Editor’s note: The following is the second article exploring findings from the 2023 Current and Former Latter-day Saint Survey. The survey was conducted by the B.H. Roberts Foundation, an independent organization not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Are there any meaningful patterns in how Latter-day Saints respond to questions about their beliefs and practices?
In our previous article , we provided an overview of the 2023 Current and Former Latter-day Saint Survey, a large representative study of over 3,800 current and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These came from national Facebook ads and postcards sent to a representative distribution of households within counties that had populations that were at least 15% Latter-day Saint based on the 2020 U.S. Religious Census estimates. (You can read more about the methodology here ).
In this article, we will dig more deeply into what Latter-day Saint respondents told us about what they believe and how they practice their faith. We asked three types of questions: basic demographics to understand potential generational effects, questions about beliefs and practices to better understand adherence to the faith, and questions related to some debated topics to better understand various ideological dispositions.