text: Summary | National Congregations Study Switzerland, Cumulative Dataset (1998, 2006, and 2008) | Data Archive | The Association of Religion Data Archives
  10.17605/OSF.IO/AUHCV
  Stolz, J., & Chaves, M. (2021, January 25). National Congregations Study Switzerland, Cumulative Dataset (1998, 2006, and 2008).
  Cases: 3,780
  Weight Variable: W2USCONG, W3USATT, W1CHCONG, W3CHATT, WUSCHCNG, WUSCHATT
  For more information on the weights, see the full codebook.
  Date Collected: 1998, 2006, 2008
  NCS Switzerland Codebook
  National Research Program of the Swiss National Science Foundation
  Specially trained interviewers were used. Interviews were done with CATI (computer aided telephone interview) and took about 45 minutes. Respondents were required to be experts on their congregation, such as the religious leader or a designated representative. Interviews were conducted in one of the three national Swiss languages (French, German, or English). When researchers could not find a congregational expert who could speak one of these languages, they used interviewers who knew more languages. If congregational representatives could not be reached by telephone, interviewers visited the congregations for face-to-face interviews. In some cases, respondents were compensated for their time.
  As a first step, investigators made a comprehensive list of all religious congregations in Switzerland. They used a variety of methods to ensure the list was as complete as possible, and included small, new, and not very well known groups. They combined and cross-checked the following sources of information: encyclopedias of religions and religious congregations in each canton, or state, in Switzerland; mapping studies of religious congregations in each canton; lists of religious congregations from information centers on religion, and telephone directories. They also followed up on leads derived from these sources.
  Jorg Stolz, Universite de Lausanne
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