Variable: Ethnolinguistic fractionalization (1961)

QoG Code: (r_elf61)


Dataset: Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization (ELF) Indices, 1961 and 1985

Description:

Ethnolinguistic fractionalization 1961: Reflects probability that two randomly selected people from a given country will not belong to the same ethnolinguistic group, where the latter is defined without collapsing any sub-groups in the sources. Original source: Roeder (2001).

Type of variable: Continuous


Last updated by source: 2001-02-16


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture History


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Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 98
Standard time-series: 111
OECD time-series: 30