In 2021, nearly ** percent of respondents aged 16 and over in Poland belonged to the Church or religious association, with the most significant percentage (** percent) belonging to the Catholic Church. Denominations in Poland In 2021, Christianity was the dominant religion in Poland, establishing 125 registered denominations. The Christian faith had over 33 million adherents. Also, Poland had 207 churches and religious associations in the same year, with Protestant denominations accounting for the most significant percentage. A forecast of the religious composition of Poland in 2010 shows changes in the number of affiliates by 2050. While there were over 36 million Christians in 2010, their number was expected to decrease to almost 29 million over the next 40 years. The study predicted an *****-fold increase in the number of Muslims. An unbound community is expected to double. Public opinion on religion and religiosity Although most Poles are Catholics, their religiosity is decreasing year by year. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the scale of participation in Sunday Mass and the sacramental life of Polish Catholics. The proportion of people attending Sunday Mass dropped to **** percent in 2021. Due to the pandemic restrictions, the number of people receiving Holy Communion also decreased.Most Poles agreed with the presence of crosses in public buildings in 2021. In contrast, only ** percent of respondents favored priests instructing people on how to vote in elections. Almost every second respondent in Poland had a negative opinion about Muslims in 2019.

Nearly **** out of 10 Poles stated they belonged to the Roman Catholic Church in 2024. The share of those who did not belong to any religion was more than ***** percent.

Poland: Christians as percent of the total population: The latest value from 2013 is 98.5 percent, an increase from 98.3 percent in 2012. In comparison, the world average is 51.1 percent, based on data from 145 countries. Historically, the average for Poland from 1960 to 2013 is 94.3 percent. The minimum value, 89.9 percent, was reached in 1960 while the maximum of 98.5 percent was recorded in 2013.

In 2024, almost four in 10 Polish believers professed faith and practiced it regularly, an eight percentage points decrease compared to 2020.

In 2021, ********** were the most numerous religious group in Poland. However, a downward trend in the number of believers can be observed in the presented period. Nevertheless, nearly ** percent of Poles belonged to the Catholic Church in 2021.

Poland: Non religious people as percent of the population: The latest value from is percent, unavailable from percent in . In comparison, the world average is 0.0 percent, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Poland from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

This data collection provides county- and state-level information on the number of members of a variety of religious organizations and groups in the United States between 1906 and 1936. The variables in this collection provide the names of these groups and organizations, which include the Advent Christian Church, Southern and National Convention Baptist churches, Buddhist (Japanese) temples, Evangelical Association, Jewish congregations, Greek Orthodox Church, Mennonite Church, Friends Church, Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, Polish National Church, Roman Catholic Church, Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventist, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Russian Eastern Orthodox Church, Mennonite General Conference, Hungarian Reformed Church, Unitarian Church, Negro Baptist Church, and Evangelical Church.

The majority of Poles are believers, with nine percent of them being firm believers in 2024.

In 2021, Christianity was the dominant religion in Poland, establishing *** registered denominations.

Participation in religious services held in a church.

From 2018 to 2024, the share of students attending religious classes in Poland steadily declined, and reached a minimum of less than 80 percent in the 2023/2024 school year.

In 2024, one in three Poles participated in religious practices such as masses, services, or religious meetings at least once a week, while one in five declared that they did not participate at all.

The logistic regression analysis predicting increase in religious commitment based on respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics (N = 1761*).

Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specificinformation on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys The variable overview of the four EVS waves 1981 1990 1999/2000 and 2008 allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording within and across the EVS waves.These overviews can be found at:Extended Study DescriptionVariable Overview Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values ofEuropeans.Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friendsand acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency ofpolitical discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of ownhealth; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfareservices, religious or church organisations, education, or culturalactivities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions,human rights, environmental or peace movement, professionalassociations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntaryassociations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towardsminorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race,left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families,emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drugaddicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance);trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour;internal or external control; satisfaction with life.2. Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selectedaspects of occupational work; employment status; general worksatisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work(work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitudetowards following instructions at work without criticism (obediencework); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men overwomen in jobs.3. Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil;religious denomination; current and former religious denomination;current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importanceof religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral;self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers tomoral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and socialproblems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven,sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; ownway of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or thesupernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion;importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfortand strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer andmeditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman(10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state. 4. Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successfulmarriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home withfather and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled,marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent);attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure(scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role ofman and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards:respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for theirchildren and the responsibility of adult children for their parentswhen they are in need of long-term care; importance of educationalgoals; attitude towards abortion.5. Politics and society: political interest; political participation;preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessmenton a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility orgovernmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployedor no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness ofcompetition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes orincentives for individual efforts; attitude concerning capitalismversus government ownership; postmaterialism (scale); expectation offuture development (less emphasis on money and material possessions,greater respect for authority); trust in institutions; satisfactionwith democracy; assessment of the political system of the country asgood or bad (10-point-scale); preferred type of political system(strong leader, expert decisions, army should rule the country, ordemocracy); attitude towards democracy (scale).6. Moral attitudes (scale: claiming state benefits withoutentitlement, cheating on taxes, joyriding, taking soft drugs, lying,adultery, bribe money, homosexuality, abortion, divorce, euthanasia,suicide, corruption, paying cash, casual sex, avoiding fare on publictransport, prostitution, experiments with human embryos, geneticmanipulation of food, insemination or in-vitro fertilization and deathpenalty).7. National identity: geographical group the respondent feelsbelonging to (town, region

Religious commitment during the pandemic.

From 2022 to 2024, students from elementary and special schools in Poland were the most likely to attend religious lessons, while those from advanced vocational schools were the least likely to attend.

This survey is a not up-to-date version. Please, use the updated version included in the EVS integrated data files. This national dataset is only available for replication purposes and analysis with additional country-specific variables (see ´Further Remarks´).

Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.

The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specific information on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys The variable overview of the four EVS waves 1981 1990 1999/2000 and 2008 allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording within and across the EVS waves.

These overviews can be found at: Extended Study Description Variable Overview

Moral, religious, societal, political, work, and family values of Europeans.

Topics: 1. Perceptions of life: importance of work, family, friends and acquaintances, leisure time, politics and religion; frequency of political discussions with friends; happiness; self-assessment of own health; memberships and unpaid work (volunteering) in: social welfare services, religious or church organisations, education, or cultural activities, labour unions, political parties, local political actions, human rights, environmental or peace movement, professional associations, youth work, sports clubs, women´s groups, voluntary associations concerned with health or other groups; tolerance towards minorities (people with a criminal record, of a different race, left/right wing extremists, alcohol addicts, large families, emotionally unstable people, Muslims, immigrants, AIDS sufferers, drug addicts, homosexuals, Jews, gypsies and Christians - social distance); trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour; internal or external control; satisfaction with life.

1. Work: reasons for people to live in need; importance of selected aspects of occupational work; employment status; general work satisfaction; freedom of decision-taking in the job; importance of work (work ethics, scale); important aspects of leisure time; attitude towards following instructions at work without criticism (obedience work); give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men over women in jobs.

2. Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil; religious denomination; current and former religious denomination; current frequency of church attendance and at the age of 12; importance of religious celebration at birth, marriage, and funeral; self-assessment of religiousness; churches give adequate answers to moral questions, problems of family life, spiritual needs and social problems of the country; belief in God, life after death, hell, heaven, sin and re-incarnation; personal God versus spirit or life force; own way of connecting with the divine; interest in the sacred or the supernatural; attitude towards the existence of one true religion; importance of God in one´s life (10-point-scale); experience of comfort and strength from religion and belief; moments of prayer and meditation; frequency of prayers; belief in lucky charms or a talisman (10-point-scale); attitude towards the separation of church and state.

3. Family and marriage: most important criteria for a successful marriage (scale); attitude towards childcare (a child needs a home with father and mother, a woman has to have children to be fulfilled, marriage is an out-dated institution, woman as a single-parent); attitude towards marriage, children, and traditional family structure (scale); attitude towards traditional understanding of one´s role of man and woman in occupation and family (scale); attitude towards: respect and love for parents, parent´s responsibilities for their children and the responsibility of adult children for their parents when they are in need of long-term care; importance of educational goals; attitude towards abortion.

4. Politics and society: political interest; political participation; preference for individual freedom or social equality; self-assessment on a left-right continuum (10-point-scale); self-responsibility or governmental provision; free decision of job-taking of the unemployed or no permission to refuse a job; advantage or harmfulness of competition; liberty of firms or governmental control; equal incomes or incentives for indivi...

This is part of the global project on work addiction, which was financed by the National Science Centre, Poland, under grant no. 2020/39/D/HS6/00198 (“The role of macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors in work addiction and related health problems”). The project is led by the consortium of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland (Prof. Edyta Charzyńska) and the University of Gdańsk, Poland (Prof. Paweł A. Atroszko).

The dataset “Data” (available in CSV UTF-8 and XLSX formats) contains data collected from 176 full-time employed Buddhists living in Sri Lanka. The data were used to assess the prevalence of work addiction among Buddhists living and working in a Buddhist-majority country, examine the relationship between religiosity and work addiction, and explore the moderating roles of gender and age in this relationship. Data were collected online between November 2022 and February 2023 using the LimeSurvey platform.

Statistical analyses included calculating descriptive statistics, conducting reliability analysis, performing correlations, and conducting moderation analysis. The analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS version 28 (IBM Corp., 2021) and the PROCESS macro for SPSS, version 4.2 (Hayes, 2022).

List of Funding Sources:
This work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland [grant number 2020/39/D/HS6/00198].

The research activities related to Edyta Charzyńska’s research stay at the Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, from 1 to 30 June 2024, were co-financed by the funds granted under the Research Excellence Initiative and Gender Equality Plan at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Files Attached: (i) Dataset; (ii) Codebook; (iii) SPSS Output Matrix for Gender as a Moderator; (iv) SPSS Output Matrix for Age as a Moderator; and (V) README file.

Since 2018, the number of nuns and female religious houses in Poland have been slowly but steadily declining, reaching approximately 15,000 nuns and 2,000 houses in 2023.

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the scale of participation in Sunday Mass and the sacramental life of Polish Catholics. The proportion of people attending Sunday Mass dropped to **** percent in 2021. Due to the pandemic restrictions, the number of people receiving Holy Communion also decreased. In 2023, ** percent of Poles attended the Sunday Mass, a slight decrease from the previous year.