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News and Updates The ESE 2005 Final Report ESE ARTICLES
Europe: A Christian Continent?
The Problem with Counting Christians ESE RESOURCES
Maps Page Barcelona Presentation The ESE Survey About emRG About the Author ESE RESULTS Christians Gospel Oriented Christians Responsiveness to the Gospel Gospel Oriented Churches Church Planting Rate |
The
ESE measures the amount of Christians per 1000 people in the geographic
regions of Europe. Specifically, this measurement considers
personal identification with Christianity. This measurement
does
not address whether or not individuals actually follow Jesus Christ as
their Lord and Savior. The results are gathered from responses to the second question on the ESE survey: If
you were to have a conversation with 1000 random people in this
geography, how many of these people
would you
estimate would indicate that they are Christians (including Roman
Catholic, Orthodox, house church,
organic church,
etc.)? Please use only whole numbers.
The table below lists the estimates from the ESE for each multi-national region in this study. Please consult the final report for a thorough explanation of these regions. The center column lists the historic religion of the region. A table for the nations of Europe can be found in the final report. ![]() The answers for this question are also mapped (based on responses to the first question where respondents indicate the geography in which they are completing the survey) as percentage of the population of each territory that would be considered “Christian”. These results are shown on maps of Europe below: 1) a map of the NUTS regions of Europe, 2) a map of the nations of Europe, and 3) a map of multinational European regions. Territories with no coloration are NUTS regions were there were not multiple responses for this result. These singular responses were still incorporated into the National and Multi-National results.
The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is defined and developed by the European Union according to a number of basic principles (see the official Eurostat website for complete details of these principles: http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/ramon/nuts/basicnuts_regions_en.html). Throughout this report, NUTS level 1 regions are used with the exception of Romania (where level 2 is used). Nations without E.U. defined NUTS regions are subdivided into territorial units using similar principles. The ESE report refers to all of these sub-national areas as NUTS regions. |
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