RAS Round 3 Dataset and Codebook
RAS3 covers government religion policy in 183 counties and independent territories for 1990 to 2014. This version of RAS includes a new module with a battery of variables measuring societal discrimination against minority religions as well as minority actions taken against both the majority group and other minority groups.
Download the RAS Dataset in multiple formats (SPSS, Stata, Ascii text)
Codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)
Online codebook with frequencies
RAS Minorities Round 3 Dataset
This Religion and State-Minorities (RASM) dataset is supplemental to the Religion and State round 3 (RAS3) dataset. It codes the RAS religious discrimination variable using the minority as the unit of analysis. . For example, in the UK, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, and Sikhs are all coded separately (RAS3 uses a country as the unit of analysis and, is a general measure of all discrimination in the country). RASM includes 771 minorities in 183 countries includes in the main RAS dataset. The dataset includes all minorities which are at least 0.2% of the population as well as the following categories of minorities regardless of their population size: (1) Christians in Muslim countries, (2) Muslims in Christian countries, and (3) Jews in Christian-majority and Muslim-majority countries, where present.
Download the RAS Minorities Round 3 Dataset in multiple formats (SPSS, Stata, Ascii text)
Codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)
Online codebook with frequencies
RAS Constitutions Dataset
This dataset contains 154 variables which measure the presence of religion clauses in constitutions and is coded yearly from 1990 to 2008.
Download the RAS Constitutions Dataset in multiple formats (SPSS, Stata, Ascii text)
Codebook (This file contains a description of the variables contained in the dataset)
Online codebook with frequencies
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)