Religious Characteristics of States Data Project - Chief Executives' Religions, v. 1.0 (RCS-CER 1.0), COUNTRIES ONLY - Codebook

All frequencies are raw numbers (no weights used).

1) Country Code assigned by RCS, generally following COW (CCODE)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11333	457.02	261.70

2) Three-letter abbreviation assigned by RCS, generally following COW (ABBREV)
3) Calendar year of observation (YEAR)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11335	1,987.28	19.69

4) Country Code in Systemic Peace dataset (Polity) [country-year only]. Field missing if state-year missing from Polity dataset (SCODE)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	9858	458.66	244.28

5) Three-letter abbreviation in Systemic Peace dataset (Polity) [country-year only]. Field missing if state-year missing from Polity dataset (SABBREV)
6) Country Code assigned by Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). Field missing if state not included in ARDA National Profiles (ARDAID)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11104	126.21	70.41

7) Country Code assigned by International Standards Organization (used by Religion And State dataset) [country-year only]. Field missing if state not included in ISO 3166 (NUMISO)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11178	425.58	250.91

8) Three-letter abbreviation assigned by International Standards Organization (used by Religion And State dataset) [country-year only]. Field missing if state not included in ISO 3166 (ISO3)
9) Country/Region Code assigned by United Nations [country-year only]. Field missing if state not assigned code by UN (UNCODE)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11178	425.58	250.91

10) Whether state is independent on December 31 of observed year [country-year only] (INDEP)

	TOTAL	%
0) No	62	0.5
1) Yes	11273	99.5
Total	11335	100.0

11) Whether state is in Polity dataset at any time during observed year [country-year only] (INPOLITY)

	TOTAL	%
0) No	1494	13.2
1) Yes	9841	86.8
Total	11335	100.0

12) Whether state is in COW dataset at any time during observed year [country-year only] (INCOW)

	TOTAL	%
0) No	428	3.8
1) Yes	10907	96.2
Total	11335	100.0

13) Number of persons holding the office of chief executive in the observed year (XCNUM)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11330	1.23	0.65

14) Name of chief executive's religion for the most days in the observed year (XCRNAME)
15) ID code of the chief executive's religion/denomination (unordered categorical). Uses the narrowest RCS ID code available for the religion/denomination. (XCRID)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	9632	2,822.38	2,396.20

16) Number of days in the observed in which the XCRID (above) is that of the chief executive. Note: If more than one chief executive is of the observed religion, XCRDAYS reflects the number of days that all of that religion's affiliates were in office. (XCRDAYS)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11309	356.47	36.44

17) Second - or top-tier RCS ID code of the chief executive's religion (unordered categorical) (XCR2ID)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	9632	2,790.66	2,415.12

18) Number of days in the observed in which the XCR2ID (above) is that of the chief executive. Note: If more than one chief executive is of the second - or top-tier religion, XCR2DAYS reflects the number of days that all of that religion's affiliates were in office. (XCR2DAYS)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	11294	356.97	35.70