The following sources were consulted in determining the set of countries and groups to be included in the original study for which the CLIPR scales were developed:
Gurr, Ted Robert. 1993. Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press.
Minorities at Risk Project. University of Maryland, College Park, MD: Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/mar/. [Accessed 1999–2000. Currently located at http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/.]
Paxton, John, ed. 1989. The Statesman’s Year-book. 126th ed., 1989–90. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
U.S. Census Bureau. 1999. International Database (IDB). At http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html, idbacc.html and idbsprd.html.
and the following source was consulted as necessary to determine the language of a particular group if not found in the MAR dataset notes:
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). 1999. Ethnologue. At http://www.sil.org. [Accessed 1999–2000. Currently located at http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp.]