SIEVCAC: Selective Assassination Cases in the Colombian Armed Conflict

Sistema de Información de Eventos de Violencia del Conflicto Armado SIEVCAC provides data on victimizing events for the violence type 'AS Asesinatos Selectivos' (Selective Assassinations). The dataset is sourced from www.datos.gov.co and includes a cut-off date of 30-09-2024. It contains columns describing events, victims, perpetrators, locations, and related incidents.

Use Cases

• Geospatial analysis of violent events using latitud-longitud, Departamento, and Municipio columns.
• Temporal trend analysis of selective assassinations using Año, Mes, and Día columns.
• Profiling incidents and perpetrators using columns like Presunto Responsable, Modalidad, and Tipo de Armas.
• Analyzing victim demographics and impacts using Total de Víctimas del Caso, Lesionados Civiles, and Violencia Basada en Género columns.

Strengths

• Includes detailed geospatial coordinates (latitud-longitud) for precise location mapping.
• Contains over 25 columns covering event details, perpetrators, victims, and simultaneous occurrences.
• Data is structured with unique identifiers (ID Caso, ID Caso Relacionado) for linking related records.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Time Range

Data includes a cut-off date of 30-09-2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 16:55:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, indicated by columns like Departamento, Municipio, and Código DANE de Municipio.