European Spiritual Estimate


* THE ESE FINAL REPORT (Available after March 6) * ESE RESULTS - Christians - Gospel Oriented Christians - Responsiveness to the Gospel - Gospel Oriented Churches - Church Planting * ESE RESOURCES (Available after March 6) * The ESE Survey * About emRG * Contact the author	The following seven charts display the results of the European Spiritual Estimate. Each chart represents a geographic area or region. The author of this report has divided the continent into four areas each having two regions. There are also three additional regions that are not subsets of the four areas. The eleven multinational regions and the four areas do not necessarily reflect any official political divisions. Rather, these multinational regions are determined by grouping nations of similar language, culture, and history into blocks of similarly sized populations. The areas and regions are: • NORTH EUROPE, which has two regions: - Nordo-Baltic: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden - Benelux: Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands • GALLO-LATIN, which has two regions: - West Mediterranean: Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain - France • CENTRAL EUROPE, which has two regions: - Visegrad 4: Czech, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - West Balkans: Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, and Slovenia • EAST BALKANS, which has two regions: - Byzantine: Bulgaria, Cyprus, F.Y.R.O. Macedonia, and Greece - Dacia: Moldova and Romania • The three remaining regions are: • Britannia: Ireland and the United Kingdom • DACHL: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland • The Rus: Russia and Ukraine Precision for area data is calculated to 99% confidence. The area data is found in the purple rows on the following charts. The precision for region data is calculated to 95% confidence. All region data is found in the blue rows on the following charts. The precision data for nations is calculated to 90% confidence. All national data is found in the gray rows on the following charts. Precision for NUTS[1] data is calculated to 80% confidence. The NUTS level data is found in the white rows on the following charts. Some rows may have a “*” symbol: this means that there is insufficient data to calculate precision for this measurement. Data shown on the table includes: • Population: based on July 2005 national estimates and appropriately proportioned with most recent NUTS level data. • Christians: percentage of the population with a personal identification with Christianity. This measurement does not address whether or not individuals actually follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. • Gospel Oriented Christians: percentage of the population that follow Jesus Christ and are concerned about the spiritual condition of their fellow man. • Responsiveness: percentage of the population who would begin to follow Jesus Christ and join a fellowship of others who follow Jesus after receiving a relevant presentation of the Gospel. • Population / Church: a calculated estimate of the ratio of the population to gatherings or fellowships of Gospel Oriented Christians. • Churches / Church plant: a calculated estimate of the ratio of current churches to new church plants in 2005. [1] 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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