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The War on Terror: A Data-Driven Learning Guide
Interpretation & Summary
Think about your answers to the application questions before you click through to the interpretation guide for help in answering them.
What percentage of the events in this dataset had a "political, economic, religious, or social goal?"
What percentage of events had "intention to coerce, intimidate or publicize to larger audience(s)?"
What percentage of events in this dataset were "outside international humanitarian law?"
In which category of level of consequence did most of the events fall?
What is the most common civilian target in this dataset? What is the second most common civilian target?
According to this dataset, were there fewer or more events before the War on Terror?
Did North America experience fewer or more events after the War on Terror? Which two regions experienced the most events overall? Which regions experienced the fewest? In which regions did terrorist incidents increase, proportionally?
Which region had the most "bombing/explosion" events? Which region had the most "hostage taking (kidnapping)" incidents? Which region had the most "facility/infrastructure" events?
CITATION: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. War on Terror: A Data-Driven Learning Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-16. Doi:10.3886/terrorism
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