Our group has reconciled over 3000 ethnolinguistic categories and 3000 administrative subdistricts across over 500 demographic and health surveys and hundreds of attitude and value surveys worldwide. We are using these to understand variation in social behavior and health outcomes by ethnicity, language and administrative subdistrict.
Relevant publications using fine-grained social designations
Hackman J, Hruschka DJ (2020). Disentangling basal and accrued height-for-age for cross-population comparisons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 171:3, 481-495
Hruschka DJ, Stulp G, Hackman JV (2019). Identifying the limits to socioeconomic influences on human growth. Economics and Human Biology. 34, 239-251.
Hruschka DJ, Hadley C (2016). How much do universal anthropometric standards bias the global monitoring of obesity and undernutrition? Obesity Reviews. 17 (11), 1030-1039.
Hruschka DJ, Hadley C, Brewis A, Stojanowski C (2015). Genetic population structure accounts for ecogeographic rules in tropic and subtropic dwelling humans. PLOS ONE. 10(3): e0122301.