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Philadelphia, March 27 th , 2010

Spatial Studies of Religion and Chinese Society FENGGANG YANG Center on religion and Chinese society Purdue University. Philadelphia, March 27 th , 2010. Data Progressing. Exploratory: what can be done with the data?

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Philadelphia, March 27 th , 2010

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  1. Spatial Studies of Religion and Chinese SocietyFENGGANG YANGCenter on religion and Chinese societyPurdue University Philadelphia, March 27th, 2010

  2. Data Progressing • Exploratory: what can be done with the data? • The data: the official census of all religious sites registered with the government (the “Red Market”) • Address, year of founding, etc. • Geocoding: coordinate the addresses (Batch Geocoding), inaccuracy and irregular format. • Include 6138 religious organizations in Zhejiang. • Draw maps. (by ArcGIS; by GoogleMaps)

  3. Religious Map of Zhejiang • DrawnBy ArcGIS • DrawnBy GoogleMaps

  4. An Analysis: Description-Proportion

  5. An Analysis: Description-Time Series • The periodic variations of five religions are highly concurrent. • Two turning points: 1980 and 1999. What happened?

  6. An Analysis: Hypothesis • Object : officially registered religious organizations • The “red market” in the triple market theory • The political economy of religion in China: demand, supply, and regulation • Demographic and economic factors of religious change; religious competition factor • Hypothesis: The overriding factor of the “red market” change is religious regulation.

  7. An Analysis: Data • DV: number of organizations. • IV: GDP, population, age, education, and etc.. • Unit: year; area (county/township level) • Merge with basic socioeconomic data: • Economic data : Zhejiang Statistical Yearbook (only county level), Zhejiang Township Statistical Yearbook (only rural areas). • Demographic data: 2000 Township Population Census Data (from Prof. Bao). • Data shortage.

  8. An Analysis: GDP (Time)

  9. An Analysis: GDP (Space)

  10. An Analysis: Demographic Factors (Space)

  11. An Analysis: Summary • Conclusion: there is no significant correlation between the size of “red market” and socio-economic factors in on the county level. • Interpretation 1: data limitation. • Zhejiang is special, need to expand to Whole China. • Intra-county differences are huge, need to expand to township level (n=1844). • Other socio-economic data (e.g. edu) need to be added. • Interpretation 2: possibly, no correlation at all. • A strong exogenous variable: religious regulation. • Quantify religious regulation?

  12. Future Plan • Establish “Religious Organization Database”: • Expand to whole China. • Expand to township level. • Merge with other religious data, esp. data of individual level (the Chinese Spiritual Life Survey). • Merge with more socioeconomic data. • Conduct further data mining and analysis.

  13. Thanks!FENGGANG YANGCenter on religion and Chinese societyPurdue University Philadelphia, March 27th, 2010

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