Religious Beliefs of Canadians: Correlational Report

The following is the full report produced in January of 2022 based on data from
the 2021 Religious Beliefs of Canadians Survey. 
While the formatting differs the words from the most recent PDF version remains the same.

To request a PDF version you are welcome to email me at Iannewton8888@gmail.com.  

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Religious Beliefs of Canadians: Correlational Report

Ian T. Newton Amateur Researcher

January 30, 2022

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 Table of Content
Introduction - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3
Demographics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
Belief Correlations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10
 Beliefs About Personal Afterlife - - - - - 17
Proposed Typologies - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18

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Introduction

The information contained below relies on the Canadian Religious Views Survey 

which was conducted between November 15th to the end of 2021. 

The 20-question survey was predominantly shared on Facebook.com, Reddit.com and Agnostic.com among others.
In total, 1368 people participated. Of these 1214 confirmed they were Canadian citizens; it is this data which is used in the report.

It is important to note is that this survey is not demographically accurate, which is to say that the percentages given do not represent the Canadian population as we know from reliable data.
Instead, the results may be more useful to you to demonstrate how Canadians who do hold to a certain belief are more likely to hold to another belief.
For questions about the survey, this report or to request data you are welcome to email
me at Iannewton8888@gmail.com, the suggested subject line is “Survey Inquiry”. 

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Demographics
Place of residence
Of the 1214 Canadian citizens, 19 came from Yukon, 1 came from the Northwest Territories and 1 from Nunavut, with a total of 21 from the Northern Territories region in total.
The greatest number of respondents lived in British Columbia; 342. There were 172 Albertans, 28 Saskatchewanians and 108 Manitobans, for a total of 308 Prairie Canadians.
173 lived in Ontario and 109 lived in Quebec. 42 Resided in New Brunswick, 29 in Nova Scotia, 135 in Prince Edward Island and 5 resided in Newfoundland and Labrador; So that a total of 211 of Atlantic-living Canadians exist.
48 did not reside in Canada, while 2 individuals did not answer the question.
In terms of precents, 1.7% are Northerners, 28.17% in British Columbia, 25.37% in the Praries,
14.25% in Ontario, 8.97% in Quebec and 17.38% in the Atlantic. With 3.95% living outside of Canada and 0.16% choosing not to give a response.

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Gender

Canadian respondents to the survey were disproportionately male (67.62%),
with 32.26% female and two who skipped the question making up 0.16%. 

Age-Generation
160 Canadians were Generation Zers (making up 13.17% of the total Canadian sample),
705 were Millennials (58.07%),
271 were Gen Xers (22.32%),
And 75 were Baby-Boomers (6.17%),
Only 3 were from the Silent Generation (0.24%).  

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Population Area

Most of the relevant sample lived in cities (72.48%), With the minority living in towns (14.99%), villages (3.45%) or a rural property (8.97%). One respondent did not answer the question (0.08%). 

Affiliation
Nearly half of respondents were Atheists (47.11%)
and the second higher affiliation was Agnostic (18.12%).

7.49% identified as Protestant, 6.83% as Catholic and 0.82% Orthodox.
1.07% identified as Muslim. Among the remaining, most choose “Other” out of the eleven affiliation options. One person, who made up 0.08% did not choose an option.  

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Affiliations of Town-Dwelling Respondents

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Affiliations of Village/Rural Dwelling Respondents

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Correlations

Type of residence

“There is one God Who is active in the universe” (N=158)

 

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“I’m not sure if God exists” (n=244)

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Beliefs About Personal Afterlife 

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Proposed typologies

I suggest categorizing Canadians into four groupings, generally based on beliefs held when a survey is general in nature, this could be the following: 

Monotheistic wherein common beliefs are believing Jesus is the Divine Son of God, in the existence of the soul, Heaven, Hell, angels and demons. In the Canadian context, most of these people would be either Catholic or Protestant.

The second type could be Spiritualistic wherein the belief in the soul is present. However, to be categorized here a person would also have a belief in karma, nature spirits and/or ghosts. 

The third type is that of an agnostic, still believing in objective morally wrong actions but usually not any other belief.

The fourth type is Atheistic where respondents deny, rather than respond that they don’t know when asked about spiritual realms or supernatural agents all or most of the time.