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event data from icews for select countries from 2002 to 2014, and additional nodal variables from the world bank and polity iv.

Usage

data(icews)

Format

a data frame with dyadic observations and the following variables:

i

source country

j

target country

year

year of observation

id

observation identifier

verbCoop

verbal cooperation score

matlCoop

material cooperation score

verbConf

verbal conflict score

matlConf

material conflict score

i_year

year for source country

j_year

year for target country

i_polity2

polity iv democracy score for source country

j_polity2

polity iv democracy score for target country

i_iso3c

iso 3166-1 alpha-3 code for source country

j_iso3c

iso 3166-1 alpha-3 code for target country

i_region

region for source country

j_region

region for target country

i_gdp

gdp for source country

j_gdp

gdp for target country

i_log_gdp

log gdp for source country

j_log_gdp

log gdp for target country

i_pop

population for source country

j_pop

population for target country

i_log_pop

log population for source country

j_log_pop

log population for target country

Source

icews coded event data, harvard dataverse.

References

boschee, e., lautenschlager, j., o'brien, s., shellman, s., starz, j., and ward, m. (2015). icews coded event data. harvard dataverse. doi:10.7910/dvn/28075 .

Author

cassy dorff, shahryar minhas

Examples

data(icews)
icews[1:3, ]
#>             i       j year                       id verbCoop matlCoop verbConf
#> 2 Afghanistan Albania 2002 AFGHANISTAN_ALBANIA_2002        6        1        0
#> 3 Afghanistan Albania 2003 AFGHANISTAN_ALBANIA_2003        1        1        0
#> 4 Afghanistan Albania 2004 AFGHANISTAN_ALBANIA_2004       10        2        0
#>   matlConf           i_year       j_year i_polity2 j_polity2 i_iso3c j_iso3c
#> 2        0 AFGHANISTAN_2002 ALBANIA_2002        NA         7     AFG     ALB
#> 3        0 AFGHANISTAN_2003 ALBANIA_2003        NA         7     AFG     ALB
#> 4        1 AFGHANISTAN_2004 ALBANIA_2004        NA         7     AFG     ALB
#>     i_region              j_region      i_gdp      j_gdp i_log_gdp j_log_gdp
#> 2 South Asia Europe & Central Asia 7555185296 6857137321  22.74550  22.64856
#> 3 South Asia Europe & Central Asia 8222480251 7236243584  22.83014  22.70237
#> 4 South Asia Europe & Central Asia 8338755823 7635298387  22.84418  22.75605
#>      i_pop   j_pop i_log_pop j_log_pop
#> 2 21000256 3051010  16.86005  14.93098
#> 3 22645130 3039616  16.93546  14.92724
#> 4 23553551 3026939  16.97479  14.92306