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Title: Conceptual Framework and Technical Innovations for Creating the Project on Religion & Economy Change Geo-Spatial Database
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: Roots of current differences in economic development, education, health, and political institutions seem to go back decades, even centuries. However, the lack of comprehensive linked data has limited scholars’ ability to test alternate theories empirically. Creating data that are useful for testing long-term theories requires far more than entering information from hundreds of historical sources – it requires developing methods to link these data spatially and temporally, constructing “meaning trees” to link variables accurately between sources, and generating procedures to deal sensitively with the varying quality of data (e.g., missing data, rounded numbers, changing definitions over time). Moreover, we needed to formulate a research approach capable of dealing with many types of sources: i.e., historical documents and archival data, plus . . .
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Authors: Woodberry, Robert, D; Esparza, Juan, C; Porter, Reid; Lu, Xiaoyun
Series Title: Project on Religion and Economic Change Working Paper
Publication Number: 004
Institution: Project on Religion and Economic Change
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Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other
Countries: Mexico