Abstract: Whether qualitative or quantitative, contemporary civil-war studies have a tendency to over-aggregate empirical evidence. In order to open the black box of the state, it is necessary to pinpoint the location of key conflict parties. As a contribution to this task, this data project geo-references ethnic groups around the world. Relying on maps and data drawn from the classical Soviet Atlas Narodov Mira, the “Geo-referencing of ethnic groups” (GREG) dataset employs geographic information systems (GIS) to represent group territories as polygons. The GREG dataset consists of 8969 polygons and is provided in ESRI shapefile format.

Type: Vector Data

Keywords: claim, dirtbike, claims,, markers

Category: Society & Demographics

Citation: copyright

Owner: cryang1018

Point of Contact: cryang1018

Metadata Author: cryang1018

Attributes: Group ID, Country FIPS, Short Name of the Group,

Supplemental Information: Citation When using the GREG data for your research, please cite Weidmann, Nils B., Jan Ketil Rød and Lars-Erik Cederman (2010). "Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset". Journal of Peace Research, in press. Contact Nils B. Weidmann (http://nils.weidmann.ws/), Princeton University Jan Ketil Rød (http://www.svt.ntnu.no/geo/jan.rod/default_e.asp), NTNU Trondheim Lars-Erik Cederman (http://www.icr.ethz.ch/people/cederman), ETH Zurich

Bounding Box: SRID=EPSG:4326;POLYGON((-179.999983336919 -55.3119506835938,-179.999983336919 82.2124938964838,179.999983336919 82.2124938964838,179.999983336919 -55.3119506835938,-179.999983336919 -55.3119506835938))

Native SRS: EPSG:4326

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