SIEVCAC: Civilian Property Damage Cases in the Colombian Armed Conflict

Sistema de Información de Eventos de Violencia del Conflicto Armado SIEVCAC - Casos DB Daño a Bienes Civiles records victimizing events involving damage to civilian property in Colombia, with a data cut-off of September 30, 2024. The dataset is hosted by the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co on the Socrata platform. It was last updated on May 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of property damage by mapping incidents using Municipio, Departamento, and Código DANE de Municipio.
• Identify common perpetrators and their methods by correlating Presunto Responsable and Descripción Presunto Responsable with Modalidad and specific damage types like Infraestructura Educativa or Medios de Transporte.
• Temporal trend analysis of civilian property damage events using the Año and Día columns to track changes over time.
• Assess the co-occurrence of different violent acts by examining Otro Hecho Simultáneo in relation to primary property damage events.

Strengths

• Dataset includes detailed geospatial identifiers such as Municipio, Departamento, and Código DANE de Municipio for precise location analysis.
• Contains over 25 specific columns documenting the type of property damaged (e.g., Bienes Culturales y Lugares de Culto, Infraestructura Vial), responsible actors, and victim counts.
• Data is current with a recorded cut-off date of September 30, 2024, and a platform update timestamp of May 18, 2026.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official reports and registries of violent events.

Time Range

Data includes events up to September 30, 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 19:02:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia, specified by Departamento and Municipio columns.