Talk:Religion in Bolivia/Archive 1

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Dear Begoon,I think it is needed to open a new short section NO RELIGION to put the recent information about Gallup poll with 12% of Bolivians thinking religion is not important in their lives. There are also other surveys that point out a growing people with no religion in Bolivia, like America´s Barometer with 3.3 % and another published last April in the newspaper La Prensa with 5%. Luis

• • • —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.87.154.223 (talk) 19:34, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, at the moment there is only one sentence - nowhere near enough for a section. If you can provide some more, relevant content, with proper references, I'd be quite happy to help you copy edit it, if you're not comfortable adding it yourself.  Begoon•talk 00:08, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

See http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/bVWgP6/I0829Midiendo%20religin%20en%20encuestas%20de%20Latinoamrica.pdf (page 11) for 3.3% of no religion, this survey can also be mentioned as a FULL statistics of religion for Bolivia at the beginning of this wiki page.

The other survey from 2010 can be found at: http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/02-04-10/noticias.php?nota=02_04_10_socd2.php this was done by La Prensa newspaper and mentions 5% of no religion. But it was done only in cities of EL Alto, La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

Both show a recovery of Catholicism against decline in Evangelism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.87.154.109 (talk) 20:15, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Ok - if you can post exactly what you'd like the section to say in order to be long enough, we can take a look. Thanks.  Begoon•talk 00:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Dear Begoon, I already edited it in the new section "No Religion". Feel free to suggest any modification. On the other hand, I leave to you the criteria for putting A FULL TRANSLATED TABLE, maybe at the beginning of the page with the Americas Barometer 2008 Survey for Bolivia (See page 11 of the pdf). I think this survey is the most serious poll done in recent years in Bolivia, they interviewed 3,003 persons and has an error of only +/- 1,8%. It changes some tendencies that appeared at the 2001 survey of the governmental National Statistics Institute, like the fact that all the Christian groups in Bolivia, except Catholics, are 4,9% less in 2008 than in 2001. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.87.99.194 (talk) 20:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

The new section seems fine, thanks for doing that. I just did a very minor, mostly grammatical, copy edit. With regards to the data from the 2008 survey - yes, that seems exactly what we need, thank you again. If you want to go ahead and add it to the lead section as a table, great. If you're not comfortable fiddling around with tables, just pop the translation here, and I'll do it. I would do it myself, but I'm likely to make translation errors. Thank you very much indeed - the base data we had before was unsourced, and continually edit warred over - it will be great to include something sourced.  Begoon•talk 00:39, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

The table can be as follows:

Americas Barometer Survey 2008 ( Bolivia ) 3,003 interviews, Error +/- 1,8% http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/files/bVWgP6/I0829Midiendo%20religin%20en%20encuestas%20de%20Latinoamrica.pdf (page 11):

Catholic 81.8%

Evangelic 10.3% (Pentecostal, Non Chatolic Charismatic )

No religion 3.3% (Secular, Atheist)

Protestant 2.6% (Non Evangelical Historic Protestant - Adventist, Bautist, Calvinist, Salvation Army, Lutheran, Methodist, Nazarene, Presbiterian)

Mormon and Jehova's Witness 1.7%

Non Christian 0.4% (Jewish, Islamist,Budhist, Hindu, Taoist)

Traditional religions 0.1% (Native religions) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.87.159.228 (talk) 00:13, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

 Done - thank you.  Begoon•talk 21:51, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Dear Begoon, Someone vandalized the data in the table of religions. Please keep watching —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.129.20.159 (talk) 20:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear Begoom, I corrected the data on the table of religions to the original Catholics 81.8% and Evangelic 10.3%. It seems that there is an "evangelic" friend that is trying to change the data.

Carlos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.129.20.159 (talk) 21:02, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Dear friends,

Once again, please do something on the case of a person(s)who are triying to distort systematically the data on the religion table,this is clearly a planified VANDALISM. There should be a way to protect the data. Carlos