Replication data for: The Measurement of Cross-cutting Cleavages and Other Multidimensional Cleavage Structures

Many studies in economics and political science include the concept of ethnic diversity as a key independent variable in empirical studies. To date, however, only single-dimensional measures of ethnic diversity, such as ethnic fractionalization, have been available. In this paper, I define and measure three multi-dimensional characteristics of social structure—cross-cuttingness, cross-fractionalization and sub-group fractionalization—and present a new cross-national dataset comprised of indices along combinations of five cleavages: race, language, religion, region and income. After addressing important definitional and measurement issues, I discuss the data and show how their inclusion in economic growth regressions re-opens the theoretical debate regarding the influence of ethnic diversity, indicating the potential for these new indices to shed light on the role of ethnic diversity (and social structure more generally) with regards to a number of phenomena of concern to political scientists.