Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict: The Ethnic Power Relations Data Set Family

Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(7): 1327–42.

This article introduces the new Family of Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data sets, version 2014, which is the latest in a series of data sets on ethnicity that have stimulated civil war research in the past decade. The EPR 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 new 2014 version does not only extend the data set’s temporal coverage from 2009 to 2013, but it also offers several new features, such as a new measure of regional autonomy that is independent of national‐level executive power and a new data set component coding intraethnic identities and cleavages. Moreover, for the first time, detailed documentation of the EPR data is provided through the EPR Atlas. This article presents these novelties in detail and compares the EPR Family 2014 to the most relevant alternative data sets on ethnicity.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002715591215

PDF: http://www.icr.ethz.ch/publications/vogt2015integrating.pdf

DOI: 10.1177/0022002715591215

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.

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   author = {Vogt, Manuel and Bormann, Nils-Christian and R{\"{u}}egger, Seraina and Cederman, Lars-Erik and Hunziker, Philipp and Girardin, Luc},
   journal = {Journal of Conflict Resolution},
   title = {Integrating Data on Ethnicity, Geography, and Conflict: The Ethnic Power Relations Data Set Family},
   year = {2015},
   volume = {59},
   number = {7},
   pages = {1327--1342},
   abstract = {This article introduces the new Family of Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) data sets, version 2014, which is the latest in a series of data sets on ethnicity that have stimulated civil war research in the past decade. The EPR 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 new 2014 version does not only extend the data set's temporal coverage from 2009 to 2013, but it also offers several new features, such as a new measure of regional autonomy that is independent of national-level executive power and a new data set component coding intraethnic identities and cleavages. Moreover, for the first time, detailed documentation of the EPR data is provided through the EPR Atlas. This article presents these novelties in detail and compares the EPR Family 2014 to the most relevant alternative data sets on ethnicity.},
   doi = {10.1177/0022002715591215},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022002715591215},
   pdf = {http://www.icr.ethz.ch/publications/vogt2015integrating.pdf},
   keywords = {civil wars, conflict, internal armed conflict, power, ethnicity, data}
}