World Handbook III (Daily Events Data)
GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA1131 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1131
Abstract: Political events in 139 countries of the world.
Topics: recording of type of political events, such as e.g.
demonstrations, police deployment, uprising, strike, armed political
conflicts, politically motivated murders, political strikes, attempted
coup, elections, regularly replacing rulers or a government; relaxing
of censorship and political limitations; date of events; controversy
and goal of political action; number of participants and injured;
damage caused; length and extent of events; number of dead; active
groups; source from which the event was encoded.
Methodology
Date(s) of Data Collection: 1948 - 1982
Geographic coverage: , 139 countries of the world
Universe: Political events from certain newspaper publications and
various reference works.
Number of Units: 101620
Sampling Procedure: Census
Mode of Data Collection: Content analysis of newspapers and reference works published by the UN.
Data Collector: Ch. L. Taylor,
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin;
D.A. Jodice,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Analysis System(s): OSIRIS, SPSS
Number of Variables: 40
Bibliographic information
Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Jodice, David A. - Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. | Taylor, Charles L. - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Publication year: 1982
DOI: 10.4232/1.1131
Study number: ZA1131
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive
Versions
Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.1131
Version history: ... more Reference publications
Publications: Taylor, Charles Lewis; Jodice, David A.:
World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators.
New Haven: Yale University Press 1982. (Third Edition, 2 Vols.).
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Detente and Its Effects: A Measurement of East-West-Trade.
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