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F and the M | 1999 Canada | 1999 Provinces | 1999 Religions | Notes |
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F and the M | 1999 Canada | 1999 Provinces | 1999 Religions | Notes |
The final results for Ontario-based papers are now available.
To see some of the data collected last year, please consult the 1998 Faith and the Media results page .
Final results available for:
The Globe and Mail
National Post
Ottawa Citizen
Toronto Star
Toronto Sun
In descending order, here are the noted religious groups as covered by the above newspapers... The table shows the number of items that referred to each group, the percentage that were fully about religion, the percentage of space that was made up by photographs or illustrations, the average size (in square centimetres) of each item, and finally, the percentage of all items in the Ontario papers that referred to each religious group.
| Religion | # of items | Total Space | % Full | % Photo | Average Space | % Totals | |
| Christianity | 669 | 117854.30 | 27.50% | 32.04% | 176.16 | 18.44% | |
| Catholicism | 526 | 73000.16 | 35.55% | 37.82% | 138.78 | 14.50% | |
| Generic | 478 | 92752.37 | 32.43% | 30.58% | 194.04 | 13.18% | |
| Anglicanism | 422 | 77317.74 | 26.78% | 31.83% | 183.22 | 11.63% | |
| Baptist | 284 | 62364.61 | 22.18% | 33.78% | 219.59 | 7.83% | |
| Judaism | 270 | 56709.24 | 42.96% | 31.48% | 280.74 | 7.44% | |
| Buddhism | 202 | 45709.29 | 37.62% | 31.74% | 226.28 | 5.57% | |
| Islam | 198 | 31659.15 | 43.94% | 36.05% | 351.77 | 5.46% | |
| Orthodox | 90 | 18497.86 | 35.56% | 38.89% | 205.53 | 2.48% | |
| United Church | 76 | 13413.32 | 31.58% | 20.13% | 176.49 | 2.10% | |
| Evangelical | 70 | 13459.29 | 47.14% | 28.34% | 192.28 | 1.93% | |
| Hinduism | 61 | 14966.50 | 40.98% | 29.05% | 245.35 | 1.68% | |
| Indigenous | 53 | 15393.16 | 32.08% | 51.81% | 342.07 | 1.46% | |
| Protestantism | 45 | 13153.45 | 31.11% | 31.47% | 292.30 | 1.24% | |
| Presbyterianism | 32 | 7074.89 | 31.25% | 16.48% | 221.09 | 0.88% | |
| Mormonism | 31 | 6330.08 | 16.13% | 25.21% | 204.20 | 0.85% | |
| Secularism | 26 | 8542.79 | 65.38% | 35.49% | 328.57 | 0.72% | |
| Sikhism | 23 | 6824.85 | 78.26% | 29.55% | 296.73 | 0.63% | |
| Mennonite | 22 | 5436.94 | 36.36% | 23.56% | 247.13 | 0.61% | |
| Pentecostalism | 22 | 6918.23 | 59.09% | 26.40% | 314.46 | 0.61% | |
| Salvation Army | 22 | 4344.61 | 18.18% | 30.75% | 197.48 | 0.61% | |
| Wicca | 5 | 1520.66 | 60.00% | 35.57% | 304.13 | 0.14% | |
| Totals | 3627 | 693243.44 | 8.520767 | 6.880108 | 5338.413 | 1 |