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Census Religions Search
The Census Religions Search generates and displays a list of the religions recorded by census enumerators, along with the number of practioners in each year.
How to Use the Religions Search
The search can be done for any or all of the census years; select the years you want to include by checking the appropriate checkboxes. If you check the "Show all religions" checkbox, all religions in the database will be listed, even if there are no census records for that religion in the selected years. If you check the "Show percent change" checkbox, the percent change of the number of records between two census years will be calculated and displayed. You must select at least two census years for the percentage to be calculated.
The Search Results List
Any results from your search are displayed in the form of a table. The number of columns that will be displayed depends on the number of census years you selected, and whether or not the "Show percent change" checkbox is checked.
The data in the table columns can be sorted by clicking the
or
symbol found in each
column title. The column that the data is currently sorted on will have one
of these symbols in red.
The religion name is a link. Clicking on an religion will do an automatic search of the census data for the selected years, to display all records using that religion.