Data and Code for: Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Irena Grosfeld, Paris School of Economics; Etienne Madinier, Paris School of Economics; Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, King's College London; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics (EHESS) and CEPR

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Project Citation: 

Grosfeld, Irena, Madinier, Etienne, Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan, and Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina. Data and Code for: Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-08-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192089V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
Exploring a drastic change in media landscape in Poland, we show that mainstream media can significantly affect religious participation. After nationalist populist party PiS came to power in 2015, news on state and private independent TV diverged due to propaganda on state TV, resulting in a switch of some of its audience to independent TV. Municipalities with access to independent TV continued to follow a long-term secularization trend, while municipalities with access only to state TV experienced a reversal of this trend. An online experiment sheds light on the mechanisms underlying the effect of exposure to independent news on religiosity.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources The European Research Council (ERC) for funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program (646662)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms religious behavior; propaganda; mass media; media coverage; media influence
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      L82 Entertainment; Media
      P00 Economic Systems: General
      Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Poland
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2009 – 2019
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 4/29/2020 – 5/11/2020 (Collection dates for the first round of the survey experiment data); 5/25/2020 – 5/29/2020 (Collection dates for the follow-up round of the survey experiment data)
Universe:  View help for Universe Municipalities in Poland
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data; experimental data; geographic information system (GIS) data; observational data; program source code; survey data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes The package includes data from a survey experiment:
Grosfeld, I., Madinier, E., Sakalli, S. O., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2020). Survey-experiment: Trust in the Church and Information Treatments About Pedophilia Cover-up within the Church and Church's Political Ties [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10514775

Methodology

Response Rate:  View help for Response Rate The universe of municipalities and regions are covered in the observational data. In the experimental data, we had set quotas for 24 populations (by age, gender, education). The poll has been kept open by our partners, CBOS and Opinie.pl, until the quotas were filled. The response rate in the follow-up round of the survey was 78.2%.
Sampling:  View help for Sampling All municipalities and regions of Poland are covered in the observational study. 9,416 voting-age Poles were randomly drawn from a pool of over 100,000 subscribers to the Opinie.pl online platform in the experimental study.
Data Source:  View help for Data Source Administrative records, Nielsen, ISKK, GIS sources, Twitter, survey experiment.
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) computer-assisted self interview (CASI); other; web scraping
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Municipality and region for observational part of the study, and individuals for experimental part
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit Municipality

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