Ethnicity of Refugees

Ethnicity of Refugees 2021 Dataset

The Ethnicity of Refugees (ER) dataset records the ethnic composition of refugee stocks worldwide for the years 1975 to 2021. The dataset covers all refugee groups in neighboring countries and countries in proximity to each other that consist of at least 2’000 refugees. Up to the three largest ethnic groups of each country-dyadic refugee population are identified and their share of the total refugee stock indicated.

Information on countries of asylum and countries of origin as well as refugee stocks is based on data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, 2014) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA, 2010).

Data

You may download the latest version (2021, released on June 8, 2021) of the raw ER dataset directly:

CSV format, UTF-8 encoded: ER-2021.csv
Tab-delimited format, UTF-8 encoded: ER-2021.txt
JSON format: ER-2021.json
Excel format: ER-2021.xls
Excel 2007 OOXML format: ER-2021.xlsx
SQL: ER-2021.sql
Codebook: EPR_2021_Codebook_ER.pdf

Citation

When using this dataset 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.

Replication files for CMPS article

Data in Stata format: Data_RefugeeFlightDirection.dta
Stata Do file: Replication_RefugeeFlightDirection.do