Data and code: The "Demo-conomics" in African Youth Politics - Youth Bulge and Youth Unemployment Meet Youth Political Attitudes and Participation

Data and code that form the basis of the analyses and findings presented in the accompanying publication “The ‘Demo-conomics’ in African Youth Politics: Youth Bulge and Unemployment Meet Youth Political Attitudes and Participation” by Godfred Bonnah-Nkansah. The dataset comprises individual-level youth data (for persons 15-29 years old), in thirty-nine (39) African countries sampled in the Afrobarometer survey Rounds 2–8, complemented by country-level data on government effectiveness, youth unemployment rate, and GDP per Capita from the World Bank; youth bulge ratio from the United Nations (UN) Population Bureau; and the V-Dem liberal democracy index.

The research activity is part of the Megatrends Afrika project which focuses on three research areas of “Violent Actors and the Transformation of Conflict”, “Megatrends between Democratization and Autocratization” and “Global Power Shifts and Multipolarity” to analyse how global megatrends shape African states and societies. The aim of the project is to provide political decision-makers with evidence-based policy advice and to contribute to a more differentiated public debate on Africa policy. Megatrends Afrika is a joint project of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Federal Ministry of Defence.

Files and formats:

[Dataset_10.5281zenodo14237487.dta]: Dataset (.csv) 

[Dataset_10.5281zenodo14237487.csv]:  Dataset (.dta)

[Do-file_10.5281zenodo14237487.txt]: Do file containing the replication code (.txt)

[Do-file_10.5281zenodo14237487.dta]: Do file containing the replication code (.dta)

Additional material:

[Appendix-to-WorkingPaper_10.5281zenodo14237487]: Appendix to the publication mentioned above including explanations to the dataset (e.g. list of countries and variables) and results of robustness checks (PDF/A)

Related Working Paper: The “Demo-conomics” in African Youth Politics. Youth Bulge and Unemployment Meet Political Attitude and Participation - Megatrends Afrika (megatrends-afrika.de)