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This book has reported on 28 items that were part of both the 2001 and 2013 Church Times surveys. The main chapters dealt with particular items related to the same topic and showed how the level of agreement with the item varied between different categories in groups defined by sex, age, education, location, ordination status and church tradition. This final chapter first looks at the results from a slightly different perspective by taking each of these groups in turn and asking what the results tell us about the nature of differences between categories in this group. For example, in general how much did men differ from women and was there a pattern in the direction of these differences? The chapter then looks at how far things changed between the two surveys and what the trajectory of change suggests for the Church of England over the next few decades.
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Village, A. (2018). Conclusions. In: The Church of England in the First Decade of the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04528-9_11
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