Central Asia data set, 1989-1999:
These files contain WEIS-coded event data for an assortment
of Central Asian states, including Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbijan, Kazakstan,
Kyrgistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for the period May
1989 to July 1999. The ".all" files contain 38,703 events generated by
coding complete stories; the ".lead" file contain 8,719 events generated
only from lead sentences. The "3CODE" files use 3-character actor codes,
which do not distinguish between actors within a state; The "6CODE" files
use 6-character actor codes that distinguish internal actors, notably
rebel groups. Events are coded from stories downloaded from the Reuters
Business Briefing service. The KEDS dictionaries used to code the stories
are included, as is an Excel spreadsheet containing a summary of the monthly
net cooperation scores aggregated using the Goldstein scale. The data
sets are compressed using the .sit (Macintosh) and .zip (DOS/Windows)
formats.
Download Central Asia data (.zip)
LAST UPDATED: 1 SEPTEMBER 1999