Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 7485 Bibliographic Description Scope of Study Methodology Access and Availability
Bibliographic Description
ICPSR Study No.:	7485

Persistent URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07485

Title:	Civil Strife Conflict Magnitudes, 1955-1970

Principal Investigator(s):	Ted Robert Gurr

	Vaughn Bishop

Bibliographic Citation:	Gurr, Ted Robert, and Vaughn Bishop. CIVIL STRIFE CONFLICT MAGNITUDES, 1955-1970 [Computer file]. ICPSR07485-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07485

Scope of Study
Summary:	This data collection provides aggregate measures of the magnitude and intensity of civil conflicts that occurred between 1955-1970 in up to 115 countries. The variables were derived by aggregating and weighting the information on specific conflict events contained in CIVIL STRIFE EVENTS, 1955-1970 (ICPSR 7531). Included are measures of "scope," indexed by number of man-days of participation per 100,000 population, and "intensity," indexed by number of deaths per 10 million population. Separate and mutually exclusive sets of magnitude measures are constructed for domestic and anti-foreign conflicts, violent and non-violent political conflicts, and turmoil and rebellion. An alternative measure of intensity is calculated by weighting total deaths by number of participants, across all events, but is not combined into any magnitude scores. Three data files include five-year aggregations: Part 1 for 1955-1960, covering ten countries, Part 2 for 1961-1965, covering 115 countries, and Part 3 for 1966-1970, covering 87 countries. Two additional files provide annual aggregations: Part 4 contains data for all 115 countries for the period 1961-1970, and Part 5 includes information only for the ten countries on which data were collected for every year between 1955-1970. A related study, CONFLICT AND SOCIETY (ICPSR 7452), contains indicators for the independent variables selected to test causal relationships with these events.

Subject Term(s):	aggression, civil disorder, civil wars, coup d'etat, internal political conflict, political violence, political protests, revolutions, riots, social conflict, social protest, violence

Geographic Coverage:	Global

Time Period:	1955 - 1970

Universe:	Events relating to internal conflicts that occurred between 1955-1970 in up to 115 polities worldwide.

Data Type:	aggregate data

Methodology
Data Source:	CIVIL STRIFE EVENTS, 1955-1970 (ICPSR 7531)

Access and Availability
Note:	A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:	1984-05-03

Version History:	The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.

	2006-01-18 - File CB7485.APP.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

	2006-01-18 - File CB7485.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

Dataset(s):	DS1: Five-Year Aggregations 1955-1960 for 10 Countries DS2: Five-Year Annual Aggregations 1955-1960 for 10 Countries DS3: Five-Year Annual Aggregations 1966-1970 for 87 Countries DS4: Annual Aggregations for 10 Countries, 1955-1970 DS5: Annual Aggregations for 115 Countries, 1961-1970

Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 7485

Bibliographic Description

Scope of Study

Methodology

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