Original Datasets
The CAPED-2010s
The Cross-sectional Amish Population & Environment Database-2010s is a demographic database with ~55,000 Amish households from the 2010s, i.e. 89.9% of the Amish population. The CAPED-2010s includes (1) nearly all vital statistics of household members, (2) geocoded street addresses, and (3) social variables, including household’s particular subsect/denomination, occupation, retention/attrition, and others.
U.S. Religion Census 2020: 73 Plain Anabaptist Groups
Plain Anabaptist population data by denomination for 2010 and 2020. The data publicly available through the full U.S. Religion Census includes aggregate number of congregations, members, and adherents (total population) at the U.S. County level. See the dedicated page for more information.
I retain a larger version not publicly available that includes individual congregation names, GPS coordinates of meetinghouses, year of congregation’s establishment, and other congregation-specific data; coverage is global, with particular accuracy for the U.S. and Canada.
Amish-Mennonite Adolescent Social Network
A cross-sectional dataset of nearly 100 Amish-Mennonite adolescents, including friendship links in a closed social network and a social-cultural survey.
Amish-Mennonites across the Globe
Over 200 transcribed in-depth interviews of Amish-Mennonite expats, missionaries, and religious in-converts in Latin America, Africa, and Europe.
Various archival sources
Archival primary resources about health, institutional organization, and history, including numerous periodicals, plain Anabaptist-authored books, and unpublished documents. Only some are available in digital form.
Amish Studies Annotations and Citation Network
A by-topic organized collection of annotations from over 1,000 Amish research publications. The collection also includes citation network data, citing which Amish studies publications cite which others. I make available complete lists of references by subject without requiring co-author to ensure researchers studying the Amish have access to all relevant literature.
U.S. Religion Census 2010: Amish-Mennonite Contributions
Amish-Mennonite (i.e. Beachy and related) population data by denomination. The data publicly available through the full U.S. Religion Census includes aggregate number of congregations and adherents (total population) at the U.S. County level. See the dedicated page for more information.
