Five connected policy cards showing legislative seats, voting rules, territorial representation, candidate-list requirements, and majority-minority districts.

EQUAL-REP: Ethnic Quotas And Legislative Representation Policies

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Codebook

The EQUAL-REP codebook explains the dataset structure, variable definitions, country and territory coverage, temporal scope, policy categories, coding rules, and source documentation. It also describes the differences between the country-policy and country-year formats so users can choose the file structure that best fits their research needs.

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Data Files

The EQUAL-REP dataset is available in country-policy and country-year formats to support different users and workflows.

Download Country-Policy Data
CSV
| Excel | Stata | R

Download Country-Year Data
CSV | Excel | Stata | R

Country-Policy Data: The country-policy format includes one row for each policy adoption, implementation, revision, or other major policy change. It includes only countries and territories with relevant ethnic representation policies.

Country-Year Data: The country-year format is a long-form dataset with one row for each country-year. It is designed for longitudinal analysis and for easy merging with other comparative datasets.

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How to Cite

Hughes, Melanie M., Elin Bjarnegård, and Jackie F. Steele. 2026. EQUAL-REP: Ethnic Quotas And Legislative Representation Policies, Version I.0. August 15. http://www.equal-rep.org.

For published work, please include the dataset version, release date, and URL where the data were accessed.