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Description of files in the Replicability Archive

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Data has been analysed with StataMP 16.
Corresponding author: julia.klein@abo.fi


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1. Meta information 

- Contains txt-file listing information on data availability, variables used and sample sizes. 



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2. Full life tables

   CSV-file which contains the full life tables from which the estimates presented in the article stem. 
   Life tables are for 5-year age groups in 10-year time intervalls, seperated by: 
	- sex
	- whether a person was born in Finland or abroad
	- religious affiliation. 
   For every time period of (roughly) 10 years, life table estimates for every age group are presented, 
   plus standard error and 95% confidence interval for ex. 



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3. Description of Stata Code files

   Stata code used in the analyses in txt-format. 

- Code_1_Raw data_present-dead
  Prepares raw data in a way inidcates whether persons present in the data in at the beginning of a year are 
  alive/deceased/emigrated by the end of the same year. 

- Code_2_Raw data_present-dead+religion
  Adds information on religious affiliation at the beginning of a year for persons present at that time. 

- Code_3_Raw data_define rel36
  Reduces number of religious affiliations to into smaller groups: 
  --> rel3 == Evangelic-Lutheran / other / none
  --> rel6 == Evangelic-Lutheran / Orthodox / other Protestant / other Christian / non-Christian / none

- Code_4_Collapse raw data+define WHO
  Counts number of persons with each religion at every single age at the beginning of a year and whether they are alive/deceased at the end of the year

- Code_5_Prepare data for different age+period specifications
  Number of persons at every single age in every single year is summed up for 4 different specifications, marked with different suffixes at the end of each variable
  - 1_1 : every single age, every single year
  - 5_1 : 5-year agegroups, every single year
  - 5_5 : 5-year agegroups summed up over 5-year time periods
  - 5_10: 5-year agegroups summed up over 10-year time periods --> All results presented in this article refer to these calculations

- Code_6_Life table calculations
  Life table calculations are run for all 4 specifications of agegroups and time periods. 
- Code_7_Graphs_txt
  Prepares the graphs shown in this article

- Code_8_Life tables for Appendix
  Extracts the full life tables for "5_10"-indicator from all the life tables calculated in step 6