Data for: Natural Resource Rents, Political Regime and Terrorism in Africa

The file contains the dataset used for the empirical analysis of the study titled "Natural Resource Rents, Political Regimes and Terrorism in Africa". The dataset includes domter - Number of domestic terrorism incidents; transter - Number of transnational terrorism incidents; Unter - Number of terrorism incidents whose category is unclear; totter - Total number of terrorism incidents; demo - Dummy variables for democracies scoring a 6 and higher on polity; autoc - Dummy variables for autocracies scoring a -6 or lower on polity; anocy - Dummy variables for anocracies scoring between 5 and -5 on polity; totnat - It is given by the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents, mineral rents, forest rents; gdppc - Gross domestic product divided by midyear population. Data are in constant U.S. dollars; pop - Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum; ethnic - Ethnic diversity is computed as one minus the Herfindahl index of ethnolinguistic group shares, and reflects the probability that two randomly selected individuals from a population belong to different groups; trade - Export plus import of commodities (% of GDP); conflict - The index of the risk of internal conflict; surface - Total surface area in millions of square miles.

本文件包含用于题为《非洲的自然资源租金、政治体制与恐怖主义》的研究的实证分析的数据集。该数据集包含以下变量：domter：国内恐怖主义事件发生数量；transter：跨国恐怖主义事件发生数量；Unter：类别不明的恐怖主义事件发生数量；totter：恐怖主义事件总发生数量；demo：针对在政体评分中获得6分及以上的民主国家所设置的虚拟变量；autoc：针对在政体评分中获得-6分及以下的专制国家所设置的虚拟变量；anocy：针对政体评分介于-5至5之间的混合政体国家所设置的虚拟变量；totnat：石油租金、天然气租金、煤炭租金、矿产租金与森林租金的总和；gdppc：以不变价美元计价的人均国内生产总值，即国内生产总值除以年中总人口；pop：基于实际人口统计口径的总人口，该口径统计所有常住居民，不考虑其法律身份或公民国籍，但不包含未在庇护国永久定居的难民；ethnic：民族多样性指数，计算方式为1减去民族语言群体份额的赫芬达尔指数，用于反映从某一人口群体中随机抽取两名个体时，二者分属不同群体的概率；trade：商品进出口总额（占国内生产总值的百分比）；conflict：内部冲突风险指数；surface：陆地总面积，单位为百万平方英里。