DATA REPLICATION PAGE
DESCRIPTION OF VARIABLES
VARIABLE
NAME
EXPLANATION
TORG
TORG identifier
Numerical TORG (TERRORIST ORGANIZATION) identifier
GROUP
Group name(s)
All known group names, including AKAs, spelling variations, abbreviations
PRIMARY
Primary group name
Dummy var, used to identify canonical GROUP name for each group (one per group)
TOPS
TOPS identifier
Numerical TOPS (TERRORIST ORGANIZATION PROFILES) identifier
GTD
GTD identifier
Unique numerical identifier - NOT generated by GTD (GLOBAL TERRORISM DATABASE)
UCDP-GTD.dif
UCDP-to-GTD variance
Dummy var, used to identify instances where GTD and UCDP differ in how they aggregate
(related) groups
UCDP
UCDP identifier
Numerical UCDP (UPPSALA CONFLICT DATA PROGRAM) identifier
MAROB.ORGID
MAROB organizational identifier
AKA ORGID
MAROB.GRPNUM
MAROB group identifier
Numerical MAROB GROUP identifier (AKA NUMCODE)
MAR.GRP
MAR group name
Name of minority group
YRFIRST
Year founded
Year of organization's founding (or best estimate, based on earliest known data)
YRLAST
Year last
Last year of activity, per constituent datasets
TOPS.YR1
Year founded, per TOPS
Year of organization's founding, per TOPS
GTD.YR1
First year of activity, per GTD
First year an event is attributed to organization, per GTD
UCDP.YR1
First year of activity, per UCDP
First year an event is attributed to organization, per UCDP
GTD.YRLST
Last year of activity, per GTD
Last year an event is attributed to organization, per GTD
UCDP.YRLST
Last year of activity, per UCDP
Last year an event is attributed to organization, per UCDP
HBASE
Group's base of operations
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes
TOPS-ISO
Group's base of operations, per TOPS
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes
GTD-ISO
Countries of activity, per GTD (all
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes
years)
UCDP-ISO
Group's base of operations, per
UCDP
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes
MAROB-ISO
Group's base of operations, per
MAROB
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes
RGN.CODE
Geographic region
HBASE.CC
COW country numerical identifier
Numerical nation-state identifier, per CORRELATES OF WAR
DATA SOURCES
SOURCE
NAME
PUBLISHER
DATASET
UPDATED
URL
CITATION
TOPs
Terrorist Organization
Profiles
National Consortium
for the Study of
Terrorism and
Responses to
Terrorism
Online
Mar-08
www.start.umd.edu/tops
Memorial Institute for
the Prevention of
Terrorism (MIPT). 2008.
Terrorist Organizational
Profile. Accessed at
http://www.start.umd.
edu/tops.
GTD
Global Terrorism
Database
National Consortium
for the Study of
Terrorism and
Responses to
Terrorism (START)
gtd_201312dist.zip
Dec-13
www.start.umd.edu/gtd/contac
t
National Consortium
for the Study of
Terrorism and
Responses to Terrorism
(START). (2012). Global
Terrorism Database
[gtd_201312dist.zip].
Retrieved from
http://www.start.umd.
edu/gtd
Uppsala University
Department of Peace
and Conflict Research
208522_ucdpactor-datasetv.2.2-2013.zip
Dec-13
www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/
datasets/ucdp_actor_dataset
UCDP Actor Dataset
2.2-2013, Uppsala
Conflict Data Program,
www.ucdp.uu.se,
Uppsala University
UCDP
SOURCE
NAME
PUBLISHER
DATASET
UPDATED
URL
CITATION
MAROB
/MAR
Minorities at Risk
Organizational Behavior
(MAROB)
National Consortium
for the Study of
Terrorism and
Responses to
Terrorism (START)
and the Center for
International
Development and
Conflict Management
(CIDCM)
MAROB_ME_Data.
tab
May-08
http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn
/dv/start/faces/study/StudyPag
e.xhtml?globalId=hdl:1902.1/15
973&studyListingIndex=2_fcee3
01dba3be9dc90023375a288
Jonathan Wilkenfeld;
Victor Asal; Amy Pate,
2008, "Minorities at
Risk Organizational
Behavior (MAROB)
Middle East, 19802004",
http://hdl.handle.net/1
902.1/15973
UNF:5:qvN7+gsRsnFRvZ
pkEupM1A== Center
for International
Developenment and
Conflict Management
(CIDCM), University of
Maryland, Department
of Government and
Politics [Distributor] V1
[Version]