Replication materials for: "Overcoming Barriers to Interreligious Peace: Determinants of preferences for religiously similar others in Togo and Sierra Leone"

The published data and documents provide information to replicate the analyses of the paper "Overcoming Barriers to Interreligious Peace: Determinants of preferences for religiously similar others in Togo and Sierra Leone" by Julia Köbrich, Tobias H. Stark, Borja Martinović and Seyram Adiakpo that will be published in Political Psychology. Data were collected as part of the project 'Religion for Peace: Identifying Conditions and Mechanisms of Interfaith Peace' conducted at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies funded by the German Research Foundation. The data provides individual-level and neighborhood-level information from two linked data collection efforts (71 variables). On the individual level, the data comprises information on preferences for similar others, religious ideas, coping and emotion regulation skills, knowledge of outgroup practices, descriptive and injunctive norms as well as demographic information. On the neighborhood level, the data comprises information on ten elements used to measure interreligious peace (interreligious violence, noise due to places of worship, the quality of relations, avoidance between people of different religions, interreligious marriages, interreligious prayers, contact between religious leaders as well as interreligious trust, cooperation and hostile attitudes). The R-syntax replicates all quantitative analyses reported in the paper and its online supplement. Individual-level data were collected as part of a household survey conducted in 50 neighborhoods in Lomé (Togo) and Freetown (Sierra Leone) via computer assisted personal interviewing (Data collection in Lomé: 24.10.2022 to 08.11.2022; in Freetown: 26.11.2022 to 13.12.2022). A stratified sampling procedure was followed: First, 25 neighborhoods per city taking into account religious demography were randomly selected. The study was conducted in 19 religiously mixed (8 Lomé/ 11 Freetown), 15 predominantly Christian (9 Lomé/ 6 Freetown) and 16 predominantly Muslim (8 per city) neighborhoods. Within neighborhoods, households were selected using a random-walk procedure. Participants were randomly chosen from a list of eligible household members. Adult residents of Lomé and Freetown who were able to communicate with the enumerators and gave informed consent were eligible for participation. Respondents had the choice to be interviewed in English or Krio in Sierra Leone and in French or Ewe in Togo. In Sierra Leone 6% chose English and 94% Krio and in Togo 46% chose French and 54% Ewe. The published data include information on Muslim and Christian participants excluding 3 Christian particpants that erroneously answered questionnaires for Muslims (N=1828). Neighborhood-level data was collected through expert group surveys using CAPI within the same randomly chosen neighborhoods in which individual-level data was collected. Neighborhood-level data was collected at the same time as individual-level data (Lomé: 27.10 - 14.11.2022; Freetown: 01.12.-10.12.2022). Researchers collecting the data, assembled three to five experts on the neighborhood (e.g. longtime residents, shop-owners, traditional leaders, religious leaders, women representatives or youth representatives). Experts were asked questions about their neighborhood, which they were to answer after consulting each other.