Data & Documentation
Access and analyze data from all four waves of the National Congregations Study.
Summary Tables
Explore NCS results from Waves I-IV in these summary tables that compare responses over time and present data from the point of view of both the congregation and the average attendee.
Frequency Tables
See basic findings for almost every variable in the NCS.
Provided by the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
Crosstabs
Explore how different characteristics relate to one another by creating cross-tabulations of two variables.
Provided by ARDA
Congregational QuickStats
Browse responses from key survey questions. See how answers vary over time and by political ideology, region, religious tradition, theology, and congregation size. Enter “congregation” in the filter on this page to get QuickStats based on NCS data.
Provided by ARDA
Download the Data
To explore the findings more thoroughly, you can download the cumulative dataset from the Association of Religion Data Archives or the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. A dataset including original responses to open-ended NCS questions is available from the Association of Religion Data Archives. Restricted datasets, including one that provides more detailed geographical information about NCS congregations and one that links NCS data to data from the General Social Survey respondents who attended each NCS congregation, soon will be available through NORC at the University of Chicago.
Codebook
Download the data codebook that explains all survey variables and documents exact wording of questions.
Weights Documentation
Download the detailed description of NCS sample weights.