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RAS Dataset and Codebook

The RAS dataset in SPSS format (This file can be opened by most major statistical software packages)

The RAS codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)

Specialized Versions of the RAS Dataset

Data for "Contemporary Evidence Regarding the Impact of State Regulation of Religion on Religious Participation and Belief" Sociology of Religion.

This version of the RAS dataset includes data from the WVS and ISSP surveys. The version of the WVS and ISSP data used in this study is based on country-level measures developed from these datasets by Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary. The data includes only those cases and years for which the WVS and ISSP are available. See the article for more details.

Dataset in SPSS format (This file can be opened by most major statistical software packages)

Codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)


Data for Jonathan Fox & Deborah Flores "Religions, Constitutions, and the State: a Cross-National Study" Journal of Politics.

This dataset contains three supplemental variables measuring religion clauses in constitutions for the year 2002.

Dataset in SPSS format (This file can be opened by most major statistical software packages)

Codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)


RAS-Minorities dataset

The RAS-M dataset expands upon the original RAS codings for religious discriminations in two ways. (1) It expands the types of discrimination coded from 16 to 24. (2) It recodes all of the variables separately for 595 religious minorities worldwide. That is each of these minorities is coded separately based on the discrimination against that specific minority, as opposed to the country-level codings in the original RAS dataset which provides a single score for treatment of all minorities in a single country. The codings cover 1990 to 2002.

Dataset in SPSS format (This file can be opened by most major statistical software packages)

Codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)

RAS Constitutions Dataset

This dataset contains 154 variables which measure the presence of religion clauses in constitutions and is coded yearly from 1990 to 2002.

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Codebook

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Religion variables for use with the Minorities at Risk dataset

The Minorities at Risk (MAR) project collects data on ethnic minorities in the post-World War II era. It includes data on over 300 minorities. The following datasets were collected by Jonathan Fox for use with the MAR data.

Operationalizing Huntington's Civilizations: This dataset is designed to operationalize Samuel Huntington's concept of civilizations and to provide variables for religious identity, both for use with the Minorities at Risk (MAR) dataset. The codebook contains a description of the variables. The dataset is in SPSS format.

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Codebook

Religion and Ethnic Conflict: The purpose of this dataset is to provide variables measuring the religious elements of ethnic conflict that can be used with the Minorities at Risk Phase III dataset. The unit of analysis is the ethnic minority. The variables described below are coded for the 105 cases in the MARIII dataset in which the ethnic minorities involved are religiously different from the majority group. For operational purposes, a minority is considered to be a separate religion if it is 80% different from the majority group. Protestant and Catholic Christianity are considered separate religions for the purposes of this study. However, Orthodox Christianity is not considered sufficiently different from either Protestantism or Catholicism for such conflicts to be included. The Sunni and Shi'i branches of Islam are considered separate religions for the purpose of this study. In addition, cases of civil war are also not included because the study for which this data was collected focuses on the relationship between minority groups and governments controlled by a majority group. Cases where these is no effective government, like Bosnia, are therefore not included. A list of the groups included in this study is provided at the end of this codebook. There are three types of religious variables coded: religious grievances, religious discrimination, and religious demands. The dataset is in SPSS format.

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Codebook

Keep Updated
The RAS project sends periodic e-mail notices of publications and updates of the dataset. To be added to the mailing list please contact Jonathan Fox

Announcement: RAS Round 2
The Religion and State project is pleased to announce that as part of a grant funding the Association of Religion Data Archives , the John Templeton Foundation is funding the second round of data collection of the RAS dataset. Learn more...
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