Violence Data from other Sources

The variables contained in this dataset are drawn five of the leading datasets on political violence that contain information for Africa. These are the Singer or Correlates of War dataset; Ted Gurr's Minorities at Risk dataset;, Arthur Banks' Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive; the U.S. Committee for Refugees' World Refugee Survey and Pat McGowan and Thomas H. Johnson’s data from “Sixty Coups in Thirty Years” and T.Y. Wang’s updating of that data in his African Coups Events Data, 1986-1990. The variables represented here from the Gurr, Singer and Banks datasets represent only a very small selection of data available in these sets. These sets cover more years, more countries and more variables than the selection available here. Further information on the Banks dataset is available at http://www.databanks.sitehosting.net/www/index.htm. The Singer dataset may be downloaded from ICPSR (9905).