Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)

Social scientists in general and conflict researchers in particular increasingly combine multiple datasets to study ethnic politics and conflict in Africa. We facilitate these efforts by systematically linking over 8,100 ethnic categories from 11 databases, including surveys, geographic data, and ex...

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Published inJournal of peace research Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 425 - 435
Main Authors Müller-Crepon, Carl, Pengl, Yannick, Bormann, Nils-Christian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2022
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Ethnic conflict
Ethnic groups
Ethnicity
Minority & ethnic groups
Social scientists
Software
Africa
data
ethnicity
Africa
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Summary:Social scientists in general and conflict researchers in particular increasingly combine multiple datasets to study ethnic politics and conflict in Africa. We facilitate these efforts by systematically linking over 8,100 ethnic categories from 11 databases, including surveys, geographic data, and expert-coded lists. Exploiting the linguistic tree from the Ethnologue database, we propose a systematic solution to the grouping problem of ethnicity. An analysis of political exclusion, mistrust of state leaders, and ethnic grievances highlights different ways of linking ethnic categories from multiple datasets. The LEDA open-source software package allows researchers to link ethnic groups from any database with explicit rules and to add their own data on ethnic groups.
ISSN:0022-3433
1460-3578
DOI:10.1177/00223433211016528