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

All frequencies are raw numbers (no weights used).

1) State FIPS Code (STFIP)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	18310	28.60	15.48

2) State abbreviation (STATEAB)
3) Year of data collection (YEAR)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	18310	1,997.94	11.18

4) Total population (TOTPOP)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	18223	6,482,855.42	6,599,806.76

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

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	18310	32,536.06	233,072.44

8) Number of congregations (CONGREGATIONS) (CONGREG)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	18310	72.49	281.74

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

	TOTAL	%
1) Evangelical Protestant	10827	59.1
2) Mainline Protestant	3281	17.9
3) Catholic	232	1.3
4) Other	2022	11.0
5) Orthodox	1341	7.3
6) Black Protestant	607	3.3
Total	18310	100.0

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

	TOTAL	%
87) Catholicism	250	1.4
88) Episcopalianism/Anglicanism	482	2.7
89) Eastern Liturgical (Orthodox)	1341	7.4
90) Lutheran	1353	7.5
91) Presbyterian-Reformed	2236	12.3
92) Methodist/Pietist	1321	7.3
93) Holiness	1328	7.3
94) Pentecostal	1843	10.2
95) European Free-Church	2086	11.5
96) Baptist	2311	12.7
97) Independent Fundamentalist	260	1.4
98) Adventist	508	2.8
99) Liberal	204	1.1
100) Latter-day Saints	311	1.7
101) Communal	50	0.3
102) Christian Science	102	0.6
103) Spiritualist	76	0.4
106) Judaism	359	2.0
113) Other groups	1127	6.2
115) Restoration Movement	591	3.3
Missing	171
Total	18139	100.0

11) 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	15111	82.5
1) Adherents estimated from congregation size in this year	367	2.0
2) Adherents estimated from congregation size in another year for this group	478	2.6
3) Interpolated or extrapolated values in this year	606	3.3
4) Interpolated or extrapolated values in another year	1748	9.5
Total	18310	100.0

12) 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	15801	86.3
1) Included in a combined grouping	1487	8.1
2) Combined grouping	1022	5.6
Total	18310	100.0

13) 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	15903	86.9
1) Both adherent and congregation counts affected by measurement change	1183	6.5
2) Only adherent counts affected by measurement change	407	2.2
3) Only congregation counts affected by measurement change	817	4.5
Total	18310	100.0