COW country id number
country name
abbreviated country name
1 for first in each country series
start year of war/conflict
# wars in progress in country year
1 if war ongoing in country year
lagged war, w/ 0 for start of country series
1 for civil war onset
1 if onset = 1 & ethwar ~= 0
estimated war duration
1 = rebels aim at center, 3 = aim at exit or autonomy, 2 = mixed or ambig.
Id for case, usually name of rebel group(s)
war ends = 1, 0 = ongoing
0 = not ethnic, 1 = ambig/mixed, 2 = ethnic
war years for each onset
population, in 1000s
log of pop
revised polity score
gdp/pop based on pwt5.6, wdi2001,cow energy data
source/type of gdp/pop estimate
lagged gdpenl, except for first in country series
log of lagged gdpen
log population, lagged except for first in country series
country's region, based on MAR project
Dummy for Western Democracies & Japan
Dummy for Eastern Europe
Dummy for Latin America
Dummy for Sub-Saharan Africa
Dummy for Asia (-Japan)
Dummy for North Africa/Middle East
Former British colony
former French colony
Estimated % mountainous terrain
log of mtnest
high - low elevation, in meters
> 1/3 export revenues from fuels
noncontiguous state
ethnic frac. based on Soviet Atlas, plus est's for missing in 1964
ethnic fractionalization based on Fearon 2002 APSA paper
share of largest ethnic group (Fearon 2002 APSA)
share of 2nd largest ethnic group (Fearon 2002 APSA)
# languages in Ethnologue > min(1% pop, 1mill)
religious fractionalization
size of largest confession
size of second largest confession
% muslim
1 in 1st 2 years of state's existence
lagged polity2, except 1st in country series
> 2 change in Polity measure in last 3 yrs
lagged anocracy (-6 < polity2l < 6)
lagged democracy (polity2l > 5)
ethfrac coded for colonial empires
warl coded for data with empires
onset coded for data with empires
gdpenl coded for empires data
lpopl coded for empires data
lmtnest coded for empires data
ncontig coded for empires
polity2l adjusted for empires (see fn38 in paper)
# Sambanis/Doyle civ wars in progress
onset of Sambanis/Doyle war
# Collier/Hoeffler wars in progress
onset of Collier/Hoeffler war
# COW civ wars in progress
onset of COW civ war
1 if COW war ongoing in last period
1 if S/D war ongoing in last period
1 if C/H war ongoing in last period