xSub /cross-sub.org/ is a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on
armed conflict and political violence around the world. Our goal is to preserve and consolidate multiple
open-source data collections in one comprehensive electronic archive, creating a “database of databases” for
purposes of research, education, policy-making and evaluation.
The archive currently includes data on armed conflict and protests from 195 countries (1968-2019), from 22
event data sources, including both large data collections and individual scholars. The data are available as
individual events, and as analysis-ready spatial panel datasets. To facilitate comparisons across countries
and sources, xSub organizes these data into common units of analysis, by space
(country, province, district, grid cell, electoral constituency) and time (year, month, week, day). We also
provide several pooled, multi-source versions of the data for every country.
Actor
Dictionary
xSub Codebook
Introductory Article
Appendix
We also welcome submissions of original data for potential inclusion in the xSub archive. For details, please see the data upload page.
The co-directors of the xSub project are:
Yuri M.
Zhukov, University of Michigan
Christian
Davenport, University of Michigan
Our chief data scientist is Nadiya Kostyuk, University of Michigan.
xSub is grateful for support received from the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, and the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and to our many contributors and partners.