Oh, really interesting, thank you! I wish the figures for Catholic baptisms against ONS general population figures went back before the war, because at a first glance they suggest a significant rise in the % from the mid-50s to early 60s, before falling back to what had been the rough 10% earlier. Which is a period when the birth rate is up anyway (post-war, earlier age of first marriage?), but perhaps up more for RCs? And ordinations seem to be going up from 1932, after bumping along around the same rate since 1912.

Would love to see some comparisons with non-CofE denominations & Scottish churches (and CofE, but the numbers are so affected there by being the state church that it's probably much harder to draw any useful conclusions).