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 
2006Data on opium cultivation acreage (in hectares) from Afghan Opium Survey released by UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The data may be…
Environmental Data, Survey DataSubnational, Single Country, Repeated Measurement-
2005
Trader price of dry opium (in US$ per kg). Time series is longest for South (Nangarhar) and East (Kandahar) regions (see Afghanistan Opium Price…
Financial/Price DataPoint, Provincial and below, Repeated Measurement -
2005
Data on incidents in Afghanistan. The data are generated based on the…
Event DataPoint, Provincial and below, Event 
2001In an important paper, Nicolay Marinov, William G. Nomikos, and Josh Robbins show that democratic countries were less likely to contribute troops to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
Event Data, Political DataSubnational, Multiple Countries, Repeated Measurement
2000A map of airports and airfields in Afghanistan (2000). The data was obtained from the Afghanistan Information Management Services (…
Geographic DataPoint, Single Country, Cross Sectional
1997Trader price of dry opium (in US$ per kg). Time series is longest for South (Nangarhar) and East (Kandahar) regions, but available for more…
Financial/Price DataPoint, Provincial and below, Repeated Measurement
The original data (as of 1994) include major lakes of Afghanistan created by GfK MACON company, Germany. The data are obtained through Princeton…
Environmental Data, Geographic DataSubnational, Single Country, Cross Sectional
The original data (as of 1994) include major rivers of Afghanistan created by GfK MACON company, Germany. The data are obtained through Princeton…
Environmental Data, Geographic DataSubnational, Single Country, Cross Sectional
Road maps for Afghanistan. We used a district shapefile that we obtained from Afghanistan Information Management…
Geographic DataPoint, Single Country, Cross Sectional
A settlement map for Afghanistan. We used a district shapefile that we obtained from Afghanistan Information Management Services (…
Administrative Data, Geographic DataSubnational, Single Country, Cross Sectional
xSub /cross-sub.org/ is a repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and contention around the world. Their goal is…
xSubSubnational, Event
The district-level administrative boundary file for Afghanistan. It contains 329 districts boundaries for Afghanistan. The map was created by…
Administrative Data, Geographic DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Cross Sectional
The district-level administrative boundary file for Afghanistan. We used a district shapefile that we obtained from Afghanistan Information…
Administrative Data, Geographic DataSubnational, Provincial and below, Cross Sectional