Variable: Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization

QoG Code: (hief_efindex)


Dataset: Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization

Description:

Based on the annual percentage of ethnic groups in each country The Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization (hereafter, HIEF) calculates the degree of ethnic fractionalization (EF) using the most universally applied formula in the empirical literature, which is a decreasing transformation of the Herfindahl concentration index.

Where EFc is the level of ethnic fractionalization in country c, i indexes ethnic groups and Si is the proportion of the population in unit c belonging to ethnic group i (i = 1, …, n).

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-11-23
Last updated by source: 2019-07-24


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture


Find this variable in:

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

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 168
OECD time-series: 36


This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2013