Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion

<p>The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion is a product of the&nbsp;<a href="https://religiondatabase.org/" rel="nofollow">Database of Religious History (DRH)</a>. The DRH is a qualitative-quantitative encyclopedic database of historical religious data across time and space. Data are contributed to the project by academic&nbsp;<a href="https://religiondatabase.org/landing/about/people/experts" rel="nofollow">experts</a>&nbsp;and overseen by a panel of&nbsp;<a href="https://religiondatabase.org/landing/about/people/editors" rel="nofollow">editors</a>. The data take the form of answers (provided by experts) to a long list of standard questions grounded in time and space.</p> <p>The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion is &ldquo;standard&rdquo; in a different way than its namesake, The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS). The SCCS was designed to control for region and cultural relatedness. Because of our mostly bottom-up, expert-driven data gathering method, DRH data is heavily overweighted in certain time/space regions. Analysts will have to control for this as they see fit.</p> <p>On the other hand, DRH data is &ldquo;standard&rdquo; in the sense that whatever Group, Place of Text is being portrayed, experts are answering a standardized set of questions, allowing a degree of comparison and quantitative analysis that has simply never been possible before. As the DRH grows, top-down data-gathering pushes will be targeted at underrepresented regions of the world, with the goal of making future versions of the SCCSR more and more comprehensive.</p> <p>The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample of Religion (SCCSR.v2) is provided under CC-BY-4.0 license.</p>