Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset Family

Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset Family 2021

The EPR Dataset Family provides data on ethnic groups’ access to state power, their settlement patterns, links to rebel organizations, transborder ethnic kin relations, and intraethnic cleavages. The 2014 version has been introduced in Vogt, Bormann, Rüegger, Cederman, Hunziker, Girardin (2015) and has been updated in 2021 in a series of data sets on ethnicity that have stimulated civil war research in the past decade. It features a comprehensive system of tightly integrated data sets:

                        
EPR CorePolitically relevant ethnic groups

The EPR Core dataset identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups and their
                        access to state power in every country of the world from 1946 to 2021. It includes annual data on over 800
                        groups and codes the degree to which their representatives held executive-level state power—from total control
                        of the government to overt political discrimination.

GeoEPRPolygons describing ethnic groups

The GeoEPR dataset provides geo-spatial information about every politically relevant ethnic group. It assigns to each ethnic group one of six settlement patterns and, if relevant, provides polygons describing their location on a digital map.

ACD2EPRConflicts between ethnic groups

The ACD2EPR docking dataset links conflicts inventoried in UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset to politically relevant ethnic groups.

                        
EPR-TEKTransnational ethnic connections

The Transborder Ethnic Kin (EPR-TEK) dataset records all politically relevant ethnic groups living in at least two countries, i.e. ethnic groups with transnational ethnic connections and whose settlement area is split by an international border.

EPR-EDEthno-linguistic, -religious, and -racial cleavages

The Ethnic Dimensions (EPR-ED) dataset provides information on the linguistic, religious, and racial cleavages that characterize and internally divide the politically relevant ethnic groups.

EPR-EREthnic composition of refugees

The Ethnicity of Refugees (EPR-ER) dataset records the ethnic composition of refugee stocks worldwide for the years 1975 to 2020.

The EPR Dataset Family is complemented by the EPR Aggregate Group (EPR-AG) data.

Download

The current version of the EPR dataset family is available in research-ready country-year and group-year format from the GROW^up Research Front-End data portal.

You may also download the latest version (2021, released on June 8, 2021) of the raw EPR component datasets directly in CSV (UTF-8 encoded), JSON, Excel (.xls), Excel 2007 OOXML (.xlsx), Shapefile, and SQL formats:

	Codebook	CSV	Tab-delimited	JSON	Excel	Excel 2007	Shapefile	SQL
EPR Core Dataset 2021
GeoEPR Dataset 2021
ACD2EPR Dataset 2021
EPR-TEK Dataset 2021
EPR-ED Dataset 2021
EPR-ER Dataset 2021

Citation

When using these datasets in your research, please cite the following publication:

Vogt, Manuel, Nils-Christian Bormann, Seraina Rüegger, Lars-Erik Cederman, Philipp Hunziker, and Luc Girardin. 2015. “Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict: The Ethnic Power Relations Data Set Family.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(7): 1327–42.

When using EPR-ED in your research, please include the following reference:

Bormann, Nils-Christian, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Manuel Vogt. 2017. “Language, Religion, and Ethnic Civil War.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(4): 744–71.

When using EPR-ER in your research, please include the following reference:

Rüegger, Seraina, and Heidrun Bohnet. 2018. “The Ethnicity of Refugees (ER): A New Dataset for Understanding Flight Patterns.” Conflict Management and Peace Science. 35(1): 65–88.

When referring to the original dataset EPR v. 1.1 please cite:

Cederman, Lars-Erik, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. 2010. “Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis.” World Politics 62(1): 87–119.

When referring to the original GeoEPR v. 2.0 dataset please cite:

Wucherpfennig, Julian, Nils B. Weidmann, Luc Girardin, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Andreas Wimmer. 2011. “Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 28(5): 423–37.

When referring to the original ACD2EPR v. 1.2 dataset please cite:

Wucherpfennig, Julian, Nils W. Metternich, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch. 2012. “Ethnicity, the State, and the Duration of Civil War.” World Politics 64(1): 79–115.

Team

Contact

For general enquiries about the EPR Dataset Family, please contact Luc Girardin.

Current

Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Seraina Rüegger, Guy Schvitz

Former members

Nils-Christian Bormann, Kristian S. Gleditsch, Philipp Hunziker, Nils Metternich, Carl Müller-Crepon, Francisco Villamil, Manuel Vogt Nils B. Weidmann Julian Wucherpfennig

Country experts and GIS coders

Nino Abzianidze, Daniela Arauz, Dennis Atzenhofer, Corinne Bara, Emily A. Beaulieu, Sandra Berger, Heidrun Bohnet, Nils-Christian Bormann, Camiel Boukhaf, Johan Brosche, Ana Maria Burgos, Fabien Cottier, Sarah Däscher, Lukas Dick, Benjamin Füglister, Naomi Furnish Yamada, Alina Gäumann, Armando Geller, Eloise Harris, Jacqueline Heinzelmann, Mirjam Hirzel, Andreas Juon, Julia Karpati, Nora Keller, Vanessa Kellerhals, Fabiana Koller, Davina Krumbholz, Esther Leeman, Theresa Leimpek, Dan Miodownik, Fabian Morgenthaler, Carl Müller-Crepon, Radhika Nagesh, Simon Neuland, Lirije Palushi, Yannick Pengl, Simon Pressler, Blerina Rexha, Seraina Rüegger, Andi Schädel, Nadja Schloss, Nora Schmidlin, Guy Schvitz, Irina Siminichina, Nanya Sudhir, Edina Szöcsik, Paola Galano Toro, Jessica Trisko Darden, Margot van den Bergh, Francisco Villamil, Manuel Vogt, Lorraine Wong, Toru Yamada

This research has benefited from generous financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grants 100017_156339 & 400240_171175) and an Advanced ERC Grant 787478 NASTAC.