Scholarship on immigrant integration, ethnic group formation and ethnic civil society in immigration societies is constrained by a lack of comprehensive quantitative data on ethnoreligious minority organizations. Featuring information on more than 25,000 ethnoreligious organizations, the Ethnoreligious Infrastructures in Germany Dataset (ErIGDa) makes such information available to researchers. ErIGDa provides information about the number of different kinds of ethnoreligious immigrant organizations for 61 origin groups at the level of close to 400 Kreise (districts) in Germany, resulting in a total of 24,156 minority-Kreis observations. ErIGDa distinguishes between ethnic associations, ethnic groceries and places of worship, and contains several alternative definitions to probe the sensitivity of results. The data was sourced from a variety of origins, including official registers, membership lists, online service providers, and crowd-sourced directories and refer to the late 2010s and early 2020s. ErIGDa allows researchers to explicitly measure the presence or absence of ethnoreligious infrastructures in quantitative analyses and thus contributes to advancing the study of post-migration group formation dynamics.

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