12.9 Lab: Data
The data is Nunn_Wantchekon_AER_2011.dta
. You can download it on Nathanial Nunn’s website. It contains many variables but we’ll only speak about a few in the lab session.
Data and files available under the link given in Section 1.3.
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: Respondent number in Afrobarometer datasetmurdock_name
: Ethnicity name: from Murdockexports
: (Atlantic+Indian Exports)ln_exports
: ln(1+Atlantic+Indian Exports)trust_relatives
: Trust of relatives: q84atrust_neighbors
: Trust of neighbors: q84bintra_group_trust
: Intra-group trust: q84dinter_group_trust
: Inter-group trust: q84ctrust_local_council
: Trust of local government council: q55ddistsea
: Historic distance from coast 1000s kmsethnicity
: Ethnicity name: from Afrobarometer q79isocode
: Country 3 digit iso coderegion
: Region: from Afrobarometerdistrict
: District: from Afrobarometertownvill
: Town/village: from Afrobarometerlocation_id
: Unique location-of-repondent identifier - based on isocode region district townvln_export_area
: Log [(total slave exports: Atlantic + Indian) / area (km^2)export_area
: (total slave exports: Atlantic + Indian) / area (km^2)export_pop
: Exports divided by historic Murdock populationln_export_pop
: Ln (1+exports/Murdock historic population)age
: Age: q1age2
: Age squaredmale
: Indicator for respondent being male: q101urban_dum
: Indicator for respondent living in urban areaoccupation
: Occupation categories: q95religion
: Religion categories: q91living_conditions
: Living condition categories:q4beducation
: Education categories: Afrobarometer q90near_dist
: Current distance from coast 1000s kmsloc_murdock_name
: Murdock identifier for the current location of the respondentloc_ln_export_area
: Slave exports measure based on current location of respondentlocal_council_performance
: Perceived performance of local council: q68ccouncil_listen
: Does the local council listen: q62bcorrupt_local_council
: How much corruption in local council: q56cschool_present
: Is there a school in the PSU: q116belectricity_present
: Is there electricity in the PSU: q116dpiped_water_present
: Is there piped water in the PSU: q116esewage_present
: Is there sewage in the PSU: q116fhealth_clinic_presesnt
: Is there a health clinic in the PSU: q116gdistrict_ethnic_frac
: District-level ethnic fractionalizationfrac_ethnicity_in_district
: Proportion of ethnic group in districttownvill_nonethnic_mean_exports
: Avg slave exports of other ethnicities within town/villagedistrict_nonethnic_mean_exports
: Avg slave exports of other ethnicities within districtregion_nonethnic_mean_exports
: Avg slave exports of other ethnicities within regioncountry_nonethnic_mean_exports
: Avg slave exports of other ethnicities within countrymurdock_centr_dist_coast
: Historic distance of ethnicity’s centroid from the coast (in kms)centroid_lat
: Historic latitude of centroid of ethnic groupcentroid_long
: Historic longitude of centroid of ethnic groupexplorer_contact
: Indicator for historic contact with European explorerrailway_contact
: Indicator variable for historic integration into the colonial railway networkdist_Saharan_node
: Historic distance of ethnicity’s centroid from a centroid (town) in Saharan traddist_Saharan_line
: Historic distance of ethnicity’s centroid from a line (route) in Saharan trade (malaria_ecology
: Ethnic groups average malaria ecology measurev30
: Pre-colonial settlement patterns of ethnicity: from Ethngraphic Atlas v30v33
: Pre-colonial juris. hierarchy beyond the local community: Ethnographic Atlas v33fishing
: Pre-colonial reliance on fishing: Ethnographic Atlastotal_missions_area
: Total Catholic + Protestant mission per land arealn_init_pop_density
: Log population density during the colonial period - from Murdockcities_1400_dum
: Indicator for existence of city among ethnic group in 1400