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Replication Data for: Measuring Ethnic Inequality: An Assessment of Extant Cross-National Indices

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Title Replication Data for: Measuring Ethnic Inequality: An Assessment of Extant Cross-National Indices
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6LJEGI
 
Creator Leipziger, Lasse
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This article offers an evaluation of cross-national measures of ethnic socioeconomic inequality. It demonstrates that the measures differ in important ways regarding empirical scope, conceptualization, measurement and aggregation. Despite significant advances in the measurement of ethnic inequality, all measures have shortcomings, such as limited and biased coverage as well as measurement error from the underlying data sources. Moreover, the empirical convergence between conceptually similar measures is strikingly low; some of the measures show no or even negative covariation. Four replication studies also indicate that extant measures of ethnic inequality are generally not interchangeable. Scholars should therefore take the various features highlighted in this evaluation into account before employing any of them. Based on this conclusion, the article offers multiple suggestions for improving existing measures and developing new ones.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Ethnic inequality
Horizontal inequality
Data set assessment
 
Contributor Leipziger, Lasse