Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010

Principal Investigator(s): Tessler, Mark, University of Michigan

Summary:

The Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset includes both individual-level and country-level variables. Data on individual-level variables are drawn from 34 surveys carried out in 12 Arab countries, Turkey, and Iran. Taken together, a total of 54,894 men and women were surveyed. Almost all of the surveys involved face-to-face interviews. Most of the surveys were carried out either as the first wave of the Arab Barometer, the third, fourth, and fifth waves of the World Values Survey, or a project on attitudes related to governance carried out by Mark Tessler with funding from the National Science Foundation. The dataset also includes 4 earlier surveys, as well as variables based on 34 time-specific country-level characteristics, for example, Freedom House political freedom ratings; labor force attributes compiled by the World Bank, the United Nations and others; natural resource rents, also complied by the World Bank; ratings on the United Nations Human Development Index; freedom of religion indices developed by the United States Department of State; and linguistic, ethnic and religious fractionalization indices compiled in a private research project. Demographic variables include age, sex, education, employment status, marital status, religion, and income.

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Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010

Documentation:

Codebook.pdf

Download:

SAS SPSS Stata R ASCII Delimited All Dataset Files (194,850 KB)
ASCII + SAS Setup SPSS Setup Stata Setup

Analyze Online:

run simple crosstab/frequency online analysis with SDA

Tessler, Mark. Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010. ICPSR32302-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-01-10. doi:10.3886/ICPSR32302.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32302.v2

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This survey was funded by:

Carnegie Corporation

Subject Terms: cultural identity, democracy, employment, ethnic identity, family relations, government performance, Islam, Islamic law, marital status, neighbors, personal finances, political behavior, political interest, political participation, political systems, politicians, politics, public opinion, religion, religious behavior, religious leaders, trust in government, voting behavior, womens rights

Smallest Geographic Unit: country

Geographic Coverage: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Global, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Middle East, Morocco, North Africa, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Yemen

Time Period:

1988--2010

Date of Collection:

1988--2010

Unit of Observation: individual, country

Universe: Data for individual-level variables are drawn from 12 Arab countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen) Turkey, and Iran. Users should refer to the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook for further information regarding where country-level variables were drawn from.

Data Types: survey data

Data Collection Notes:

Information about the Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2010 can be found by visiting the Arab Barometer Web site and the World Values Survey Web site. For additional related project Web sites please see Survey Methodology Information under the Original P.I. Documentation section of the ICPSR Codebook.

Funded through Carnegie Corporation of New York "Carnegie Scholar Award to Mark Tessler through the Islamic Scholar Program".

Sample: The dataset includes both individual-level and country-level variables. Data on individual-level variables are drawn from 34 surveys carried out in 12 Arab countries, Turkey, and Iran. Taken together, a total of 54,894 men and women were surveyed. Please refer to the Introductory Overview and Survey Methodology Information sections of the Original P.I. Documentation in the ICPSR Codebook for more details.

Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release: 2012-02-15

Version History:

2013-02-04 Value labels for the variable M21 have been corrected in the data collection.
2013-01-10 The Arab-Barometer Kuwait Survey from 2006 has been removed from this dataset. As a result, the number of surveys that were merged into one data file was changed from 35 to 34 by the P.I., which also changed the total number of respondents from 56,178 to 54,894.