Gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/words.pdf. IDEA - Virtual Research Associates, Inc. Project History The Integrated Data for Event Analysis (IDEA) event form typology is a conceptual framework for use in coding social, economic and political events data. The IDEA framework is an extension and a refinement of, and is congruent with the World Event Interaction Survey or WEIS.
Like WEIS, IDEA is nominally scaled, but unlike WEIS the IDEA event forms are not bound to state actors, though some event forms are intrinsically bound to specific actors like armed forces when they engage in a battle. To be clear, the WEIS event forms, reduction in relations, represents a diplomatic behavior and therefore represents diplomatic action, but the IDEA equivalent, reduce routine activity, refers to such reductions by individuals, groups or organizations, both state and non-state. The extension of WEIS is represented by 2-digit residual categories beginning with number 23, and extending to 99. Note: The following links are optimized for Internet Explorer. Goldstein Scale for WEIS Data. Goldstein Scale for WEIS Data The first column lists scale values for the intensity of conflict or cooperation inherent in different types of international events. Construction of the scale is described in Joshua S. Goldstein, "A Conflict-Cooperation Scale for WEIS Events Data," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 36, 2 (June 1992).
The second column lists the nominal codes attached to each type of international event, originally described in World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) Project, 1966-1978, Charles McClelland (principal investigator). ICPSR Study 5211 (1978). The time series in mets7999.sav are combined measures of conflict and cooperation. World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) Project, 1966-1978. Principal Investigator(s): McClelland, Charles Summary: The WEIS Project dataset is a record of the flow of action and response between countries (as well as non-governmental actors, e.g., NATO) reflected in public events reported daily in the New York Times from January 1966 through December 1978.
The WEIS Project began under the direction of Charles McClelland at the University of Southern California as a research project on international system characteristics and processes. The unit of analysis in the dataset is the event/interaction, referring t... (more info) The WEIS Project dataset is a record of the flow of action and response between countries (as well as non-governmental actors, e.g., NATO) reflected in public events reported daily in the New York Times from January 1966 through December 1978. McClelland, Charles. Persistent URL: Export Citation: RIS (generic format for RefWorks, EndNote, etc.)
Time Period: Data Types: event/transaction data. Package countrycode. Cran.r-project.org/web/packages/events/vignettes/events. Package events.