GeoEPR 2014

GeoEPR - Geo-referencing Ethnic Power Relations

Team

Nils-Christian Bormann (ETHZ)
Lars-Erik Cederman (ETHZ)
Luc Girardin (ETHZ)
Julian Wucherpfennig (ETHZ)

Description

The GeoEPR 2014 dataset geo-codes all politically relevant ethnic groups from the EPR-Core 2014 dataset. GeoEPR assignes every politically relevant group one of six settlement patterns and, if possible, provides polygons describing their location on a digital map.

Data

Descriptive (non-spatial) information on ethnic group's settlement patterns from the GeoEPR 2014 dataset 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 (2014 Update 2, released on March 16, 2015) of the complete GeoEPR dataset directly:

Shapefile format (Zip archive): GeoEPR-2014.zip
CSV format with WKT geometries, UTF-8 charset: GeoEPR-2014.csv
Excel 2007 OOXML format with WKT geometries: GeoEPR-2014.xlsx
Codebook: GeoEPR-2014_Codebook.pdf

The GeoEPR polygons follow the WGS84 coordinate system (SRID 4326).

Citation

When using this dataset 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 Dataset Family." Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(7):1327-1342.

When referring to the original GeoEPR 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.

Previous versions

Please note that version 3.0 of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR3) dataset is not compatible with the EPR Dataset Family 2014.

GeoEPR-ETH Version 2.0: The GeoEPR-ETH Version 2.0 dataset is based on EPR-ETH Version 2.0 and codes the settlement patterns of politically relevant ethnic groups in independent states.
Geo-referencing Ethnic Power Relations (GeoEPR) v.1.0: The first version of the GeoEPR dataset was developed with colleagues at UCLA and geo-references all politically relevant ethnic groups in the EPR dataset Version 1.1.