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HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRICITY ACCESS (HREA) 2012–Present Computational estimates of electricity access, power supply reliability, and energy usage at the settlement-level across the developing world. Website: hrea.isr.umich.edu Data Feature: Achieving Universal Electricity Access from Space (UNDP Data Futures)
NIGHTLIGHTS.IO Twenty Years of India at Night
	Satellite-based light output of all Indian villages, 1993–2013. In collaboration with the World Bank, NOAA, and DevSeed. Website: india.nightlights.io Data: api.nightlights.io
Brian Min, Kwawu Mensan Gaba, Ousmane Fall Sarr, Alassane Agalassou. "Detection of Rural Electrification in Africa using DMSP-OLS Night Lights Imagery." International Journal of Remote Sensing 34(22):8118—8141. 2013. Download Brian Min, Kwawu Mensan Gaba, "Tracking Electrification in Vietnam using Nighttime Lights." Remote Sensing 6(10):9511—9529. 2014. Download Brian Min. Power and the Vote: Elections and Electricity in the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015. ETHNIC POWER RELATIONS Access to State Power of Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups, 1946–2005 The Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups and their access to state power in every country of the world from 1946 to 2005. It includes annual data on 733 groups and codes the degree to which their representatives hold executive-level state power — from total control of the government to overt political discrimination. Download from EPR Dataverse. Lars-Erik Cederman, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. "Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis." World Politics 62(1). 2010. Forthcoming. Download Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Brian Min. "Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis." American Sociological Review 74(2):316—337. April 2009 Download ETHNIC ARMED CONFLICTS Minor and Major Ethnic Armed Conflicts, 1946–2005 A recoding of the PRIO/Uppsala Armed Conflicts Dataset to identify ethnic and secessionist conflicts. Compatible with the EPR dataset. Download from EPR Dataverse. Lars-Erik Cederman, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. "Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and Analysis." World Politics 62(1). 2010. Download Andreas Wimmer, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Brian Min. "Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis." American Sociological Review 74(2) 316—337. April 2009. Download FROM EMPIRE TO NATION-STATE Territorial Data, 1816–2001 Takes fixed geographical territories instead of countries as units of analysis, enabling the tracing of a territory's political and economic development before and after independence from 1816 to 2001. Stata | Excel | Codebook | Variable list Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min. "From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining War in the Modern World, 1816–2001." American Sociological Review. 71(6):867—897, 2006. Download WARS BY LOCATION AND PURPOSE 1816–2001 We identify the location and purpose of all 464 major wars since 1816, expanding substantially on previous efforts by including wars fought in all polities, including pre-independent kingdoms and empires. The data complements standard war datasets that characterize wars only by the state participants that fight them. Excel Andreas Wimmer and Brian Min. "The Location and Purpose of Wars Around the World, 1816–2001." International Interactions 35(4). 2009. Download