Georeferenced Data of Christian Mission Stations, Ghana (1752-1932)

The data describes Christian mission stations established in Ghana 1752-1932. Data is reported at an annual basis. For all 2,144 mission stations, the data includes station name, denomination, circuity, longitude, latitude, year of entry, exit, whether the station is a main or out-station, and whether it had a school attached. For sub-periods the data also includes information on the number of church members, attendance and seat capacity. The data was mainly sourced from ecclesiastical returns provided by the mission societies and published in the Blue Books of the Gold Coast 1844-1932. The source is a comprehensive Various other sources were consulted to extend the data base to Ghana’s first mission (1752), to include missions from German Togoland incorporated into Ghana after World War I, and to account for years, for which no Blue Books have survived. Mission stations were then georeferenced based on the place name where the mission is located. Coordinates were retrieved from NGA place name gazetteer as well as other sources.

本数据集记录了1752年至1932年间在加纳设立的基督教传教站，数据按年度统计。针对全部2144座传教站，数据集包含以下字段：传教站名称、教派、传教区、经度、纬度、入驻年份、退出年份、该站为主站还是分站，以及是否附设学校。针对部分子时段，数据集还补充了教会信徒人数、礼拜出席人数以及教堂座位容量的相关信息。本数据集主要源自各传教协会提交的教会报表，这些报表刊载于1844年至1932年的英属黄金海岸蓝皮书（Blue Books）。核心数据源已具备较高全面性，此外还通过多种其他来源对数据集进行扩充：将覆盖范围延伸至加纳首个传教站（1752年设立），纳入一战后并入加纳的德属多哥兰（German Togoland）传教站，并填补蓝皮书佚失年份的相关数据。随后，基于传教站所在的地名对其完成地理配准，坐标信息从美国国家地理空间情报局（NGA）地名 gazetteer 及其他来源获取。