Variable: Ethnic Fractionalization

QoG Code: (fe_etfra)


Dataset: Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country

Description:

Restricting attention to groups that had at least 1 percent of country population in the 1990s, Fearon identifies 822 ethnic and "ethnoreligious'' groups in 160 countries. This variable reflects the probability that two randomly selected people from a given country will belong to different such groups. The variable thus ranges from 0 (perfectly homogeneous) to 1 (highly fragmented). The values are assumed to be constant for all years.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-20
Last updated by source: 2003-06-02


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 154
Standard time-series: 157
OECD cross-section: 36
OECD time-series: 36


This variable has information for these countries:

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