Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB), 1948-1978 (ICPSR 7767)

Principal Investigator(s): Azar, Edward E.

Summary: The Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) is a longitudinal computer-based library of daily international and domestic events or interactions. The event records in this file describe the actions of approximately 135 countries in the world, both toward one another and within their domestic environments. A typical descriptive event record, such as an international border clash or domestic press censorship, is coded in nine variables. A COPDAB event record includes date of event, actor initiating t... (more info)

• These data are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions. Because you are not logged in, we cannot verify that you will be able to download the data.

Azar, Edward E. Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB), 1948-1978. ICPSR07767-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-06-03. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07767.v4

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07767.v4

Export Citation:

• RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.)
• EndNote XML (EndNote X4.0.1 or higher)

Summary:   The Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB) is a longitudinal computer-based library of daily international and domestic events or interactions. The event records in this file describe the actions of approximately 135 countries in the world, both toward one another and within their domestic environments. A typical descriptive event record, such as an international border clash or domestic press censorship, is coded in nine variables. A COPDAB event record includes date of event, actor initiating the event, target of the event, source from which information was gathered about the event, issue area(s), and textual information about the activity. The event record also contains an evaluation by the coder regarding the type and scale value of the event.

Subject Terms:   internal political conflict, international conflict, international relations, political violence, war

Geographic Coverage:   Global

Time Period:  

• 1948--1978

Data Types:   event/transaction data

Data Source:

public sources such as newspapers, chronologies, and other historical sources

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-05-03

Version History:

• 2009-06-03 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

• List all 11 variables in this study

• Search the variables in this study

Use any of the notification links to add this study to your RSS feed; you will then receive notification if the study is substantively updated.

• Citations exports are provided above.

• Export Study-level metadata (does not include variable-level metadata)

  • DDI Codebook or DDI Lifecycle

  • Dublin Core

  • MARC21 XML

  • DataCite XML

If you're looking for collection-level metadata rather than an individual metadata record, please visit our Metadata Records page.

• View Usage of this Study