Religious salience is a composite index of belief, prayer, attendance, and importance

Evidence

We use the Muslim and Evangelical Protestant rates of adherence per 1,000 people and include a measure of religious salience within each state, taken from the Pew Religious Landscape Study (2014). Religious salience was operationalized as a 0-1 index of religiosity based on respondent answers to four questions about the importance of religion in their life, religious attendance, frequency of prayer, and belief in God. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 51

Categorization

• DEFINE: Specifies the four survey items and the 0-1 index construction behind ‘religious salience.’
• XREF: Connects to Pew Religious Landscape Study data you may already use, and to ASARB adherence rates via TheARDA.