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Impacting the World with Data:From a million data points to maps that tell the story OR Translating academic rigor into public information
Brian J. Grim, Ph.D.Senior Researcher
Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life
Washington, DC
Visiting Researcher
Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs (CURA)
Boston University
A peek at this presentation’s conclusion, which was made possible by a database:
– a finding involving the work of more than 50 demographers and social scientists around the globe
– released at IUSSP in Marrakech, Morocco
– later covered by all major news outlets (with differing slants), including the comedic ‘news’ show the Colbert Report
– here’s the Fox headline ...
First, the database ... and a related publication ...
Province-level data on religious affiliation ...
Province-level data on religious violence ...
The Price of Freedom Denied:Religious Persecution and Conflict in the 21st Century(Fall 2010)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
... and a less data-heavy related publication drawing on data from the ARDA as well ...
Now, the exciting part – managing and selecting the data that went into the Muslim population report (with the help of a web interface over an Access-type relational database) ...
◄ Back to country page
◄ Archiving religion-specific TFR, age-structure, migration & religiosity
89.60%90.74%88.70%88.71%Muslims
Other:
(Census)
Range Max:
(DHS)
Range Min:
(Pew GAP)
WRD
estimate:Bangladesh
WRD Best Estimate vs. Range of Estimates vs. Pew
The Pew Forum Report
Limited Interactive Maps & Tables
Impacting the World with Data
On the horizon with geo-coded religion-related violence data ...