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Never on Sunny Days: Lessons from Weekly Attendance Counts
Author(s) -
Iannaccone Laurence R.,
Everton Sean F.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal for the scientific study of religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1468-5906
pISSN - 0021-8294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2004.00227.x
Subject(s) - attendance , church attendance , yield (engineering) , sociology , demographic economics , demography , psychology , social psychology , economics , economic growth , materials science , religiosity , metallurgy
Congregational attendance data are abundant, accessible, and relevant for religious research. Weekly attendance histories provide information about worshippers, congregations, and denominations that surveys cannot capture. The histories yield novel measures of commitment, testable implications of rational choice theory, and compelling evidence that attendance responds strongly to changes in the opportunity cost of time.