tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570188063083514741.post8681758241871703026..comments2018-11-20T00:49:49.061-05:00Comments on empethop: Analyzing Multi-Question Sets in Pew’s Survey Data to Estimate the Percentages of Muslims Who Hold Moderate or Extremist Views (Part 1 of 2)empethophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15144367266623894559noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570188063083514741.post-13734964211793252152016-07-31T00:09:38.856-04:002016-07-31T00:09:38.856-04:00Hi Reason on Faith,
The denomination identificati...Hi Reason on Faith,<br /><br />The denomination identification information is in Pew's sub-Saharan African data set. It involves some work, but if you download the Pew data file and open it using PSPP (a freely-available stats package), you can then go in to the file and do a crosstabs analysis of q37rec (which gives the denomination -- Sunni, Shia, Ahmadiyya, etc.) as rows and q95c (apostasy), q95d (whippings/cutting), and q95e (stoning adulterers) as columns. For most other questions in that data set you will have to filter the analysis by major religion, but not for the q95 series because it was only asked of Muslims.<br /><br />Pew's sub-Saharan data (2009):<br />http://www.pewforum.org/datasets/tolerance-and-tension-islam-and-christianity-in-sub-saharan-africa/<br /><br />Pew's published report for that (2009) data:<br />http://www.pewforum.org/2010/04/15/executive-summary-islam-and-christianity-in-sub-saharan-africa/<br />(see Complete Report pdf)<br /><br />How to open a Pew data file and do a crosstabs analysis using PSPP, described here (skip down to the end of the article):<br /><br />http://empethop.blogspot.ca/2015/02/a-look-at-pews-2013-worlds-muslims.html<br /><br />How to make a filter variable (see Appendix B in the linked article):<br /><br />http://empethop.blogspot.ca/2016/07/estimated-numbers-and-percentages-of_3.html<br /><br /><br />Probably the main reason Pew didn't report on the denomination subsets in their sub-Saharan data is that the Muslim sample sizes weren't big enough for that type of analysis. 298 people (raw count) across several countries is not bad though for getting a very rough idea of where Ahmadis stand on these issues. The Ahmadis explicitly categorized as such "volunteered" that identification. There may be additional Ahmadis in some of the other categories listed for q37rec.<br /><br />I should add that there are other survey data sets available online where the specific denomination information is given, so even if the researchers haven't presented those particular results in their reports, you can still go in and find them in the data file.empethophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15144367266623894559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570188063083514741.post-82901632751018930242016-07-30T22:04:44.183-04:002016-07-30T22:04:44.183-04:00Where can one see how the Ahmadis answered, to con...Where can one see how the Ahmadis answered, to connect their identification as Ahmadis with the positions on death for apostasy, etc.?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933680513018551945noreply@blogger.com