World Christian Database: field definitions

Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).

Table Field Description
version_2015_theological_education_directory Languages Languages of instruction.
version_2015_theological_education_directory Narrative Narrative usually from the institution's web page.
version_2015_theological_education_directory Office region Region in which the main office is located.
version_2015_theological_education_directory Version 2015 Theological Education Directory ID Unique identifier (primary key) used by the database.
version_2015_theological_education_directory Web page URL Web page URL of the institution in 2015.
version_2015_theological_education_directory Work regions Regions in which the institution works.
version_2020_country % Agnostics who know Christians Percent of Agnostics who know Christians.
version_2020_country % Buddhists who know Christians Percent of Buddhists who know Christians.
version_2020_country % Christians who know Agnostics Percent of Christians who know Agnostics.
version_2020_country % Christians who know Buddhists Percent of Christians who know Buddhists.
version_2020_country % Christians who know Ethnic religionists Percent of Christians who know Ethnic religionists.
version_2020_country % Christians who know Hindus Percent of Christians who know Hindus.
version_2020_country % Christians who know Muslims Percent of Christians who know Muslims.
version_2020_country % Christians who know non-Christians Percent of Christians who know non-Christians.
version_2020_country % Ethnic religionists who know Christians Ethnic religionists who know Christians.
version_2020_country % Hindus who know Christians Percent of Hindus who know Christians.
version_2020_country % Muslims who know Christians Percent of Muslims who know Christians.
version_2020_country % non-Christians who know Christians Percent of non-Christians who know Christians.
version_2020_country Adult % Adults (age 15 and over) as percentage of this country's total population. Primary source: United Nations 2019.
version_2020_country Adult literacy % The ability to read and write, as measured by the percentage of the population ages 15 and older who can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on their everyday life. Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2006-2016).
version_2020_country Adult literates The ability to read and write, as measured by the percentage of the population ages 15 and older who can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on their everyday life. Primary source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018) (in HDR 2018: most recent year in the period 2005-2018).
version_2020_country Adults Population of those age 15 and over in this country in 2020. Primary source: United Nations 2019 revision.
version_2020_country Agencies-in-Peoples Total agencies-in-peoples for this country. A smaller number represents a smaller presence. "agencies-in-peoples" is a measure of the widespread distribution of mission agencies across the world which quantifies one agency working in 50 peoples as 50 of these units.
version_2020_country Agnostic % Number of agnostics as a percentage of the country's population in year 2020 These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations.
version_2020_country Agnostics Number of agnostic persons in this country's population. These are persons professing no religion, or professing unbelief or non-belief, non-believers, agnostics, freethinkers, liberal thinkers, non-religious humanists, indifference to both religion and atheism, apathetic, opposed on principle neither to religion nor to atheism; sometimes termed secularists or materialists; also post-Christian, dechristianized or de-religionized populations.
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