Software, E-Resource The Battle Deaths Dataset.
About this Item
- Title
- The Battle Deaths Dataset.
- Summary
- The Battle Deaths Dataset was compiled by Bethany Lacina and Nils Petter Gleditsch. The data are packaged in different ways in this work: as 1 Excel file for use with UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflicts Dataset 1946-2005 (Gleditsch et al., 2002; Harbom and Wallensteen, 2005); as 9 Excel files for use with the Correlates of War (COW) data on wars 1900-1997 (Sarkees, 2000); as 2 Excel files for use with data on civil wars 1945-1999 compiled by Fearon and Laitin (2001); and as 1 excel file with yearly total battle deaths. A codebook and documentation on coding decisions for the different packages of the data are also included as PDFs. While the website states that there is a PDF file with version history and errata, that PDF is missing.
- Contributor Names
- Lacina, Bethany, compiler.
- Gleditsch, Nils Petter, 1942-, compiler.
- International Peace Research Institute, issuing body.
- Created / Published
- [Oslo, Norway] : PRIO, 2006.
- Contents
- For use with the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset -- Documentation of Coding Decisions: UCDP/PRIO Data -- For use with the Correlates of War Dataset -- Documentation of Coding Decisions: Correlates of War Data -- For use with the Fearon & Laitin Civil Wars Dataset -- Documentation of Coding Decisions: Fearon & Laitin Data -- Codebook -- Version history and errata -- Yearly Total Battle Deaths
- Subject Headings
- - Mortality--Statistics
- - War casualties--Statistics
- - Battle casualties--Statistics
- - Civilian war casualties--Statistics
- Genre
- Data sets
- Notes
- - "This is an update of the Battle Deaths Dataset (V.1.0) first published in 2005."
- - "Note that version 2 of dataset does not include a list of battle deaths by participants. Users in need of such data should confer the original v.1.0."
- - Downloaded by the Library of Congress on January 23, 2019.
- - The link for the Version history and errata PDF on the website will not load (viewed February 4, 2019).
- - Title from website home page (viewed January 17, 2020).
- Medium
- textual datasets
- Call Number/Physical Location
- HB1321
- Repository
- s-Online Electronic Resource
- Digital Id
- https://www.prio.org/Data/Armed-Conflict/Battle-Deaths/Old-versions/The-Battle-Deaths-Dataset-version-20/ External
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2019205400
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019205400
- Language
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- English
- Online Format
- compressed data
- Description
- The Battle Deaths Dataset was compiled by Bethany Lacina and Nils Petter Gleditsch. The data are packaged in different ways in this work: as 1 Excel file for use with UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflicts Dataset 1946-2005 (Gleditsch et al., 2002; Harbom and Wallensteen, 2005); as 9 Excel files for use with the Correlates of War (COW) data on wars 1900-1997 (Sarkees, 2000); as 2 Excel files for use with data on civil wars 1945-1999 compiled by Fearon and Laitin (2001); and as 1 excel file with yearly total battle deaths. A codebook and documentation on coding decisions for the different packages of the data are also included as PDFs. While the website states that there is a PDF file with version history and errata, that PDF is missing.
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- https://lccn.loc.gov/2019205400
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International Peace Research Institute, Issuing Body. The Battle Deaths Dataset. [Oslo, Norway: PRIO, 2006] Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019205400/.
APA citation style:
International Peace Research Institute, I. B. (2006) The Battle Deaths Dataset. [Oslo, Norway: PRIO] [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019205400/.
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International Peace Research Institute, Issuing Body. The Battle Deaths Dataset. [Oslo, Norway: PRIO, 2006] Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019205400/>.
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