Editing Modern paganism (section)

===North America===
{{Further|Modern paganism in the United States}}

{| style="float:right"
!Socio-economic breakdown of U.S. pagans in 1999
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{| class="wikitable"
 ! Education !! Percentage{{sfn|Berger|1999|pp=8, 9}}
 |-
 |Claimed to have at least a [[College degree]] || 65.4%
 |-
 |Claimed to have [[Post-graduate education|Post-graduate degree]]s || 16.1%
 |-
 |Claimed to have completed some college or less || 7.6%
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="float:left;"
 ! [[Residential area|Location]] !! Percentage{{sfn|Berger|1999|pp=8, 9}}
 |-
 | Urban areas || 27.9%
 |-
 | Suburban areas || 22.8%
 |-
 | Large towns || 14.4%
 |-
 | Small towns || 14.4%
 |-
 | Rural areas || 15.8%
 |-
 | Didn't respond || 5.6%
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right;"
 ! [[Ethnicity]] !! Percentage{{sfn|Berger|1999|pp=8, 9}}
 |-
 | [[White Americans|White]] || 90.4%
 |-
 | Native American || 9%
 |-
 | [[Asian Americans|Asian]] || 2%
 |-
 | [[Hispanic Americans|Hispanic]] || 0.8%
 |-
 | African American || 0.5%
 |-
 |"Other" || 2.2%
 |-
 |Didn't respond || 5%
|}
|}
Canada does not provide extremely detailed records of religious adherence. Its [[Statistics Canada|statistics service]] only collects limited religious information each decade. At the [[Canada 2001 Census|2001 census]], there were a recorded 21,080 pagans in Canada.<ref>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://religioustolerance.org/can_rel0.htm |date=* |title=Religion data from the 2001 Canadian census }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Todd|first=Douglas|title=University of Victoria chaplain marks solstice with pagan rituals|url=http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2010/12/16/pagans-celebrate-solstice-with-yule-rituals/?wwparam=1359064476|work=Vancouver Sun|publisher=Postmedia Network Inc.|access-date=14 March 2013|date=December 2003|archive-date=17 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517111657/http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2010/12/16/pagans-celebrate-solstice-with-yule-rituals/?wwparam=1359064476|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{better source needed|reason=This should be directly supported by StatCan|date=March 2013}}

The United States government does not directly collect religious information. As a result such information is provided by religious institutions and other third-party statistical organisations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Religion Statistics and Publications|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/religion.htm|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=14 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119172319/http://www.census.gov/prod/www/religion.htm|archive-date=19 January 2009}}</ref> Based on the most recent survey by the [[Pew Research Center]], there are approximately one million pagans in the United States. 0.3% of respondents answered "Pagan" or "Wiccan" when [[Opinion poll|polled]].<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Smith
 | first = Gregory
 | display-authors = etal
 | title = America's Changing Religious Landscape
 | publisher = Pew Research Center
 | place = Washington D.C.
 | date = 2014
 | chapter = Chapter 1: The Changing Religious Composition of the U.S.
 | page = 21
 | url = https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2015/05/RLS-08-26-full-report.pdf
 }}</ref>

According to [[Helen A. Berger]]'s 1995 survey "The Pagan Census", most American pagans are middle-class, [[Higher education|educated]], and live in urban/suburban areas on the [[East Coast of the United States|East]] and [[West Coast of the United States|West]] coasts.{{sfn|Berger|1999|pp=8, 9}}
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