Data source: Gina A. Zurlo, ed., World Religion Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2023).
| Table | Field | Description |
|---|---|---|
| version_2020_province | Area square miles | Area covered by Major Civil Division (United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) in square miles in this province. |
| version_2020_province | Country | Country of this Province. |
| version_2020_province | Governmental Favoritism Index | Governmental Favoritism of religion Index, 0-10, low is less favoritism: a comparative measure of the actions of the state that provide one religion or a small group of religions special privileges, support, or favorable sanctions. |
| version_2020_province | Governmental Restrictions Index | Governmental Restrictions of religion Index, 0-10, low is less restriction: a comparative measure of the actions of the state that deny religious freedoms including any actions that impinge on the practice, profession, or selection of religion. |
| version_2020_province | Note | Additional descriptive data for this province. |
| version_2020_province | Province | Name of the Major Civil Division (United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) as it is known to its inhabitants. |
| version_2020_province | Province Capital | Name of Province's capital city if major Civil Division (United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) has one. |
| version_2020_province | Province pk | Unique province identifier (primary key) used by the database. |
| version_2020_province | Province Pop | Province population in each MCD (Major Civil Division-United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) in 2020. |
| version_2020_province | Province Pop % | Province population in each MCD (Major Civil Division-United Nations’ term for the next level of administrative or political subdivision in a country immediately below nationwide level) as a percentage of the country's population. |
| version_2020_province | Religions over 1% | Provides the best estimate of the majority religion percentage (rounded to integer); and then a list of the names of other religions over 1%. |
| version_2020_province | Religious conflict | Religious conflict Index, 0-10, low is less conflict: a comparative measure of religious violence (persecution, which includes displacement and property damage) and religion-related conflict (civil wars). |
| version_2020_province | Religious Freedom Index | Restriction of Religious Freedom Index, 0-10, high is less freedom: Calculated as the country average of government restrictions (GRI) and social restrictions (SRI). Province scores within countries are increased by up to 3 additional points: +1 if a particular province has Shari'a Law (only added if not already counted in the country's overall scores), +1 if religious violence (persecution) was documented in the province, and + 1 if there legal issues in that province that would be likely to adversely affect religious freedom. |
| version_2020_province | Religious violence | Religious violence Index, 0-10, low is less violence: a comparative measure of religious violence (persecution, which includes displacement and property damage). |
| version_2020_province | Social Hostilities Index | Social Hostilities of religion Index, 0-10, low is less restriction: a comparative measure of the restrictions placed on practice, profession, or selection of religion by other religious groups or associations or the culture at large. |
| version_2020_province | Version 2020 Country code | Four-letter abbreviation assigned to country for database purposes. |
| wlc_language | Anglicized name | Anglicized name. |
| wlc_language | Country count | Count of countries with people speaking this as their primary mother-tongue. |
| wlc_language | indent Reference name | The autoglossonym of a language or dialect, or a cover name for groups of languages. Languages are indented 2 spaces; dialects are indented 4 spaces. |
| wlc_language | Language Cluster | Also termed outer language, a grouping of languages which shares 80% or more lexical similarity (shared words, the basic vocabulary of human experience). |
| wlc_language | Language code | Three letter ISO 639-3 language code. A single code usually means 'this WLC dialect is included as part of this ISO language'. Multiple codes indicate either that 'this WLC cluster of languages {includes} these ISO languages', or that 'there is no match to the ISO (yet), but as a guide these {near} ISO codes occur elsewhere in the cluster. |
| wlc_language | Language level | The level that this language code occupies in the World Language Classification hierarchy. Languages and dialects are spoken and other levels describe groups of languages of variable inter-intelligibility. |
| wlc_language | Language level number | Number of the level that this language code occupies in the World Language Classification hierachy. Languages and dialects are spoken and other levels describe groups of languages of variable inter-intelligibility. |
| wlc_language | Language net | A grouping of languages sharing 70% or more common vocabulary. |
| wlc_language | Language population | Mother tongue speakers. |
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