Latin American Student Protest Dataset (LASPD)

The LASPD is a dataset of 4,717 student protest events in eighteen Latin American countries between the years 2000 and 2012. It was created using the monthly Chronologies of Social Conflict of the Latin American Social Observatory (Observatorio Social de América Latina, OSAL, 2012), which belongs to the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). These Chronologies contain summaries of social conflicts (including press conferences, meetings between government authorities and social actors, and protests) based on media reports from each country, with each summary typically being one or two paragraphs long. The media analyzed include national and local newspapers, news websites, and radio stations. OSAL analyzed at least three media in any given period.