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Your Parish
Social Profile is now available.
- Based on the
2006 Census, each of the 1,350 parish profiles is unique.
- All Catholic
dioceses, parishes, schools and other Catholic organisations now have
access to this valuable data.
Parish
Social Profiles
Click here to access your parish profile.
Also
available:
Diocesan Social Profiles
Click here to access your diocesan profile.
Note:
You will need a username & password to access these files.
Click here to contact the Pastoral Projects Office.
The
parish and diocesan profiles files are very large—about 9 Mb for the
parish profiles—so they do take a little while to download.
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National
Church
Life
Survey
2006
Over 500 Catholic parishes took part in the 2006 NCLS, along with
parishes and congregations from around 20 other Christian
denominations. Click here
for the results for 'Denominational Church Life Profile: the Catholic
Church in Australia 2006'.
National
Count of Attendance 2006
A National Count of Attendance was conducted in all parishes during May
2006. Further information about this project can be found here.
Profile of Catholics
in Australia
The 2006 Australian Census showed that Catholics remain the largest
religious group in the country. There were 5,126,884 Catholics in
Australia, making up 25.8 per cent of the total population of
19,855,288. More than one-fifth of Australian Catholics (22.7%) were
born overseas, including 17.6 per cent who were born in
non-English-speaking countries.
A Profile of Australian Catholics
Australia's Catholics in 2006 - an extended profile.
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Catholics at Mass
The latest snapshot of church life in Australia shows that Mass
attenders are on average older, better educated, more likely to be
female, married and born overseas than Catholics in general.
Click here to see the report.
Catholics
who have ceased attending Mass
For an
electronic copy of the final report, please
click here.
Also
available: Statement issued with the report by the Australian Catholic
Bishops - Click here; and a response by the Australian Catholic
Council for Clergy
Life and Mission. Click here.
 For
parish and diocesan planners:
‘The Pastoral Strategies Report’.
Click here.
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