iraq_body_count: Iraq Body Count dataset

In abissellsiders/ipsed: Political Economic and Social Datasets with INTernational scope (PESDINT)

Iraq Body Count dataset

Description

The Iraq Body Count is a passive surveillance count of civilian deaths in Iraq since 2003. Passive surveillance guarantees that the IBC is an undercount: only deaths corroborated by public reports (such as media, hospital, or gov't reports) are included.

Usage

iraq_body_count

Format

A data table with 51607 or more rows and 13 variables. Key variables:

start_date

date on which deaths started

end_date

date on which deaths were reported

location

location in Iraq

reported_minimum

minimum number of civilians reported killed

reported_minimum

maximum number of civilians reported killed

Source

Data sources:

• DATA: Documented civilian deaths from violence: <https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/>

• INFO: A comparison of the Iraq Body Count and Wikileaks War Logs, showing that IBC is biased toward high-fatality events: <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine/article/abs/wikileaks-and-iraq-body-count-the-sum-of-parts-may-not-add-up-to-the-wholea-comparison-of-two-tallies-of-iraqi-civilian-deaths/93585802BA9EA65288321F492CA47A43>

• INFO: A comparison of the Iraq Body Count and other sources: <https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/files/32733064/Submitted_to_Casualties_Book.pdf>

References

Iraq Body Count. https://www.iraqbodycount.org/

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