Pew Research Center makes the case-level microdata for much of its research available to the public for secondary analysis after a period of time. These datasets are listed below by collection date. A listing of our American Trends Panel datasets and religion datasets are also available. See this post for more information on how to use our datasets and contact us at info@pewresearch.org with any questions.
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This Pew Research Center study is a collection of data on government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion in 198 countries and territories from 2007 to 2022, collected by human coding of more than a dozen publicly available, widely cited sources of information, including the U.S. Department of State’s annual reports on international […]
This dataset provides estimates of the number of people of all ages in seven categories: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, people who belong to other religions, and those who are religiously unaffiliated. The “other religions” category includes Baha’is, Daoists (also spelled Taoists), Jains, Shintoists, Sikhs, Wiccans, Zoroastrians and many small groups, some of which can […]
Download the public-use file (PUF) dataset for the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS), which provides estimates of the U.S. population’s religious composition, beliefs and practices. Pew Research Center.
This downloadable folder includes files with Pew Research Center’s estimates of the religious breakdown of immigrants to, and emigrants from, countries and regions of the world in Excel and csv formats. To help users better understand how estimates were made when available data was incomplete, this folder also includes a case study of documents and […]
This Pew Research Center survey asked 10,390 adults across Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam about religious identify, beliefs and practices. The survey was conducted face-to-face in Vietnam and with phone interviews elsewhere. Interviews were administered from June to September 2023, in seven languages.
This Pew Research Center survey asked 13,122 adults across six countries in South and Southeast Asia about religious identity, beliefs and practices. The survey was conducted face-to-face in four countries and on mobile phones in two countries. Interviews were administered from June to September 2022, in eight languages.
Field dates: Feb. 13 – 25, 2024 Topics: Religion, Israel, and geopolitics
Field dates: July 31 – Aug. 6, 2023 Topics: Spirituality and non-religion
Field dates: Nov. 16 – Nov. 27, 2022 Topics: Religion and politics
Field dates: Sept. 13 – Sept. 18, 2022 Topics: Covid-19, scientists, and religion