RELIGION IN THE PERCEPTION OF MODERN YOUTH: COMPARISON OF ONLINE AND OFFLINE RESEARCH RESULTS

Abstract

The article presents the experience of comparing the results of online and offline surveys conducted by the authors as part of a study of the attitude of youth of the Krasnoyarsk Territory to religious issues according to a single method in 2021. Sample aggregates of online and offline surveys were reduced to an identical structure by a weighting procedure by the following sociodemographic characteristics: gender, age, city. As a result of the comparative analysis, the authors conclude that the presence or absence of differences between online and offline samples is significantly influenced by the nature of the questions. Thus, questions involving the identification of the respondent's personal emotional attitude to any phenomenon provide statistically significant shifts towards more socially desirable assessments, and in questions focused on measuring the respondent's external assessment of any phenomenon, statistically significant differences in answers are mainly not observed.