Summary information
Study title
Ethnic heterogeneity and ethnic conflicts 2003-2010
Creator
Vanhanen, Tatu
Study number / PID
FSD2588 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2588 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2588 (DOI)
Data access
Open
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
This database on the measures of ethnic heterogeneity and ethnic conflicts in 176 contemporary countries is connected with Tatu Vanhanen's long-term research project on the causal relationship between ethnic nepotism and the extent of ethnic conflict and violence in the world. The measures are: Ethnic Heterogeneity (EH) that measures to some extent the significance and potential intensity of ethnic nepotism; Scale of Institutionalized Ethnic Interest Conflict (IC) that is used to measure the estimated significance of principally nonviolent ethnic conflicts; and Scale of Ethnic Violence (EV) that is intended to measure the relative significance of violent ethnic confict in a country. The estimated scores are based on incidents during the period 2003-2010, and the database also contains brief references to the nature of conflicts. See background information for detailed information of the measures and used sources.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
2003 - 2010
Country
United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Angola, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbados, Bangladesh, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Burundi, Benin, Brunei, Bolivia, Brazil, Bahamas, Bhutan, Botswana, Belarus, Belize, Canada, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Switzerland, Cote d'Ivoire, Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cape Verde, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Djibouti, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Ecuador, Estonia, Egypt, Eritrea, Spain, Ethiopia, Finland, Fiji, France, Gabon, United Kingdom, Georgia, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Croatia, Haiti, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Comoros, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Montenegro, Madagascar, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mali, Myanmar (Burma), Mongolia, Mauritania, Malta, Mauritius, Maldives, Malawi, Mexico, Malaysia, Mosambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Norway, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Paraguay, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Sweden, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, Serbia, Suriname, Sao Tome and Principe, El Salvador, Syria, Swaziland, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Tajikistan, East Timor, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, Tanzania, Ukraine, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Samoa, Vanuatu, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Time dimension
Time series
Analysis unit
Political-administrative area
Universe
Independent states with at least 200,000 inhabitants in 2005
Sampling procedure
Total universe/Complete enumeration
Kind of data
Quantitative
Data collection mode
Compilation/Synthesis
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2010
Terms of data access
The dataset is (A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0).
Related publications
- Vanhanen, Tatu (2012). Ethnic Conflict and Violence in Heterogeneous Societies. The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 37(1), 38-66.
- Vanhanen, Tatu (2012). Ethnic Conflicts. Their Biological Roots in Ethnic Nepotism. London: Ulster Institute for Social Research.