Colombian Homicide Rates and Educational Inequality, 1999–2017

Colombian national mortality data from 1999 to 2017, used to examine long-term trends in homicide rates and socioeconomic disparities. The dataset, authored by Ivan Arroyave and shared under CC-BY-4.0, applies age-standardized rates, the Relative Index of Inequality (RII), and Joinpoint regression. It shows homicide rates declined substantially for men and women, but gaps in lethal violence by educational attainment widened for most of the study period.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term homicide rate trends based on national mortality data from 1999–2017.
• Assessing socioeconomic disparities in lethal violence based on the Relative Index of Inequality (RII) and educational attainment.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of security policies based on age-standardized homicide rates for men and women.
• Modeling changes in violence inequality over time based on Joinpoint regression analysis.

Strengths

• Covers a 19-year time span (1999–2017) for longitudinal analysis.
• Uses age-standardized rates and the Relative Index of Inequality (RII) for robust disparity measurement.
• Explicitly analyzes trends for both men and women.

Limitations

• Dataset is small (133.2 KB), suggesting limited raw data or a processed summary.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ivan Arroyave via figshare.

Collection Method

Analysis of national mortality data, applying age-standardized rates, RII, and Joinpoint regression.

Time Range

1999–2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 06:03:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia