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 ResearcherPew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public LifeWashington, DC

Visiting ResearcherInstitute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs (CURA)Boston University

A peek at this presentation’s conclusion, which was made possible by a database:

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a finding involving the work of more than 50 demographers and social scientists around the globe

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released at IUSSP in Marrakech,

Morocco

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later covered by all major news outlets (with differing slants), including the comedic ‘news’

show the Colbert Report

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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

Bangladesh

WRD estimate:

Range Min:(Pew GAP)

Range Max:(DHS)

Other:(Census)

Muslims 88.71% 88.70% 90.74% 89.60%

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 ...