Dataset
Weekly rates of political violent events at the national level. The weekly rates of political violent events (and of fatalities related to those events) represent the expected number of events per week (or fatalities per week) after smoothing out weekly fluctuations. The weekly rates are calculated for countries, i.e. including all political violent events within the country under analysis. For event based indicators, the weekly rate is the average number of events per week. For fatalities based indicators, the weekly rate is the average number of fatalities per week from those events. There are three types of events: Violence against civilians, Battles, Explosions and remote violence. There is one data point (weekly rate) for every week since January 1st, 2010, for every type of event and for the sum of all three event’s types. Weekly rates are calculated for the events, and for the fatalities related to those events. The calculation of the weekly rates is performed using input data from ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, https://acleddata.com) and following the method in Prieto-Curiel et al., 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291514). A short description of the method follows: 1. Start with the cumulative total: C(t) = total events (or fatalities) up to week t. 2. Fit a piecewise-linear model to this curve. 3. Within each segment (between change-points), C(t) ≈ λ × t + constant. 4. The slope λ of each segment is the estimated weekly rate.
oecd-sdmx:DSD_SWAC_PV@DF_PV_NATIONAL
OECD.SWAC