Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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- Methodology
- Sudden decline in China’s folk religion estimate is likely due to the 2021 CGSS’s omission of some provinces
- Religious (zongjiao) attendance in 2018 and 2021
- After adjusting for ethnic composition, fewer than 2% of adults in China are Muslim
- With the new weight, the ethnic composition in the survey aligns with the census
- Surveys with ‘folk religion’ option tend to produce lower estimates of Buddhist affiliation
- Listing ‘no zongjiao’ as the first response option seems to have little impact on Christian or Buddhist estimates
- Surveys that ask about religion (zongjiao) produce similar Christian estimates, despite wording differences
- Multiple faiths
- Excluding respondents with multiple faiths produces similar results as those presented in this report
- How survey-based estimates of zongjiao religious affiliation in China vary from our earlier, broader approach