Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)

Journal of Peace Research 59(3): 425–35.

Social scientists in general and conflict researchers in particular increasingly combine multiple datasets to study ethnic politics and conflict in Africa. We facilitate these efforts by systematically linking over 8,100 ethnic categories from 11 databases, including surveys, geographic data, and expert‐coded lists. Exploiting the linguistic tree from the Ethnologue database, we propose a systematic solution to the grouping problem of ethnicity. An analysis of political exclusion, mistrust of state leaders, and ethnic grievances highlights different ways of linking ethnic categories from multiple datasets. The LEDA open‐source software package allows researchers to link ethnic groups from any database with explicit rules and to add their own data on ethnic groups.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211016528

DOI: 10.1177/00223433211016528

Müller-Crepon, Carl, Yannick Pengl, and Nils-Christian Bormann. 2022. “Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA).” Journal of Peace Research 59(3): 425–35.

@article{leda,
   title = {Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)},
   author = {M\"uller-Crepon, Carl and Yannick Pengl and Nils-Christian Bormann},
   journal = {Journal of Peace Research},
   volume = {59},
   number = {3},
   pages = {425-435},
   year = {2022},
   doi = {10.1177/00223433211016528},
   url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211016528},
   eprint = {http://www.carlmueller-crepon.org/publication/leda/MCPB_LEDA.pdf},
   abstract = { Social scientists in general and conflict researchers in particular increasingly combine multiple datasets to study ethnic politics and conflict in Africa. We facilitate these efforts by systematically linking over 8,100 ethnic categories from 11 databases, including surveys, geographic data, and expert-coded lists. Exploiting the linguistic tree from the Ethnologue database, we propose a systematic solution to the grouping problem of ethnicity. An analysis of political exclusion, mistrust of state leaders, and ethnic grievances highlights different ways of linking ethnic categories from multiple datasets. The LEDA open-source software package allows researchers to link ethnic groups from any database with explicit rules and to add their own data on ethnic groups. },
   status = {nastac-pub}
}