Religion & Identity

(Sources: Country of birth: Census, April 2001, Office for National Statistics and General Register Office for Scotland National identity: Annual Population Survey, January 2004 to December 2004, Office for National Statistics Religious identity: Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001, Home Office)

• In every religious group the majority of people in Great Britain described their national identity as either British, English, Scottish or Welsh. Around 95% of Christians and those with no religion described themselves in this way. 78% of Sikhs, 70% of Muslims and 69% of Hindus gave one of these British identities.
  
  
• More than half of Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Hindu adults living in England and Wales in 2001 said that their religion was important to their self-identity. After religion and ethnicity, being aged over 50 and being born outside the UK were also associated with rating religion as important to self-identity.