Statistics for Mission

The Church of Scotland and Scotland’s Census

Church of Scotland• Long association with

Scotland’s Census• Presence in every

part of Scotland• Work with National

Records of Scotland

Scotland’s Census 2011• ACCESSIBILITY! • Web-based PDF

files available for EVERY congregation• Digitise parish

boundaries

Scotland’s Census• Smaller output areas• Religion detail – Church of

Scotland/Roman Catholic/other• Bivariate tables – religion by age

band, gender, ethnicity, identity

Census Profiles• Parish map• 12 pages of graphs, charts, tables–Population breakdown–Ethnicity, language, health

• Presbytery and national figures

Release B• Parish map• Pop’n• H’holds

Training material• Congregational

material• Introduction to

using statistics, Census, other data• People’s stories

So what?• National - targeting support for the

most deprived parishes• Presbyteries – mission planning,

resource deployment• Congregations – understanding our

communities, new ways of mission, evidence-base for grants

What’s next?• Congregations USING profiles to

understand and benefit local communities• Further research with parish

boundary data