I tend to fill in all the YouGov polls that they ask me to do, but i also found this one quite interesting. I would like to see the next census make the slipt between considering yourself a part of, and beleiving in, a specific religion or just having a background that is opne of them. Also, it would be interesting to see a survey that asks if people consider themselves to be active believer/members of a religion and the degree of this. This one has edged towards that with the question on whether you attend religious services but this isn't quite the same thing.
Somehow i don't think that thge next survey will go this far. The questions asked tend to be rather conservative in nature, which is partly a problem that is inherant in censuses (to be of real benefit they need to be able to see trends and this can only really be done with any accuracy is the questions are kept very similar each time).
It will be interesting to see how well the new survey types that YouGov are going to have more of (the ones asking you to actually write what you think as opposed to selecting from a set of options). If they can make them work well i think that they could really give politicians, and the other groups that use the information from these surveys, some real food for thought.
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Date: 2007-Apr-12, Thursday 18:24 (UTC)Somehow i don't think that thge next survey will go this far. The questions asked tend to be rather conservative in nature, which is partly a problem that is inherant in censuses (to be of real benefit they need to be able to see trends and this can only really be done with any accuracy is the questions are kept very similar each time).
It will be interesting to see how well the new survey types that YouGov are going to have more of (the ones asking you to actually write what you think as opposed to selecting from a set of options). If they can make them work well i think that they could really give politicians, and the other groups that use the information from these surveys, some real food for thought.