This statistic shows the religious affiliation of Canadian citizens, permanent and non-permanent residents of British Columbia in 2011. Roughly 2 million Canadian citizens, permanent and non-permanent residents of British Columbia identified as Christian in 2011.

The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion is a product of the Database of Religious History (DRH). The DRH is a qualitative-quantitative encyclopedic database of historical religious data across time and space. Data are contributed to the project by academic experts and overseen by a panel of editors. The data take the form of answers (provided by experts) to a long list of standard questions grounded in time and space.

The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion is “standard” in a different way than its namesake, The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS). The SCCS was designed to control for region and cultural relatedness. Because of our mostly bottom-up, expert-driven data gathering method, DRH data is heavily overweighted in certain time/space regions. Analysts will have to control for this as they see fit.

On the other hand, DRH data is “standard” in the sense that whatever Group, Place of Text is being portrayed, experts are answering a standardized set of questions, allowing a degree of comparison and quantitative analysis that has simply never been possible before. As the DRH grows, top-down data-gathering pushes will be targeted at underrepresented regions of the world, with the goal of making future versions of the SCCSR more and more comprehensive.

The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion (SCCSR.v2) is provided under CC-BY-4.0 license.

Religious persecution is common in many countries around the globe. There is little evidence on its long-term effects. We collect new data from all across Spain, using information from over 67,000 trials held by the Spanish Inquisition between 1480 and 1820. This comprehensive new database allows us to demonstrate that municipalities of Spain with a history of stronger inquisitorial presence show lower economic performance, educational attainment, and trust today. The effects persist after controlling for historical indicators of religiosity and wealth, ruling out potential selection bias.

Census data showed employment reached an estimated 16 021 200 in 2006, up 1 326 000 from 2001. Just two western provinces - Alberta and British Columbia - accounted for a third of this increase. During the same five-year period, the unemployment rate fell in every province and territory, except Ontario and the Northwest Territories. The shift in industrial demand for workers to different parts of the economy had an impact on the occupational make-up of the nation. The map shows by census subdivision the percentage of the population employed in social sciences, education, government services and religion.

The Provincial Diversity Project is a survey aimed at comparing public opinions realities across provinces on identity and attachment, views about federalism, attitudes toward ethnic diversity and immigration, as well as views on social, economic and political issues. The Provincial Diversity Project is led by Antoine Bilodeau (Concordia University) along with Luc Turgeon (Ottawa), Stephen E. White (Carleton) and Ailsa Henderson (Edinburgh). The Provincial Diversity Project survey was conducted in the winter of 2014 among close to 10,000 Canadians through an internet survey conducted by Léger Marketing. The Provincial Diversity Project survey includes three components. A sample of 6400 Canadians stratified by province: 1000 respondents in each of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia; 500 Canadians in each of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; and 400 Canadians in Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. [PROJ=2] An oversample of visible minority Canadians stratified by province with about 400 respondents in each of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.[PROJ=3] An oversample of young Canadians (aged 18 to 34) stratified by region: 350 respondents in each of the following regions: the Atlantic, Ontario, the Prairies, and British Columbia, and 500 respondents in Quebec. [PROJ=1] The Provincial Diversity Project was realized with the support of Concordia University, the Secrétariat aux affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes du Québec, the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society, the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Chaire de recherche du Canada en études québécoises et canadiennes de l'UQAM.

Abstract

Objective: Vaccination hesitancy and conspiracy beliefs are a threat to achieving population immunity in Covid-19. This study aimed to clarify the association between these and incentives to vaccination in the UK.

Design: In a longitudinal study, we collected UK public data at three time points: 1) before and 2) after the development of a vaccine, and 3) after the vaccination programme was underway.

Main Outcome Measures: Vaccination hesitancy; general and Covid-19 specific concerns about vaccination; belief in conspiracy theories.

Results: Vaccination hesitancy decreased between Times 1 (54%) and 3 (13%). Most concerns and reported incentives related to safety, though at Time 2, incentives included endorsement by trusted public figures. We found only small effects of conspiracy belief, and only at Time 1. A minority of participants remained anti-vaccination and stated nothing would change their minds.

Conclusion: Vaccination hesitancy seems to be falling the UK. However, anxiety about safety remains and could jeopardise the vaccination programme should any adverse effects be reported. Conspiracy beliefs seem to play only a minor role in hesitancy and may continue to decrease in importance with a successful vaccination programme. Understanding motivations behind vaccination hesitancy is vital if we are to achieve population immunity.