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Update of the CNTS Data Archive

The new edition (July 2012) of the CNTS Data Archive from Databanks International contains 196 years of global data, from 1815 through 2011. A new option this year is the Domestic Conflict Event Variable LINKS, which provides links to news reports of each event, starting with the 2011 data. Additionally, the World Bank country codes and country names have been matched to the data.

Global Health Observatory (GHO)

The Global Health Observatory database is the World Health Organization's main health statistics repository. It provides data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) has been upgraded and incorporated into the latest version (February 2011) of the GHO, to provide more data, more tools, more analysis and more reports.

World Bank Frees up Data

In April 2010 the World Bank Group opened up the World Development Indicators database (and several other databases) and offered free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers. The decision was part of a larger effort to increase access to information at the World Bank. And, for the first time, data was made available in languages other than English, with an initial 330 indicators translated into French, Spanish and Arabic.

European Social Survey: Contextual data

This 2008 report formed the origins of this website. It examines the availability and comparability of extant sources of contextual statistics of particular interest to users of ESS data. This website seeks to broaden the scope and be a valuable resource for social science data users worldwide (PDF).

 

 

European Protest and Coercion Data

Research project

European Protest and Coercion Data is developed by Ron Francisco at the University of Kansas. The website offers free download of what Francisco refers to as “valid interval data” on protest and coercion in 28 European countries from 1980 through 1995 (for every day).

Dataset

European Protest and Coercion Data

European Protest and Coercion Data

Data types and sources

The project used Lexis-Nexis as its primary source medium and accessed its Reuters Textline library, which provided global, regional and local wire-services as well as on-line newspapers and magazines—a total of over 400 publications. The data are country-specific.

Data download

European Protest and Coercion Data

Topics

European Protest and Coercion Data codes all reported protest and repressive events such as strikes, occupations, hunger strikes, and vigils. The data are interval. Date, day, action type, location, target or government agent (police, court, ministry, etc.), number of protesters (all, arrested, injured, killed) are shown, the organizational strength of the protesters is estimated and there is a description of each event with the identification of the original source.

Geographical coverage

The original dataset covers 28 European countries, including data on a regional level in the cases of Northern Ireland, the Czech and Slovakia Republics, and East and West Germany. Note that similar daily interval data for Korea, Burma and four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador and Peru) are available from the same webpage.

Time coverage and updates

The dataset is completed and contains daily and sub-daily interval coded data from 1980 through 1995.

Documentation

All variables are well documented in the project’s codebook, which is available online. The codebook covers topics such as context coding, coding conventions and country notes.

Access conditions and cost

Available free of charge.

Access procedures

Ready-made, predefined tables.

Data formats

Excel and ASCII text (tab-delimited)

Comparability and data quality

European Protest and Coercion Data provides users with data containing information about protest events in greater volume and quality. Nam (2006:282) argues that “the problem of inconsistency of categorization is resolved by focusing on an event itself rather than on a category.” Furthermore, the PCD project codes sub-daily events and employs data from many relevant sources. The traditional datasets remain vulnerable to various types of bias due to their dependence on very few sources. See Nam (2006) for a general discussion on coding protest data.

Literature

Francisco, R. A. 2000. Codebook for European Protest and Coercion Data, 1980 through 1995. University of Kansas.

Nam, T. 2006. What You Use Matters: Coding Protest Data. PS: Political Science & Politics, 39:2:281-287. Cambridge University Press.

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