Geo-referencing of Ethnic Groups in Mekong Region

The “Geo-referencing of ethnic groups” (GREG) dataset employs geographic information systems (GIS) to represent group territories as polygons.

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Field	Value
Dataset topic category	Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
Language	English
Use limitations	When using the GREG data for your research, please cite: Weidmann, Nils B., Jan Ketil Rød, and Lars-Erik Cederman. 2010. "Representing Ethnic Groups in Space: A New Dataset". Journal of Peace Research 47(4): 491–99.
Dataset reference date	March 12, 2020
Temporal extent's start date	January 1, 2010
Temporal extent's end date	January 1, 2010
GeoNames	Cambodia Lao People's Democratic Republic Myanmar Thailand Viet Nam
West bounding coordinates	92.2049789428711
East bounding coordinates	109.464851379395
South bounding coordinates	5.63347053527832
North bounding coordinates	28.5465240478516
Spatial Reference System	WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) (CRS:84)
Process Step	The original dataset was downloaded from the website and clipped for Mekong Region.
Lineage	ETH Zurich (https://icr.ethz.ch/data/epr/#geoepr)
License	No license given
Copyright	Yes
Keywords	indigenous people,Ethnic minorities
Date uploaded	March 12, 2021, 21:26 (UTC)
Date modified	May 15, 2021, 07:52 (UTC)