DOI: 10.3886/icpsr32302.v1
title: Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2014
title: Version 1

description: The Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset includes both individual-level and country-level variables. Data on individual-level variables are drawn from 56 surveys carried out in 14 Arab countries, Turkey, and Iran. Taken together, a total of 82,489 men and women were surveyed. Almost all of the surveys involved face-to-face interviews. Most of the surveys were carried out either as the first, second, and third wave of the Arab Barometer, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth waves of the World Values Survey, or a project on attitudes related to governance carried out by Mark Tessler with funding from the National Science Foundation. The dataset also includes four earlier surveys, as well as variables based on 34 time-specific country-level characteristics, for example, Freedom House political freedom ratings; labor force attributes compiled by the World Bank, the United Nations and others; natural resource rents, also compiled by the World Bank; ratings on the United Nations Human Development Index; freedom of religion indices developed by the United States Department of State; and linguistic, ethnic and religious fractionalization indices compiled in a private research project. Demographic variables include age, sex, education, employment status, marital status, religion, and income.
description: The data are not weighted.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS1: Dataset
description: Arab Barometer Public Opinion Survey Series
description: face-to-face interview 
 Information about the Carnegie Middle East Governance and Islam Dataset, 1988-2014 can be found by visiting the Arab Barometer Web site and the World Values Survey Web site. For additional project-related Web sites, please see the Survey Methodology Information section of the Original P.I. Documentation, located within the ICPSR Codebook. 
This collection was funded through the "Carnegie Scholar Award" to Mark Tessler through the Islamic Scholar Program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
description: Data for individual-level variables are drawn from 14 Arab countries (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen), Turkey, and Iran. For information regarding country-level variables, users should refer to the County-Level Variables section of the Original P.I. Codebook, found in the Original P.I. Documentation within the ICPSR Codebook. Smallest Geographic Unit: country
description: The dataset includes individual-level and country-level variables. Individual-level variable data are drawn from 56 surveys carried out in 14 Arab countries, Turkey, and Iran. Taken together, a total of 82,489 men and women were surveyed. For additional information, please refer to the Introductory Overview and Survey Methodology Information sections of the Original P.I. Documentation, located within the ICPSR Codebook.