Data

Qualitative | Quantitative | Citing MAR

Qualitative

Minority Group Assessments

The minority group assessments consist of two parts: a risk assessment and an analytic summary. The risk assessment summarizes whether the group is at risk of rebellion, protest, or repression, based on levels of a number of other variables. The analytic summary gives a brief history of the group and its relations with the state. The group's values on key variables from the dataset are embedded within both components.

Minority Group Chronologies

Group chronologies detail important events in the history of the group and of the state in which they reside. Information for chronologies is culled from a variety of sources, including journalistic accounts, government reports, group organizations, and scholarly materials.

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Quantitative

MAR Data (available through MARGene and as an ASCII Text File)

The latest addition to the MAR dataset was released in February 2005 for the years 2001-2003.

MARGene

The Minorities At Risk Data Generation and Management Program (MARGene) is designed to allow easy access to data in the Minorities at Risk dataset developed by Ted Gurr and associates (Gurr et al. 1993; Gurr 2000). MARGene makes it easy for scholars to access variables from this dataset, creating subsets of the data, interpolating across unobserved data points, and setting up the data for merging with other state-level datasets. Running in a standard Microsoft Windows environment, the program allows users to select variables from the Minorities at Risk dataset, specify subsets of the data based on time and space, and specify various options concerning data creation (such as whether to interpolate missing data or not). The program then creates a new, customized dataset that can be loaded into statistical analysis software such as Stata, SPSS, or Limdep, for further manipulation and/or analysis.

MAR Data as ASCII Text File

For users who do not have access to Windows (Mac or Unix users, etc.), you may also download the entire dataset as an ASCII file (comma separated variables). However, users may find the full dataset to be unwieldy and difficult to manipulate. We therefore encourage all users to download data through MARGene (which also produces output in ASCII format).

Please Note: a simple and free registration will be requested for both MARGene and MAR data as an ASCII text file. To register, click on the MAR Data link above.

MAR Codebook and Documentation

The MAR codebook contains detailed information on each of the variables included in the MAR dataset. Coding conventions and examples are also provided. The codebook also explains the changes made between different phases of the project and covers the project's general history and development. (117 pages; 1.3MB)

Discrimination Dataset

The discrimination dataset records overall levels of political and economic discrimination for all groups in the Minorities at Risk Project for the period 1950-2003. The variable coding is described in the MAR codebook, also available on this page. (No separate codebook is available.)

The discrimination dataset was used to produce the analysis in Asal and Pate, "The Decline of Ethnic Political Discrimination 1950-2003" in Peace and Conflict 2005, published by the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, College Park. It is offered here in two versions: the first lists discrimination codes annually by minority group. The second lists codes annually by country. Each version is offered in two formats: SPSS and MS Excel.

By minority group: DISg2003.sav | DISgroup2003.xls

By country: DISs2003.sav | DISstate2003.xls

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Citing MAR

For either the qualitative or quantitative MAR data, MAR can be cited as follows:

Minorities at Risk Project (2005) College Park, MD: Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Retrieved from http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/ on: [date here]

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