DATA DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH - PHASE-I - INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

In 1986 developers and users of quantitative data in international and comparative politics organized to maintain, extend, and develop major datasets and to provide a stronger basis for coordinating data-related activities. National Science Foundation funding established for a three-year period Data Development for International Research. Its first phase (DDIR-I) focused on improving datasets on both national capabilities and international conflict; and generating renewed efforts to better the data collections on internation events and international political economy. DDIR-I's work, now virtually complete, augmented the quantity and quality of this national data resource and set the stage for another NSF-funded project on internation event data (DDIR-II). A final report on DDIR-II is forthcoming in summer 1994.