With the increasing relevance of ethnic groups as political actors, the literature has attempted to identify and study the ethnic organizations representing these groups. How do these organizations use digital communication channels to reach their domestic and international audiences? To enable research on these questions, we have developed the Ethnic Organizations Online (EO2) dataset, a new data collection focusing on the online channels that ethnic organizations use. The dataset includes four types of channels: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and regular websites. It relies on the Ethnic Power Relations -- Organizations database, and is therefore compatible with an entire family of datasets on ethnic politics. Featuring more than 2,000 online channels used by 265 groups, it allows researchers to study a wide variety of questions related to digital ethnic mobilization.
This repository contains the dataset, codebook, and further information on working with the dataset. A paper titled "Ethnic Politics via Digital Means: Introducing the Ethnic Organizations Online (EO2) Dataset" is forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research.
Political attitudes and behaviour. Government and political systems. Conflicts, security and peace. Health condition. Socio-economic and demographic issues.
Topics: happiness; comparison of personal life in general with the time a year ago and expectations for the future; assessment of household standard of living compared with other households in the community and expected standard of living in a year; free choice and control over one´s own life; health condition: self-assessment of health condition; health impairments in the last 12 months; average duration of sleep; average duration of falling asleep; general confidence in people; attitudes towards nature and the environment; preferred distribution of public funds among health care, education, telecommunications, more trees, provision of water, roads or electricity and public services; assessment of the country´s overall situation in comparison with the pre-revolutionary period before February, 17th and expectations for the future in one year and ten years; retrospective assessment of the revolution in Libya; political interest; change of political interest in the last twelve months; political participation including the acceptance of violent political actions; importance of tribes for Libya´s political future; political movements (e. g. Muslim brotherhood) that should and should not play a role in the country´s political future; awareness of different persons, organisations and institutions; institutional confidence; preferred future structure of the country; opinion on the distribution of income from oil production within Libya; prerequisites for more hard work of the Libyan population; country that could serve as a model for Libya; countries and organisations that have the most influence or should not have any influence at all on the future of Libya (ranking order); opinion on the separation of politics and religion in a new Libyan government; ranking of the countries with the greatest contribution to the deprivation of power of the old regime, and country that was least helpful; opinion on the role of Germany during the revolution in Libya; change of personal opinion on Germany compared to the time before the Libyan Revolution; current needs for Libya and within the next twelve months and five years (strong Libyan leader, a group of strong Libyan leaders, National Transitional Council, government of religious leaders or Libyan military leaders, Western-style or Libyan-style democracy, Libyan government of experts or managers); political tasks that should have priority and should not have priority (e. g. combating crime, obtaining jobs, rebuilding of infrastructure, etc.); opinion on how to deal with supporters and actual members of the former regime; participation of citizens in the country´s development versus leaders´ choice; leeway for ordinary citizens to influence political decisions at local and national level; most appropriate sources of policy information; sympathy scale for selected countries (Germany, UK, USA, Russia, France and Iran).
Demography: sex; age; marital status; household size; education of the respondent; current employment status; current or last profession; employment sector; mother tongue; language spoken at home; other language (s); net household income; household equipment (e. g. air conditioning, bicycle, car, iron, agricultural machinery and farm animals, refrigerator, motorcycle, telephone etc.); nationality; ethnic background; religion.
Additionally coded was: questionnaire ID; interviewer´s estimated age of respondent; administrative district; urban/rural residential area; interview date (day, month, year); interview day; interview accompanied by a supervisor; number of recalls; interview retrospectively reviewed and method; interview start and end; interview length; type of residence; respondent´s behaviour during the interview; age groups; income groups; weighting factors.
