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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.GRP-NUM / 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 years) / ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes
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/contact / 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
UCDP / Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research / 208522_ucdp-actor-dataset-v.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
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/StudyPage.xhtml?globalId=hdl:1902.1/15973&studyListingIndex=2_fcee301dba3be9dc90023375a288 / Jonathan Wilkenfeld; Victor Asal; Amy Pate, 2008, "Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) Middle East, 1980-2004", http://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/15973 UNF:5:qvN7+gsRsnFRvZpkEupM1A== Center for International Developenment and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland, Department of Government and Politics [Distributor] V1 [Version]