Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution - Graphic Data

Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution attempts to explain if individual's preferences for redistribution change if the ethnic diversity increases in a municipality. In this case, selected parts of the Swedish Election Studies has been matched with municipal data for the time period between 1985 and 1994, when Sweden had an active placement program of refugees. This meant that the refugees themselves were not allowed to decide where to settle, but instead they were places in municipalities which had contracts with the Swedish Integration Board (Invandrarverket). Originally the idea of the program was to direct the refugees to municipalities with good labor market conditions, but since the number of refugees arriving to Sweden were larger than expected, so in practice more or less all municipalities were a part of the program. With the placement program refugees spread more across the country, than before the program. Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution focus primarily on refugees from nations which not were members in the OECD 1994 and Turkey.

The data comes from the Swedish Election Studies survey waves for the elections in 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991 and 1994. Primarily it consists of various background variables and variables about individual's preferences for private health care, nuclear power and social benefits. The municipal data primarily consist of various socio-economic and political variables, such as population, tax base, welfare spending and share of refugees. Some of these variables are the average of the term (1986-1988, 1989-1991, and 1992-1994).

Purpose:

Investigate the causal link between the ethnic diversity in a society and its inhabitants´ preferences for redistribution.

《族群多样性与再分配偏好（Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution）》旨在阐释：当某一市政辖区的族群多样性提升时，个体的再分配偏好是否会发生变化。本研究选取1985年至1994年的部分瑞典选举研究（Swedish Election Studies）数据，与同期市政层面数据进行匹配。1985至1994年，瑞典推行了活跃的难民安置计划：该计划规定难民无权自行选择定居地点，而是由官方安置至与瑞典融合局（Swedish Integration Board，Invandrarverket）签订合作协议的市政辖区。该计划最初的设计初衷是将难民引导至劳动力市场状况良好的市政辖区，但由于抵达瑞典的难民数量远超预期，实际上几乎所有市政辖区都参与了该安置计划。相较于计划实施前，通过该安置计划，难民的分布范围扩展至瑞典全国更多区域。本数据集主要聚焦于1994年经济合作与发展组织（OECD）非成员国及土耳其的难民。

本数据集的数据源自1982、1985、1988、1991及1994年瑞典选举研究的多轮调查。其核心变量涵盖各类人口背景变量，以及个体关于私人医疗服务、核电与社会福利补贴的偏好类变量。市政层面数据则主要包含各类社会经济与政治变量，例如辖区人口规模、税基、福利支出及难民占比。其中部分变量为对应任期（1986-1988年、1989-1991年及1992-1994年）的平均值。

研究目的：探究一个社会的族群多样性与其居民的再分配偏好之间的因果关联。