Replication Data for: The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa (doi:10.7910/DVN/RBCHZ9)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/RBCHZ9

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2022-06-15

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Becker, Bastian, 2022, "Replication Data for: The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RBCHZ9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:W+HduJbDyzvLqr6UlYyDxQ== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/RBCHZ9

Authoring Entity:

Becker, Bastian (University of Bremen)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Becker, Bastian

Depositor:

Becker, Bastian

Date of Deposit:

2022-04-29

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RBCHZ9

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Colonialism, Christian Missions, Africa

Abstract:

This dataset is based on the 1925 World Missionary Atlas (WMA) by Harlan P. Beach and Charles H. Fahs, published by the Institute for Social and Religious Research (New York). The dataset features aggregated, cross-validated information from maps and indexes contained in the WMA. Overall, it provides information on 1,895 mission stations that were established before 1925. For the purpose of geo--referencing, the WMA maps were digitized and where necessary complemented with additional information on historical place names.

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Citation

Bibliographic Citation:

Becker, Bastian (2022), The Empire Within: Longitudinal Evidence on the Expansion of Christian Missions in Colonial Africa, Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2(2).

File Description--f6191341

File: WMA1925_stations.tab

  • Number of cases: 1895

  • No. of variables per record: 8

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

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Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

id

f6191341 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1895.0; StDev 547.183698587595; Max. 1895.0; Min. 1.0; Mean 948.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:2Zao+EfcLEPGM4SkLNAvpQ==

startdate

f6191341 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1895.5068664169787; Max. 1924.0; Valid 1602.0; Min. 1792.0; StDev 23.35678280990055;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:0udX6sU13g/0a9rEyMsi2w==

enddate

f6191341 Location:

Summary Statistics: Max. 1924.0; Min. 1885.0; Mean 1915.715053763441; Valid 186.0; StDev 4.170616552684538;

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:NM8Psc8jiHslwzmyjaZUIw==

active

f6191341 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1895.0; StDev 0.3197896988899188; Mean 0.8844327176781002; Min. 0.0; Max. 1.0

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1kvvCs0rHhf+Bp1H97mOew==

origin

f6191341 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:7oeJj85VNtAgEWGGb+H0Dw==

colony

f6191341 Location:

Variable Format: character

Notes: UNF:6:opjKAYXDZnYuCE/Zi83DpA==

longitude

f6191341 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 1895.0; Mean 24.40293887353087; Min. -16.67206064; StDev 13.426546811548594; Max. 57.608416

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:AYlmacEbv5/9pSs31XSQMA==

latitude

f6191341 Location:

Summary Statistics: Min. -34.61537757; Max. 36.83849253; Valid 1895.0; StDev 18.8068815244323; Mean -11.10799097415884

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:1MA7RXJmpkEFBmtX6TOd5g==

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

WMA1925_stations_codebook.pdf

Text:

Codebook

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