🌍 Global Terrorism, Socioeconomic & Governance Panel Dataset

📌 Description

This dataset is a structured, multi-source panel dataset integrating terrorism, socioeconomic, and governance indicators at the country-year level.

It is designed to support econometric analysis, policy research, and machine learning applications focused on understanding the determinants of terrorism.

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📂 Dataset Structure

• gtd/
  Contains terrorism-related data derived from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD)

• socioeconomic/
  Includes multiple socioeconomic indicators such as GDP, unemployment, poverty, education, and inequality

• wgi/
  Contains World Governance Indicators including political stability, rule of law, corruption control, and governance effectiveness

• merged/
  Final processed panel dataset combining all sources on common keys (country, year)

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📊 Features

Typical variables include:

• Country
• Year
• Number of terrorist incidents
• Casualties (killed/injured)
• GDP and economic indicators
• Unemployment and poverty rates
• Governance scores (WGI indicators)

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🔧 Processing Pipeline

• Data cleaning and normalization
• Handling missing values
• Harmonization of country names and codes
• Merging datasets on country-year keys

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🎯 Intended Use

• Panel data econometrics
• Regression modeling
• Policy analysis
• Predictive modeling and ML workflows

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📜 Licensing & Attribution

This dataset is a processed aggregation of publicly available datasets:

• Global Terrorism Database (GTD)
• World Governance Indicators (WGI)
• Socioeconomic datasets

All original datasets remain the property of their respective owners. Users should consult original sources for licensing details.

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⚠️ Limitations

• Missing values in some country-year combinations
• Potential inconsistencies across sources due to differing methodologies

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