Integrating Data on Ethnicity , Geography , and Conflict : The Ethnic Power Relations Dataset Family 1

This paper introduces the new Family of Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Datasets, version 2014, which is the latest in a series of datasets 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, trans-border ethnic kin relations, and intraethnic cleavages. The new 2014 version does not only extend the dataset’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 dataset component coding intra-ethnic identities and cleavages. Moreover, for the first time, detailed documentation of the EPR data is provided through the EPR Atlas. The paper presents these novelties in detail and compares the EPR Family 2014 to the most relevant alternative datasets on ethnicity.

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