Data

This dataset links newly coded information on presidential ethnic identity to respondents’ self-reported ethnicity in Afrobarometer Rounds 3–9 across 22 sub-Saharan African countries. It identifies the president or sitting head of state at the time of each interview and maps both officeholders’ ethnic identities and country- and round-specific survey labels to the politically relevant ethnic categories used by the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) dataset.

The resulting measure of presidential co-ethnic category membership records whether a respondent belongs to the same EPR-broadened ethnic category as the officeholder. The coding documentation records source information, crosswalk decisions, and uncertain classifications, supporting research on ethnic identity, access to executive power, and political attitudes.