ev_deaths: Election Violence Deaths data.

In gidonc/durhamevp: ESRC/AHRC Victorian Election Violence Project R Code (Durham University)

Election Violence Deaths data.

Description

The death data was created from the original coding. All events with at least one report involving a killing were individually checked to verify whether a death had actually occurred. If so, additional variables (listed below) have been extracted from the original coding sources. In total we found 96 individual deaths occurring during the 20 General Elections, 1832-1914. Data on deaths is added to the package in two ways: (1) some aggregate descriptives at the event level (see ev_events description) and (2) as stand-alone ev_deaths data frame, which is described below.

Usage

ev_deaths

Format

A data frame with 96 rows and 26 variables, which are:

event_id

The event_id the record relates to in the ev_events and event_reports dataframes.

election_name

Identifies the election the record relates to.

case_id

Death record within event: counter of the number of deaths within an event.

location

String recording the location at which the death occurred.

victim_name

Name of the victim if provided in the source material; otherwise NA.

victim_gender

Gender of the victim if provided. Values: male, female, NA

victim_age

Age in number of years if provided in the source material; otherwise NA.

victim_age_text

String providing the in-text description of the victim's age given; otherwise NA.

victim_profession

String variable indicating the profession of the vitim if provided; otherwise NA.

vicim_election_role

String indicating the role of the victim during the election if provided; otherwise NA.

victim_affiliation

String recording the victim's party affiliation if provided; otherwise NA.

specific_circumstance

String describing the specific circumstances of the death; otherwise NA.

grouped_circumstance

String variable grouping circumstance of deaths into five categories. Values: Riot, Roughs, Candidate Meeting, Political Quarrel, and Other.

weapon

String listing weapons used in the incident. If not provided in the source material NA is coded.

cause_death

String recording the denoted cause of death if provided; otherwise NA.

election_point_death

String indicating the timing of the death during the election proceedings. Values: during campaigning, during polling, after polling.

perpetrator

String describing the perpetrator if provided in source material; otherwise NA.

perpetrator_affiliation

String recording the perpetrator's party affiliation if provided; otherwise NA.

consequences

String recording any electoral consequences of the death as noted n the source material; otherwise NA.

best_bna_link

Link to the newspaper source inthe British Newspaper Archive with the most detailed account of the death. Links the other source material can be obtained by linking ev_deaths to event_reports and user_docs.

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