Talk:Church attendance

Participation statistics - 'However'?

The "Participation statistics" section currently states: "However, these numbers are open to dispute", as if to suggest a contradiction. The Gallup poll says "41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services", while the ReligiousTolerance.org sourece says 21% of Americans and 10% of Canadians actually go to church one or more times a week. There is no contradiction here. A churchgoer who goes to church two or three times a month is a regular churchgoer, but is not a weekly churchgoer. - Crosbie 07:06, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm removing the quote from ReligiousTolerance.org completely. If the references on the ReligiousTolerance.org are verifiable, we should quote these directly. - Crosbie 07:15, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

The studies regarding parental church attendance and child church attendance need to be re examined to determine their legitimacy. They seem to conflict other studies suggesting that children identify most frequently with their mother's religion, are based on too small of a sample to be accurate, and come to questionable conclusions. For example, it suggests that a mother being completely irreligious makes her child more likely to be a church attender despite other studies proving that children follow their mother's religion most frequently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:380:8C7D:B9AF:343A:EBCD:23D5:A95C (talk) 19:01, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

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Edits on the the "Attendance by country table": A note on what sources are appropriate

I've removed the listings for Lebanon, Slovakia, Australia, Germany, Lithuania, Belgium, and France from the table "Percentage of Christians who attend church at least once a week" under Attendance by country; it's not appropriate to estimate attendance values for Christians from total church/place of worship attendance. You will not get an accurate number by just dividing the total attendance figure by the percentage of Christians in the country. First, none of the data about attendance are actually from 2010, when the data about %Christians is from, so you're inherently introducing some variability there. Second, there are likely differences in how often Christians attend church when compared to people of other denominations (i.e., just because 40% of the population is Christian doesn't mean that 40% of those who attend church weekly are also Christian); we have no way of knowing this figure without directly measuring it. Please find direct sources, rather than attempting to calculate the data yourself. Additionally, this kind of calculation likely counts as original research, which is prohibited on Wikipedia. --Mintynips (talk) 04:56, 14 April 2022 (UTC)