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Description	English: Religious affilation in the UK over time Note: Statistics for 1680 to 1840 denoted are for England and Wales. Statistics in the first half covering from 1680 to 1939 include Presbyterian's as 'Other Christians', from the rest of the source onwards they are included within Anglican representing 'Protestants'. For 1947 to 1978, "Other religion represents a combination of Christians other than Anglican, Catholic or Free Church and of non-Christians, the latter mostly not being separately identified by Gallup." Source change begins at 1983 but to avoid a sharp decline I have smoothed it off by interpolering for 1980 to 1982. The line denoted at 1980 shown is there to represent a shift in sources from Gallup opinion polls which were taken from 1947 to 1978 to BSA Faith in Britain surveys conducted which has a better survey question ("Do you regard yourself as belonging* to any particular religion? IF YES: Which?*"); primarily, the BSA source is superior due to the fact it filters out 'Christian nominals', those that are not necessarily religious (hence 'belong') but 'identify' with a specific denomation due to their cultural upbringing/background getting a more accurate figure of religious affiliation.
Date	6 February 2023
Source	Own work, data taken from Measuring religious affiliation in Great Britain: the 2011 census in historical and methodological context, using Tables 1 and 3 (up to 1978) and BSA Religious affilation surveys from 1983 to 2018.
Author	Tweedle

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:59, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,103 (38 KB)	Tweedle	.
	17:07, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,103 (37 KB)	Tweedle	slight changes, hopefully the line on this version is vertical perfectly, tried to get it down right
	16:36, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,139 (36 KB)	TilmannR	The line at 1983 wasn't exactly vertical. // Editing SVG source code using c:User:Rillke/SVGedit.js
	15:22, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,139 (36 KB)	Tweedle	fix :(
	15:16, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,139 (36 KB)	Tweedle	final version at the moment
	15:14, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,139 (26 KB)	Tweedle	slight fix on name
	15:04, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,139 (26 KB)	Tweedle	name change
	14:46, 6 February 2023	2,940 × 2,139 (35 KB)	Tweedle	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard