Religious Characteristics of States Data Project - Chief Executives' Religions, v. 1.0 (RCS-CER 1.0), INDIVIDUALS 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	2911	436.71	264.38

2) 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	2852	128.16	71.26

3) Three-letter abbreviation assigned by RCS, generally following COW (ABBREV)
4) Country Name [not in country-year dataset] (CNAME)
5) First year of the person's time in office (FIRSTYEAR)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2910	1,983.97	21.73

6) First month of the person's time in office (FIRSTMONTH)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2908	6.45	3.52

7) First day of the person's time in office, i.e. in office at 11:59 pm local time (FIRSTDAY)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2907	13.96	9.44

8) Last year of the person's time in office (LASTYEAR)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2715	1,985.80	20.67

9) Last month of the person's time in office (LASTMONTH)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2713	6.64	3.53

10) Last full day of the person's time in office, i.e. still in office at 11:59 pm local time (LASTDAY)

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2712	17.14	9.53

11) Official name of the office in which the person serves (XCPOSNAME)
12) Full name of the chief executive (XCFULLNAME)
13) Common given name of the chief executive (XCGIVENNAME)
14) Family name of the chief executive (XCFAMNAME)
15) Name of the chief executive's religion/denomination (XCRNAME)
16) 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	2026	2,565.71	2,159.66

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

	N	Mean	Std. Deviation
Total	2026	2,533.78	2,177.15

18) Text remarks as necessary (REMARKS)