Hi everyone!
I would like to select countries for a cross-cultural study (it's my PhD project) based on the level of ethnolinguistic/cultural fractionalization/polarization, but cannot find a good index for that. Alesina's (2003) index is commonly used, but it is based on data from very different time points. Fearon's (2003) index looks a bit better, but the data that is used there is from the beginning of 90's. I wasn't able to find any index that would be based on newer data and would cover not only Europe, but also the rest of the world. Did anyone come across something like that?
Non-academic rankings might be useful:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001852/185202E.pdf
http://images.forbes.com/forbesinsights/StudyPDFs/global_diversity_rankings_2012.pdf
I think you could find this one interesting:
http://pan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/01/04/pan.mpq036.abstract
It could be interesting
http://libguides.princeton.edu/politics/conflict
Hi Arnald! No, actually, I didn't find anything and switched to a subjective index of acceptance of diversity instead of the amount of diversity itself. Please let me know if you find anything, would be good to know.
Hi Lusine,
I am not sure it is still relevant for you, but I have published an ethnic fractionalization index that covers 162 countries annually for the time period 1945-2013. You can fin it on Harvard Dataverse here: Data Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization (HIEF) Dataset
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