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Refugee Resettlement Data 1975-2018

The data include about 3 million refugees that arrived between 1975 and 2018 in the United States. We provide the data in two different formats. 1) Digitised individual refugee data (1975-2008) obtained from publicly held records as originally recorded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. 2) A geo-coded version that covers the 1975-2018 period which can be linked to the first version.

Data website: www.refugeeresettlementdata.com/

Broadband Internet Data for Indian Villages (BharatNet)

The Indian government aims to connect every Gram Panchayat (village council) to fiber-optic internet in several phases. The raw location information of these villages was extensively checked through webscraping village directories and comparisons to Open Street Maps. The dataset contains 175,157 locations, information in which phase they were connected and is easily linkable to a large set of data sources via SHRUG.

Data download: here

When using the data, please cite:

Matzat J. 2022. Fueling Divisions? The Arrival of Fast Internet to Indian Villages

Local Political Polarization on Twitter (2016-2020)

We collected profile locations from millions of US-Twitter accounts via the Twitter API . We geocoded the locations and connected them with ideology scores provided by Pablo Barberá. Coming soon.

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