First published in: Krain, Matthew (1997). "State-Sponsored Mass Murder: The Onset and Severity of Genocides and Politicides. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 41,3:331-360.
DATA FILES
A README FILE accompanies the ethnic fractionalization data used in
the above article. A data file is included in ETHFRAC.ZIP,
enclosed. Each are in EXCEL format.
VARIABLE NAMES
Below are the variable names used in the data set, along with a BRIEF
description of the variable. Also listed, whenever necessary, is the
source of the data. More detail can be found in the accompanying paper.
VARIABLES:
CCODE - Country Code - SOURCE: Singer and Small (1994)
CNTRYEAR - [CCODE * 10000] + YEAR
COUNTRY - Country Name - SOURCE: Singer and Small (1994)
ETHKRAIN - New Ethnic Fractionalization Score - SOURCE: Krain (1997)
ETHTAYLR - Old Ethnic Fractionalization Score - SOURCE: Taylor and Hudson
(1972)
YEAR - Year
MEASUREMENT OF ETHNIC FRACTIONALIZATION VARIABLE
Taylor and Hudson (1972) have only one value per country for what is
really an ethno-linguistic fractionalization variable, coded as that
value for all the years for that country when used. For example, if
Switzerland's value was 0.55 in the year in which Taylor and Hudson coded
it, then that value would be Switzerland's value throughout the data set.
Krain (1997) improved the accuracy of this variable slightly by recoding
the variable as strictly an ethnic fractionalization variable (see paper
for details) and by coding it at four years in the study, each separated
by a decade: 1948, 1958, 1968, 1978.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Krain, Matthew (1997). State-Sponsored Mass Murder: The Onset and
Severity of Genocides and Politicides. Journal of Conflict
Resolution. 43:331-360.
Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. 1994. Correlates of War Project: International and Civil War Data, 1815-1992. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Taylor, Charles L. and Michael C. Hudson. 1972. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, Second Edition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
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