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The latest versions available below always include prior versions. For example, the datasets for Version 2.0 (2003-2015) include all events for Version 1.0 (2003-2012).
It is very important to note that the MMAD only covers particular countries during selected time frames. It is NOT a global dataset with continuous coverage of all the included countries. Please refer to the codebook to see which countries and time periods are included.
Report-level Data
This is the original version of the MMAD. The table contains report-level data, where each line corresponds to a report about a particular event. Many events are covered in more than one report, so do NOT use these data for event-level analyses without prior aggregation (or some other way to take into account the nested data structure)! For more information about the variables included, please refer to the MMAD documentation.
- id: Identifier for this report, unique within each version
- cowcode: The Correlates of War country code
- location: The unique ID of the city, from the GeoNames database
- longitude/latitude: The geographic coordinates of the city, from the GeoNames database
- asciiname: The ASCII name of the city, from the GeoNames database
- event_date: The event date
- side: The side the protest is directed at (anti/pro-government)
- actors: The actors involved in the protest (as mentioned in the report, no standardization)
- issue: The protest issue (as mentioned in the report, no standardization)
- scope: The scope of the protest (local/regional/national)
- part_violence: The level of participant violence
- sec_engagement: The level of security force engagement
- numparticipants: The number of participants (as mentioned in the report, sometimes contains text)
- avg_numparticipants: An estimate of the number of participants, where words such as “hundreds” were replaced with approximate numbers. If more than one estimate is reported, the average is taken.
- source: the source of the report (AP, AFP or BBC Monitoring)
- version: the MMAD version this report belongs to
Download the latest version of the report-level dataset here: MMAD Reports, Version 4.0 (1156 downloads )
Event-level Data
For users requiring data at the level of events, we provide a pre-aggregated version of the MMAD. The table contains the following variables:
- cowcode: The Correlates of War country code
- location: The unique ID of the city, from the GeoNames database
- asciiname: The ASCII name of the city, from the GeoNames database
- longitude/latitude: The geographic coordinates of the city, from the GeoNames database
- event_date: The event date
- side: The side the protest is directed at (anti/pro-government)
- numreports: The number of reports available for this event
- max_scope: The maximum scope across the reports for this event
- max_partviolence: The maximum level of participant violence across the reports for this event
- max_secengagement: The maximum level of security force engagement across the reports for this event
- mean_avg_numparticipants: The mean of the avg_numparticipants variable across the reports for this event
Download the latest version of the event-level dataset here: MMAD Events, Version 4.0 (1739 downloads )
Archive
MMAD Events, Version 3.0 (176 downloads )
MMAD Reports, Version 3.0 (116 downloads )
MMAD Events, Version 2.0 (369 downloads )
MMAD Reports, Version 2.0 (244 downloads )
MMAD Events, Version 1.0 (102 downloads )
MMAD Reports, Version 1.0 (71 downloads )