ESOC is committed to archiving event, public opinion, and spatial data on all the countries where we work. These pages provide links to a wide range of original data. If you need processed data, our colleagues at xSub have developed a "database of databases" on armed conflict and contention from dozens of different sources. xSub organizes event data into common units of analysis by space (country, province, district, grid cell, electoral constituency) and time (year, month, week, day) to enable cross-national testing of sub-national hypotheses.
2019The data is for the time period immediately around the 2010 Afghan parliamentary elections. It consists of data about Afghan security force…
Administrative Data, Event Data, Survey DataPoint, Single Country, Repeated Measurement-
2018
From 2003 to 2015, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan security forces tracked insurgent attacks by documenting the…
Event Data, Survey DataPoint, Single Country, Event -
2018
Data is based upon close elections in India (4,058 electoral terms from 2001 to 2013, covering 2,632 constituencies in 24 of the 28 states) and…
Administrative Data, Political DataSubnational, Single Country, Repeated Measurement 
2017This is a municipal level data-set for Colombia which spans between 1997-2013, with a complete panel between 2003-2006. The data includes…
Administrative Data, Financial/Price DataSubnational, Single Country, Repeated Measurement
2015This dataset includes cell tower call data records (calls per tower) across Iraq from 2004 to 2009 along with event level conflict data for Iraq…
Event DataSubnational, Single Country, Event
2013The data comes from the Pakistani Media and Muslim Communities: Identifying and Supporting Critical Thinking data project. The survey was…
Survey DataNational, Single Country
2012The Grupo de Memoria Histórica (GMH) has provided 8 datasets on different forms of violence through 2012...
Group Level Data, Political DataPoint, Subnational, Provincial and below, Repeated Measurement
2012Map of ethnic composition in Iraq. We used maps produced by Dr. Michael Izady and hosted by the Gulf/2000 Project at Columbia University's School…
Geographic Data, Group Level DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Cross Sectional
2012ESOC Project’s data on ethnic populations in Iraq, with separate data on Baghdad. We combine high-resolution population data (LandScan 2008) and…
Administrative Data, Geographic Data, Survey DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Cross Sectional
2010Data based on the Pakistani Floods, including information about flood effects surrounding the 2010 and 2011 Pakistani floods, legislative…
Geographic Data, Political Data, Survey DataSubnational, Single Country, Repeated Measurement-
2010
The BFRS Dataset contains incident-level data on political violence in Pakistan from January 1988 to December 2010 based on press reporting. The…
Event Data, Political DataPoint, Single Country, Event -
2009
The survey was conducted with a sample of 6000 adult Pakistani men and women from the four provinces of the country. The respondents were selected…
Survey DataSubnational, Single Country, Cross Sectional -
2009
Number of rural properties seized by the National Drugs Directorate by municipio-year Source: Dirección Nacional…
Administrative DataSubnational, Single Country, Repeated Measurement 
2008GIS vector dataset of ethno-religious areas in Iraq, based on "Distribution of Ethnoreligious Groups and Tribes, CIA Country Profile, 2003."and "…
Administrative Data, Geographic Data, Political DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Cross Sectional
2008ESOC Project’s data on ethnic populations in Iraq, based on "Distribution of Ethnoreligious Groups and Tribes, CIA Country Profile, 2003," and "…
Administrative Data, Geographic Data, Political DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Cross Sectional-
2007
Data on demographic measures in Iraq. We built the data from from WFP food security surveys conducted in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Food security…
Survey DataNational, Single Country, Repeated Measurement -
2006
Yearly data at the municipal level of homicides presumably related to rivalries between Drug Trafficking Organizations. The database includes…
Group Level Data, Political DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Repeated Measurement, Event 
2006Geo-referenced yearly data at the municipal level of homicides presumably related to rivalries between Drug Trafficking Organizations. The…
Geographic Data, Group Level DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Event-
2006
Yearly data at the municipal level on homicides reported in death certificates from 2006 to 2011. The certificates are issued by local offices of…
Administrative Data, Political DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Repeated Measurement 
2006Geo-referenced yearly data at the municipal level on homicides reported in death certificates from 2006 to 2011. The certificates are issued by…
Administrative Data, Geographic Data, Political DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Repeated Measurement