Longitudinal Religious Congregations and Membership File, 1980-2010 (County Level) - Codebook

All frequencies are raw numbers (no weights used).

1) Aggregated county FIPS code -- See Appendix C for details (FIPSMERG)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	276629	29,912.69	15,128.32

2) County name in 2010 (CNTYNM)
3) State abbreviation (STATEAB)
4) Year of data collection (YEAR)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	276629	1,996.88	11.17

5) Total population (TOTPOP)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	276629	205,002.17	552,529.32

6) Religious group three-digit code (GROUPCODE) (GRPCODE)
7) Religious group name description GROUPNAME) (GRPNAME)
8) Number of adherents (ADHERENTS) (ADHERENT)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	261449	2,278.59	21,236.74

9) Number of congregations (CONGREGATIONS) (CONGREG)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	275139	4.82	22.63

10) Religious tradition category - based on Steensland et al (2000) (RELTRAD)

	TOTAL	%
1) Evangelical Protestant	144370	52.2
2) Mainline Protestant	80880	29.2
3) Catholic	11800	4.3
4) Other	26748	9.7
5) Orthodox	4794	1.7
6) Black Protestant	8037	2.9
Total	276629	100.0

11) Religious family category - created by theARDA.com (FAMILY)

	TOTAL	%
87) Catholicism	11821	4.3
88) Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	16961	6.2
89) Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	4794	1.8
90) Lutheran	25187	9.2
91) Presbyterian-Reformed	24950	9.1
92) Methodist/Pietist	26569	9.7
93) Holiness	22422	8.2
94) Pentecostal	33078	12.1
95) European Free-Church	14154	5.2
96) Baptist	33759	12.4
97) Independent Fundamentalist	1868	0.7
98) Adventist	10310	3.8
99) Liberal	2259	0.8
100) Latter-day Saints	8057	3.0
101) Communal	379	0.1
102) Christian Science	1592	0.6
103) Spiritualist	146	0.1
106) Judaism	3108	1.1
113) Other groups	10328	3.8
115) Restoration Movement	21201	7.8
Missing	3686
Total	272943	100.0

12) Flag variable indicating how group is affected by new missing data estimates -- see Appendices A and B for details (NOTE_MISSING) (NOTE_MIS)

	TOTAL	%
0) No missing data estimated for this group	251770	91.0
1) Adherents estimated from congregation size in this year	2456	0.9
2) Adherents estimated from congregation size in another year for this group	3280	1.2
3) Interpolated or extrapolated values in this year	5086	1.8
4) Interpolated or extrapolated values in another year	14037	5.1
Total	276629	100.0

13) Flag variable indicating how group is affected by combined group changes -- see Appendix A for details (NOTE_COMBINED) (NOTE_COM)

	TOTAL	%
0) Not affected by combined groupings	234147	84.6
1) Included in a combined grouping	22173	8.0
2) Combined grouping	20309	7.3
Total	276629	100.0

14) Flag variable indicating how group is affected by measurement changes in one or more years -- see Appendix A for details (NOTE_MEASURE) (NOTE_MEA)

	TOTAL	%
0) Affected by zero or minor measurement changes	232123	83.9
1) Both adherent and congregation counts affected by measurement change	12882	4.7
2) Only adherent counts affected by measurement change	18578	6.7
3) Only congregations affected by measurement change	13046	4.7
Total	276629	100.0