Abstract
A growing body of literature has explored the impact of ethnic fractionalisation on long-term development outcomes. This chapter explores the way ethnic identities relate to the dynamics of exclusion by focusing on attitudes towards a multi-ethnic state and ethnically mixed living in post-independence Kosovo. This study is based on a survey (face-to-face interviews) of 1,367 respondents carried out in Kosovo 4 months after it proclaimed independence. Responses of the ethnic Albanians, the ethnic Serbs and other minorities in the country are contrasted, but important differences are identified across groups defined by age, gender, income levels, area of residence and labour market status. These findings suggest that, despite the prevalence of negative attitudes towards a multi-ethnic state and residential co-location which emerge for some groups, a number of factors potentially influenced by policy mediate the way ethnicity translates into attitudes towards integration.
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Ethnic Albanians did not participate in the census.
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Ipsos Strategic Puls follows the standards of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR) with regard to sample size, data collection and processing and data analysis method. The sampling frame is based on the so-called polling station territories, which represent the approximate size of census units. These base units allow for the most reliable available sample selection, as these units provide the most complete data. The sampling unit hierarchy consists of: polling station territories (920 in the sampling universe), each coming with 10 sampling points, households (420,000 in the sampling universe) and respondents (1,320,000 in the sampling universe). To reduce sampling error, the strata are defined by criteria of optimal geographical and cultural uniformity, with the first-level strata consisting of regions and the second-level strata consisting of urban versus rural settlements. Within this sampling frame, the applied type of sample is the three-stage random representative stratified sample.
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Our results remain qualitatively unchanged if the non-respondents form a middle category of the ordered answer scale (“No”, “Probably no”, “Do not know/No answer”, “Probably yes”, “Yes”).
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Ivļevs, A., King, R.M. (2013). Together or Apart? Attitudes Towards Multi-ethnic State and Ethnically Mixed Communities in Post-independence Kosovo. In: Ruggeri Laderchi, C., Savastano, S. (eds) Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4945-4_12
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