Data & Documentation

Explore National Survey of Religious Leaders data and results.

Download the Data

You can download the public data from the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) or the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Restricted datasets, including a link between NSRL data and complete data from the fourth wave of the National Congregations Study, more detailed geographical information, and a link between NSRL data and data from General Social Survey respondents who attended the congregation served by each NSRL respondent, soon will be available through NORC at the University of Chicago.

Questionnaire

You can review either the document used to program the online instrument or the hard copy questionnaire.

Codebook

Review the NSRL codebook, which contains methodological details and descriptions of all variables in the NSRL dataset.

Summary Table

Explore NSRL results in this summary table.

Weights Document

Read the detailed description of NSRL sample weights.

Non-Response Bias

Read a detailed assessment of non-response bias in the NSRL sample.