This data set contains the data necessary to replicate Table 1 in James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, Ethnicity,Insurgency, and Civil War, _American Political Science Review_ 97, 1 (February 2003):75-90. A few additional variables are included relevant to claims made in the paper. See Fearon and Laitin, Additional Tables for Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War, at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnic/ for more information on the data contained here.
Added Somalia 1981-1991, with 25k deaths, halving the 50k reported by Africa Watch in 1990, cited in Brogan.
Changed Bangladesh 1982-1998 to 1976-1997 based on Brogan, and doubled the dth estimate from 3000 to 6000, which still seems conservative given various sources, though no sharp estimate can be found.
Added Burundi 1988 after reading Lemarchand, although it is borderline a societal violence type case.
Added India 1982 (Khalistan), using 21469 for total deaths, from KPS Gill, Faultlines, vol 1, no. 1.
Added India 1952, guessing 10k for total deaths.
Based on Lintner, changed to one continuous war in Burma, assigned it 60k deaths, although Brogan says 40k, but even 60k is likely to be absurdly conservative.
command to generate war list: list cname year iisswar iissdth if (iisswar > iisswar[_n-1] | (iisswar > 0 & iisswar[_n+1]==0) | (iisswar > 0 & year == 1999))
Exceptions to averaging deaths over conflict years include Rwanda and Nagorno Karabagh.
unclear if 1984- 1000 Siachen refers to internal Chinese fighting or residual border conflict with India.
In general, wars are assigned to the country in which they occured, even if there was a subsequent change. Colonial wars are assigned to the colonial power; Bangladesh 1971 is assigned to Pakistan.
Somalia ethnic data from David Laitin
Somalia religious data from LC
religious data on Comoros from LC
religious data on Armenia obtained from LC by adding Kurds and Azeris
Colombia religious data from LC
data on GDR, USSR, Czechoslovakia and SR Yugoslavia is from EB Book of the Year, 1990
according to EB Tho (.018) are more than the Chinese in Vietnam (.15)
in South Africa I have used EB data to change 1st and 2nd dom. groups to Zulu (.22) and Xhosa (.18)
I have coded Christians as the minority religious and ethnic group in Saudi Arabia
I now think that the relevant minority group for Libya is Berber, which is about .05 in LC
I realize the Kuwaiti data is in flux... what do you want to do? Latest data, maybe? I will do that for the time being
German-speakers in Italy live in South Tyrol, where they comprise about 2/3 of the pop., or about 290,000, Some 5,500 German speakers live in other parts of Italy. They are the largest non-Italian ethnic community in Italy. Sources: Ethnologue, http://cv.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/alemany/an/i4/i4.html#1
A European Union study confirms about 105,000 Turkish speakers in Greece. This works out to be .01 of the population. Source: http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/homean/index1.html.
Catalan speakers are as many as .1875 of Spanish pop. Problem: bilingualism. Source: Euromosaic.
in France taking the North African countries separately every one of them loses out to the share of immigrants from Portugal. But taking them together, they beat Portugal. I think religion is best here because not all are Arabs: substantial number of Turks. Let me know if that doesn't seem right.
I have asked David on Nigeria who quotes Morrison's data: Hausa-Fulani 29%, Yoruba 20%