Ethnicity of Refugees

Ethnicity of Refugees 2015 Dataset

Team

Seraina Rüegger (ETHZ)

List of coders

Description

The Ethnicity of Refugees (ER) dataset records the ethnic composition of refugee stocks worldwide for the years 1975 to 2009. 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 (2015, released on November 16, 2015) of the raw ER dataset directly:

Citation

When using this dataset in your research, please include the following reference:

Rüegger, Seraina, and Heidrun Bohnet. 2015. "The Ethnicity of Refugees (ER): A New Dataset for Understanding Flight Patterns." Conflict Management and Peace Science Forthcoming.

Replication files for CMPS article