Having a religious affiliation doesn’t stop people from betting on sports in the United States, according to a new study. Results showed that people who infrequently attend religious services are more likely to gamble on sports than people who attend services at least weekly or who never worship publicly. Catholics – and especially Catholic men – stood out in the data as a group most likely to engage in sports gambling.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences has gone in this 18th edition to the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan and NORC at the University of Chicago for “their long-term contribution to the objective measurement of public opinion and social life,” in the words of the committee. They are recognized as having created “a reliable and unsurpassed source for social scientists, policymakers, and journalists” through their extensive data series built up over eight decades of research.