Explaining Atheism: Wave 1 Codebook

Welcome

** This is a living document as is not necessarily complete.**

A timestamped final codebook will be published alongside the dataset when this is released

Welcome to the codebook for the first wave of the Explaining Atheism project. Here you will find all the information about what is in the accompanying dataset. This will be followed by two further waves with larger samples and additional countries.

Data

This dataset is being collected via international surveys in Brazil, Denmark annd the UK. Independent surveys for each of the theoretical clusters (Morals/Values; Cognitive Styles; Socialisation; Motivation; and Cognitive Biases) are given to 500 participants in Brazil and Japan. In Denmark we are collecting data on the cognitive bias cluster only. This means our data set will have 2500 participants in both Brazil and the UK, and 500 participants in Denmark.

Codebook Contents

This codebook is organised by the broad theoretical clusters in which we have categorised our variables. For each variable you can find the source of the measure, any changes we have made to it, how we have coded and scored it, along with how we have defined any variables.

There are also additional pages including the response scales we use across many measures, all variable definitions found in the accompanying dataset, along with a scoring function used to score most of the measures.

Additional Information

All information about the project, including scorings scripts for each measures used, is available on our Figshare page upon release, along with on my personal GitHub. This includes links to pre-registrations, materials and the data itself.

If you have any questions or want any further information feel free to contact me at c.russell@qub.ac.uk, or get in touch via my GitHub or Twitter linked on the top left!