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A Comparison of UCDP GED and ACLED Conflict Events - read online free","","A comparative study examines two leading conflict events datasets—UCDP GED and ACLED—highlighting how differences in coding choices, coverage, and data structure affect research use. The analysis evaluates strengths and weaknesses for studying microlevel civil war dynamics and warns against relying on ACLED when data quality and control issues may bias sub-national findings. 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A Comparison of UCDP GED and ACLED Conflict Events  \nDatasets  \nKristine Eck  \nForthcoming in Cooperation and Conflict, 47(1)  \nIn recent years, several large-scale data collection projects have produced georeferenced, disaggregated events-level conflict data which can aid researchers in studying the microlevel dynamics of civil war. This article describes the differences between the two leading conflict events datasets, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program Georeferenced Events Dataset (UCDP GED) and the Armed Conflict Location Events Dataset (ACLED), including their relative strengths and weaknesses. The aim of this article to provide readers with some guidelines as to when these datasets should be used and when they should be avoided; it concludes that those interested in sub-national analyses of conflict should be wary ofACLED’s data due to uneven qualitycontrol issues which can result in biased findings if left unchecked by the researcher. The article also concludes that those interested in non-violent events such as troop movements have only ACLED to choose from since UCDP has not coded such data, but again warns researchers to be wary of the quality of the data. Finally, while the creation of these datasets is a positive development, some caveats are raised in relation to both datasets about the reliance on media sources.  \nAcknowledgements: Many thanks to Ralph Sundberg for his tireless assistance, as well as to Mihai Croicu, Lotta Harbom andJoakim Kreutz for useful comments. Andrew Linke was kind enough to answer my questions about ACLED. All errors are my own.  \nKeywords: events data, conflict data, armed conflict, geographic study of war, geocoding, civil war  \nCorrespondence Address: Kristine Eck, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Box 514, 751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. ([Email: Kristine.Eck@pcr.uu.se](Email: Kristine.Eck@pcr.uu.se)).  \nIntroduction  \nIn recent years, researchers studying civil war have increasingly come to embrace a “microlevel” approach to the topic. This approach is predicated on the idea that there is a fundamental mismatch between many civil war theories and their empirical applications. A reaction to the country-year level analyses common in the literature (Fearon and Laitin, 2003; Collier and Hoeffler, 2001), the microlevel approach posits that researchers should focus on sub-national or individual levels of analysis which are better suited to study the causal claims found in the literature. Within the drive for empirical disaggregation, there are two trends. The first is for household or individual surveys within conflict-stricken countries which seek to address individuallevel factors to explain the causes and outcomes of civil war (Blattman, 2010; Humphreys and Weinstein, 2008). The second—and the focus of this paper—is a trend towards geographical and temporal disaggregation of conflict events.1 Researchers who embrace this approach employ refined data on the spatial elements of where violence occurs and use disaggregated temporal units in order to study the dynamics of warring parties’behavior. For example, Balcells (2010) uses data on over 1,000 municipalities in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War to show that the degree of violence against civilians was higher in areas where prewar electoral competition between rivals approached parity. Similarly, Kopstein and Wittenberg’s (2011) data on 231 localities in Poland reveal that pogroms against Jews during the summer of 1941 were more likely to occur in areas where there were greater levels of preexisting intercommunal polarization between Jews and the titular majority group. Using municipality-level fatality data for Bosnia’s civil war, Weidmann (2011) finds that ethnicity affects wartime patterns of violence in two ways: macroterritorial explanations that focus on efforts by ethnic groups to create ethnically homogenous territories and microterritorial explanations that are the result of local ethn","cbCaiv1SzT0XegeJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiv1SzT0XegeJ","pdf",248081,"English","# Introduction\n## Microlevel approaches and event-data disaggregation\n## Data availability and major datasets\n## Study aims and dataset-use cautions","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of comparing UCDP GED and ACLED in this article?\",\"answer\":\"To provide guidelines on when UCDP GED and ACLED should be used or avoided by researchers studying conflict events.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article caution researchers about using ACLED for sub-national conflict analysis?\",\"answer\":\"It points to uneven quality-control issues that can generate biased findings if not addressed by the researcher.\"},{\"question\":\"Which dataset does the article identify as preferable for non-violent events such as troop movements, and why?\",\"answer\":\"ACLED is highlighted because UCDP has not coded such data, though data-quality concerns still apply.\"}]","In Data We Trust? 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