have used these data to analyze such topics as economic development, democratization, religion, gender equality, social capital, and subjective well-being. These data have also been widely used by government officials, journalists and students, and groups at the World Bank have analyzed the linkages between cultural factors and economic development.

Geographic coverage

Argentina

Analysis unit

Household Individual

Universe

National Population, Both sexes,18 and more years

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Sampling procedure

Sample size: 1280 The sampling method applied was stratified according to criteria and Random Multi- Stage in the selection process of the sampling units. After stratifying the nation geographically and by size of community in order to insure conformity of the sample with the latest available estimates by National Census of the distribution of the adult population, 262 different sampling locations or areas were selected on a random basis. The interviewers had no choice whatsoever concerning the part of the city in which they conduct their interviews. Approximately five interviews were conducted in each such randomly selected sampling point. Interviewers were given maps of the area to which they were assigned, with a starting point indicated; they were required. The selection of the final sample unit was selected according predetermined age and sex quotas. These quotas were established according the distribution of these variables in each locality/ city. The procedures described above, were designed to produce samples approximating the adult civilian population (18 and older) living in private household (that is, excluding those in prisons, hospitals, hotels, religious, and educational institutions and those living on reservations or military bases). Also substitution was permitted. There was a specified direction, interviewers should follow. After a successful interview, the interviewer should leave 4 households and make an interview at the 5Th household. If there was a refusal or it was out of target, they tried in the household immediately after the one selected by the probabilistic sample. Geographical stratification was used: division of the country in Regions and Population density.

Remarks about sampling: -Final number of clusters or sampling points: 262. -Sample unit from office sampling: household.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The WVS questionnaire was translated from the English questionnaire by a member of the research team. The translated questionnaire was not back-translated into English; however the translated questionnaire was pre-tested. There have been some optional WVS questions and country-specific questions included since we carried out the fourth wave in early 1999 and we did not want to loose trends we included some items that were asked in the previous wave. Nevertheless, a number of questions were omitted: V145A/B/C/D/E/F and V237 Agreement/disagreement with Television is my most important form of entertainment. The reason was because we did not receive those questions at the moment we launch this wave in Argentina.

Response rate

Rate of non response: 25%