cooperatives: Characteristics of 67 fishing cooperatives around the world
In jcvdav/cooperatR: Manipulate and wuery Dan Ovando's cooperative database

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This document provides definitions for variables collected in the database of cooperative fisheries. Data are provided in broad categories of

General information
Ecosystem characteristics
Host country
Catch share management
Non-catch share management
Whole fleet data
Fishery specific data
Cooperative behaviors
Cooperative characteristics
Exclusivity
Role of government

Variables fall into 2 general classes:

binary data (1 or 0)
descriptive entry (e.g. 10,000 tones, coral reef)

All variable names are written in snake case. For example, a variable for consistent spawining location of a species is included as consistent_spawning_location.

A full list of variables present in the dataset can be seen by using the get_variables function.

For a full documentation of the original dataset, look at the supplementary information of the paper in: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.03.012.

For a record of changes made to the database visit http://www.jcvdav.github.io/cooperatR/DBcleaning.nb.html

1	data(cooperatives)

A data frame with 103 rows and 133 variables

Juan Carlos

Daniel A. Ovando, Robert T. Deacon, Sarah E. Lester, Christopher Costello, Tonya Van Leuvan, Karlynn McIlwain, C. Kent Strauss, Michael Arbuckle, Rod Fujita, Stefan Gelcich, Hirotsugu Uchida, Conservation incentives and collective choices in cooperative fisheries, Marine Policy, Volume 37, January 2013, Pages 132-140, ISSN 0308-597X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.03.012.

get_variables

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