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Civil war data
Description
Civil war data from Fearon and Laitin (2003).
Usage
data(war)
Format
war
is a 6326 row data frame with the following columns:
- onset
equal to 1 for all country-years in which a civil war started.
- instab
equal to 1 if unstable government.
- oil
equal to 1 for oil exporter country.
- cwar
equal to 1 if the country had a distinct civil war ongoing in the previous year.
- gdp
GDP per capita (measured as thousands of 1985 U.S. dollars) lagged one year.
- ncontig
equal to 1 for non-contiguous state.
- nwstate
equal to 1 for new state.
- lpop
log(population size).
- lmnt
log(mountainous).
- ethfrac
measure of ethnic fractionalization (calculated as the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from a country are not from the same ethnicity).
- relfrac
measure of religious fractionalisation.
- poldem
measure of political democracy (ranges from -10 to 10) lagged one year.
Source
Data are from:
Fearon J.D., Laitin D.D. (2003), Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War. The American Political Science Review, 97, 75-90.