UCDP Georeferenced Event Data: Individual Conflict Events in El Salvador

UCDP's most disaggregated dataset covers individual events of organized violence, with each event occurring at a specific time and place. Events are geo-coded to the level of individual villages and have temporal durations disaggregated to single days. The dataset is documented in the Journal of Peace Research and a codebook from Uppsala University.

Use Cases

• Modeling conflict intensity and spread based on geo-coded event locations.
• Analyzing temporal patterns of violence based on daily event durations.
• Conducting sub-national risk assessments based on village-level event data.
• Validating or supplementing other conflict datasets with disaggregated event records.

Strengths

• Data is the most disaggregated from UCDP, with events recorded individually.
• Events are geo-coded to the village level and have daily temporal precision.
• Methodology is documented in peer-reviewed research (Journal of Peace Research, 2013).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to the source collection.

Provenance

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from news reports, NGO records, and other conflict monitoring sources.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 14:28:33.993050; freshness should be verified.

Geography

El Salvador.