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Description & Citation--Study No. 7767

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7767
 
Title:Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB), 1948-1978
 
Principal Investigator(s):Edward E. Azar
 
Bibliographic Citation:Azar, Edward E. CONFLICT AND PEACE DATA BANK (COPDAB), 1948-1978 [Computer file]. ICPSR07767-v3. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Center for International Development and Conflict Management [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) is a longitudinal computer-based library of daily international and domestic events or interactions. The event records in this file describe the actions of approximately 135 countries in the world, both toward one another and within their domestic environments. A typical descriptive event record, such as an international border clash or domestic press censorship, is coded in nine variables. A COPDAB event record includes date of event, actor initiating the event, target of the event, source from which information was gathered about the event, issue area(s), and textual information about the activity. The event record also contains an evaluation by the coder regarding the type and scale value of the event.
 
Subject Term(s):internal political conflict, international conflict, international relations, political violence, war
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Time Period:1948 - 1978
 
Data Type:event/transaction data
 

Methodology

Data Source:public sources such as newspapers, chronologies, and other historical sources
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as LRECL, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-03
 

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