Migration and Ethnoreligious Hate Crime (NSF): Products
1. Ethnoreligious Hate Crime in the Russian Federation, 2003-2005
- Hate events
(murder, assassination, assault, bombings, hostage-taking/kidnapping, arsons, pogroms, harassment, menacing, criminal mischief [e.g., cemetery desecration, vandalism], etc.)
- Categorized by ethnicity and religious affiliation of perpetrators and victims,
- Broken down by province
(according to the 1989 administrative-territorial division of the Russian Federation and excluding the regions in the proximity to the wars in the North Caucasus: Chechnya, Dagestan, North Ossetia, and Ingushetia).
The intensity of hate incidents is controlled by applying the methodology developed by the Global Events Data Systems (University of Maryland) for intrastate conflicts.
NSF_ETHNOVIOLENCE_REGIONS_2003-2005.XLS
Data compiled by city where such incidents are recorded is maintained by the SOVA Center in Moscow. The following dataset has been provided to the author by SOVA Center in July 2007 and contains the data from 2004 through May 2007.
SOVASTAT_HATECRIME_City_2004-2007-05.xls
2. Ethnic composition and population of the Russian Federation by province and city/county, 1989-2002
Data Files in Excel and Russian:
- RUS_2002Census_natssostav_00.xls
- RUS_1994MicroCensus_NatsSostav.xls
- RUS_1989Census_Natssostav.xls
- RUS_1989Census_Natssostav_RAION.xls
- RUS_2002Census_Nats_RAION_Selection_1.xls
- RUS_2002Census_Nats_RAION_Selection_2.xls
- RUS_2002Census_Nats_RAION_Selection_3.xls
- RUS_2002Census_Nats_RAION_Selection_4.xls
- RUS_2002Census_Nats_RAION_Selection_5.xls
- RUS_goroda_rayony_2004.xls
3. Ethnic composition, socioeconomic indicators and hate crime rates (2002-2006) in a sample of Russian cities, towns and counties
- NSF_NASPUNKT_BASELINE_2002-2006.xls (data)
- WEB_CITY_COUNTY DATASET 2002-2006. doc (description of the sample selection methodology)
4. Migration in the Russian Federation, 1992-2004: migration levels and migration level change, with breakdown by country of origin for 89 constituent units (regions and republics) of the Russian Federation, based on Russian State Committee for Statistics annuals.
RUS_RegionsMigration1999_2001_2004.xls
5. Public Opinion Survey: “Migration and Ethnic Relations in the Russian Federation 2005”
Number of respondents: 4,740
Samples:
- Conducted by the Levada Analytical Center (Moscow): September-October 2005
- Russian Federation, national sample = 680 respondents
- Moscow City = 400 respondents
- Moscow Oblast = 400 respondents
- Krasnodar Krai and Adygea = 650 respondents
- Volgograd Oblast = 650 respondents
- Orenburg Oblast = 650 respondents
- Republic of Tatarstan = 650 respondents
- Conducted by the Public Opinion Research Laboratory, Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch (Vladivostok): November 2005
- Primorskii krai = 660 respondents
Bibliographic reference (use when citing the findings):
Mikhail Alexseev, “Migration and Ethnic Relations in the Russian Federation,” an opinion survey conducted by the Levada-Analytical Center (Moscow) and the Public Opinion Research Laboratory, Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch (Vladivostok) (September-November 2005) (with C. Richard Hofstetter)
- Methodology (includes all location codes and survey report):
LEVADA_SURVEY_REPORT_10-07-2005_translation.doc - Sample survey questionnaire (for the Russian Federation sample):
NSF_MCA_LEVADA_ANKETA_RF-FIN_migr-_-32_ENG.doc
(Questionnaires were the same in all samples, except for the lists of migrant minorities) - List of migrant minorities by survey sample:
NATS_groups_English.doc - Survey Dataset (includes question wording):
COMBO-05.SAV (SPSS 15.0)
6. Focus groups
- KRASNODAR (May 2006) [in Russian]
KRR_Focus(Final)_Transcript.doc - TVER CITY AND OBLAST (Russians and Chechens, July 2007) [In Russian]
TVER_FG_REPORT_2007-07.doc