The Death of Christian Britain

— The Death of Christian Britain —
Table 7.3 Churchgoing and social indicators: correlations and regression analysis
of factors influencing church attendance rate
Regression
Correlation
coefficent Coefficient of t sig.
(Pearson) determination statistic 2r
adj. R2 tailed
Set A: 28 boroughs of Metropolitan London
1. Domestic indoor servants
as % of households 0.5373 0.26 3.25 .003
2. % population living in
houses of > 7 rooms 0.5856 0.32 3.69 .001
3. % population living more
than 2 per room –0.4359 0.16 –2.44 .022
Set B: 25 boroughs of Greater London
with significant male industrial workforces:
4. % occupied males working
in industries characterised by
large-scale production 0.3966 0.12 2.12 .045
5. Domestic indoor servants
as % of households 0.3592 0.09 1.89 .072
Set C: sample of 12 boroughs of Metropolitan
London drawn equally from north, south,
east and west of the city:
6. Death rate –0.4472 0.12 –1.59 .143
7. Infant mortality rate –0.7211 0.48 –3.32 .008
Set D: quartiles of 28 Metropolitan boroughs
ranked by domestic servants as % of households
8. First quartile
(lowest proportion of
servants) 0.5869 0.21 1.62 .166
9. Second quartile 0.3009 –0.09 0.71 .512
10. Third quartile 0.6054 0.24 1.70 .150
11. Fourth quartile
(highest proportion of
servants) –0.4179 0.01 –1.03 .351
Sources: Figures calculated from data in R. Mudie-Smith, The Religious Life of London,
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1904, and H. McLeod, Class and Religion in the Late Victorian
City, London, Croom Helm, 1974.
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