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

Version Date: Jun 3, 2009

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Principal Investigator(s):
Edward E. Azar

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07767.v4

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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.

Citation

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

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Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1948 -- 1978
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Data Source

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

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07767.v4

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

1984-05-03 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.
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