Assessment of within-country religious and linguistic diversity (Dow)
Measures of within-country diversity (religion and language)
Data on the measures of within-country religious and linguistic diversity for 120 countries. The dataset is a tibble containing 120 observations across 3 variables:
country_code: character string indicating the country (ISO3 code).
religious_diversity: Numeric. As reported in the article “The Effects of Within-Country Linguistic and Religious Diversity on Foreign Acquisitions” (JIBS, April 2016, v47-3: 319-346) two measures of within-country diversity were created using essentially the same data as was used to create the linguistic distance and religious distance scales (see documentation on psychic distance stimuli). For linguistic diversity, the indices are constructed such that a value of 1 represents the situation where no two individuals within the country speak the same language. Conversely a value of 0 represents the situation where every individual within the country speaks the same language. (source)
language_diversity: Numeric. As reported in the article “The Effects of Within-Country Linguistic and Religious Diversity on Foreign Acquisitions” (JIBS, April 2016, v47-3: 319-346) two measures of within-country diversity were created using essentially the same data as was used to create the linguistic distance and religious distance scales (see documentation on psychic distance stimuli). For religious diversity, the indices are constructed such that a value of 1 represents the situation where no two individuals within the country adhere to the same religion. Conversely a value of 0 represents the situation where every individual within the country adheres to the same religion.