Summary information
Study title
World Handbook III (Daily Events Data)
Creator
Jodice, David A. (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. )
Taylor, Charles L. (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Study number / PID
ZA1131, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)
10.4232/1.1131 (DOI)
Data access
Information not available
Series
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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.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
1948 - 1982
Country
Time dimension
Not availableAnalysis unit
Not availableUniverse
Not availableSampling procedure
Census
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Content analysis of newspapers and reference works published by the UN.
Access
Publisher
GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences
Publication year
1982
Terms of data access
A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.
Related publications
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