UCDP External Support – Disaggregated/Supporter Dataset
SND-ID: ext0034-2.
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Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Stina Högbladh - Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Therése Pettersson - Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Lotta Themnér - Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Research
Research principal
Uppsala University
- Uppsala Cinflict Data Program
Description
The UCDP, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, contains information on a large number data on organised violence, armed violence, and peacemaking. There is information from 1946 up to today, and the datasets are updated continuously. The data can be downloaded for free, and available in several different versions.
The UCDP External Support Data contains information of external support in intrastate conflicts, 1975-2010. Provides information of kind of support, extern actor and specific year. The data is divided into two separate datasets which are analogous, i.e. contain identical data structured in a different manner to simplify various types of research such as different types of statistical analyses.
Purpose:
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) collects information on a large number of aspects of armed violence since 1946.
The dataset provide data where the unit of analysis is the warring party-supporter-year, i.e. each row in the dataset contains information on the type of support that a warring party receives from a specific external party in a given year, using dummy variables for
The UCDP External Support Data contains information of external support in intrastate conflicts, 1975-2010. Provides information of kind of support, extern actor and specific year. The data is divided into two separate datasets which are analogous, i.e. contain identical data structured in a different manner to simplify various types of research such as different types of statistical analyses.
Purpose:
The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) collects information on a large number of aspects of armed violence since 1946.
The dataset provide data where the unit of analysis is the warring party-supporter-year, i.e. each row in the dataset contains information on the type of support that a warring party receives from a specific external party in a given year, using dummy variables for each category of support. The dataset contains information for the time-period 1975–2010. Show less..
Data contains personal data
No
Language
Unit of analysis
Population
Intrastate armed conflicts
Time period(s) investigated
1975 – 2010
Variables
30
Number of individuals/objects
6519
Responsible department/unit
Uppsala Cinflict Data Program
Research area
Conflict, security and peace (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Political science (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Pettersson, Therése, 2011. “Pillars of Strength – External Support to Warring Parties”, in Therése Pettersson & Lotta Themnér eds., States in Armed Conflict 2010. Research Report 94. Uppsala: Universitetstryckeriet
Högbladh, Stina, Therése Pettersson & Lotta Themnér, 2011. “External Support in Armed Conflict 1975–2009. Presenting new data” Paper presented at the 52nd Annual International Studies Association Convention, Montreal, Canada, 16-19 March, 2011.