New spatial data on ethnicity
| Autor: | Carl Müller-Crepon, Philipp Hunziker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Geographic information system Sociology and Political Science business.industry 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Ethnic group 02 engineering and technology 16. Peace & justice 0506 political science Politics Geography ethnic groups geographic information systems settlement patterns Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Political violence Economic geography business Settlement (litigation) Safety Research Spatial analysis |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Peace Research, 55 (5) |
| ISSN: | 1460-3578 0022-3433 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022343318764254 |
| Popis: | Research on ethnic politics and political violence has benefited substantially from the growing availability of cross-national, geo-coded data on ethnic settlement patterns. However, because existing datasets represent ethnic homelands using aggregate polygon features, they lack information on ethnic compositions at the local level. Addressing this gap, this article introduces the Spatially Interpolated Data on Ethnicity (SIDE) dataset, a collection of 253 near-continuous maps of local ethno-linguistic, religious and ethno-religious settlement patterns in 47 low- and middle-income countries. We create these data using spatial interpolation and machine learning methods to generalize the ethnicity-related information in the geo-coded Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). For each DHS survey we provide the ethnic, religious and ethno-religious compositions of cells on a raster that covers the respective countries at a resolution of 30 arc-seconds. The resulting data are optimized for use with geographic information systems (GIS) software. Comparisons of SIDE with existing categorical datasets and district-level census data from Uganda and Senegal are used to assess the data’s accuracy. Finally, we use the new data to study the effects of local polarization between politically relevant ethnic groups, finding a positive effect on the risk of local violence such as riots and protests. However, local ethno-political polarization is not statistically associated with violent events pertaining to larger-scale processes such as civil wars. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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