Purpose of the Project

This collaborative project was designed in the first instance to broaden the NCLS congregational health model to other countries. From the Australian perspective it was also seen as an opportunity to establish if congregational factors varied between countries because Australian churches tend to rely heavily on US research. At the same time analysis of congregations using an attender aggregation process had only ever been used in Australia before this project.

Methodology

Research teams from the four countries worked together to design survey forms. Researchers in each country were responsible for funding and carrying out the survey in their country. For survey methodology refer to NCLS 2001

Data Sets

The data sets for the International survey are set out below