Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization data

This is a data set with state-year estimates for ethnic fractionalization.

Usage

hief

Format

A data frame with 8808 observations on the following 5 variables.

ccode

a Correlates of War state code

gwcode

a Gleditsch-Ward state code

year

the year

efindex

a numeric vector for the estimate of ethnic fractionalization

Details

The data-raw directory on the project's Github contains more information about how these data were created.

References

Drazanova, Lenka. 2020. "Introducing the Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization (HIEF) Dataset: Accounting for Longitudinal Changes in Ethnic Diversity." Journal of Open Humanities Data 6:6 doi: 10.5334/johd.16