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The other data is in three files. All of the files are comma-delimited
UTF-8 (like ASCII but including the characters to render Serbian names).
The fields in each file are described below.
The first file is pcodes.csv. It contains
1588 records.
All places identified by interviewees were coded to specific geographic
locations in a single coding scheme. A coding scheme uses a list of place
names referenced to a unique id number and a location specified by latitude
and longitude. Since many places have the name name, a place list is not
uniquely identified by names. Instead, a code (the pcode) is assigned
to each distinct place.
We began with the geographic structure described in Policy or Panic: The
Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and Political Killings in Kosova/Kosovo,
March-June 1999 (Published by ABA/CEELI and AAAS), using 29 municipalities.
These structures omitted many places introduced in the new data acquired
for the present study. The place list available at the on-line Humanitarian Community Information
Centre (HCIC) linked place names to grid positions on a detailed atlas.
The HCIC list was used to standardize place names.
All place codes were coded for latitude and longitude. A first pass
used the U.S. National
Imaging and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) Populated Place Locations list.
The NIMA list was linked to the HCIC list using place names. When names
were ambiguous, we hand-linked the codes using municipality names and checking
places on the HCIC map and a commercial map. Using the HCIC list and map,
as well as a commercial map, we developed computer routines that confirmed
every place code's latitude and longitude against the grid coordinates in
the HCIC map. Locations which did not fall in their grid coordinate were
hand-plotted and rechecked.
The pcodes are the standard geographic references used throughout the
data in this project. In some cases, we used only the municipality codes
(mcodes) which are referenced as integers between 1 and 29 inclusive.
Note that the reference in pcodes.csv can be found by multiplying the mcode
by 1000. Much of the analysis is done at the regional level (north, east,
south, and west). The mapping of municipalities to regions can be seen in
Figure 3, page 7 of the 3 January 2002 report given to ICTY.
This map includes only 29 municipalities. Some name lists include the
municipality of Malisevo which did not exist during the rst two quarters
of 1999. During the time of the conflict in 1999, Malisevo was part of four
other municipalities.
Several cities and villages have the same names as municipalities Given
one of these name, it was not always possible to determine whether the municipality
or the village was being described. Sometimes, too, the same place name
occurred in more than one municipality (e.g., Drenovac is a city or village
name in four municipalities: Orahovac, Decani, Pristina, and Klina). Finally,
there were cases where no place coding could be assigned (e.g., "in the
mountains").
Pcodes evenly divisible by 1000 are the municipality-level codes. The
municipality of a pcode can be determined by examining the thousands' part
of the pcode. For example, the town of Alabak (pcode=18001) is in
the municipality of Podejevo (pcode=18000).
Distances between locations were calculated
using their latitude and longitude. These distances were used to help
our coders to determine whether witnesses' conflicting reports of locations
plausibly referred to the same place. Locations less than 10 kilometers
distant from each other were routinely treated as the same locations.
It contains the following fields.
| Field name |
Field description
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pcode
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The place code of this record. Note that these
are unique.
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sortname
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The name of the place in simplified latin
characters
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serbname
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The name of the place (encoded with UTF-8
characters).
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latitude
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Degrees N latitude
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longitude
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Degress E longitude
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Each record in NATO-bombing-data.csv
contains information about one reported airstrike; there are 364 reported
airsrikes in this dataset. The dataset was derived from a draft version
of the report later published by Human Rights
Watch as Appendix A of "Civilian
Deaths in the NATO Air Campaign" (February, 2000). This information
includes the minor correctons described in the AAAS corrigendum given
to the OTP on 31 October 2002. Note that only the airstrikes identified as
occurring in Kosovo were included in this dataset; the attacks in Serbia
and Montenegro were not relevant to this statistical analysis.
Field name
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Field description
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bdate
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The date on which the airstrike occurred.
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muni
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One of the 29 municipalities described in
the geographic data.
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details
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Information about the source of information
about this airstrike.
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The information in KLA-activity.csv was
coded from a database of references to activity of the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) maintained by the Kosovo investigation team of the ICTY Office of the
Prosecutor (OTP). This database was shared confidentially with AAAS as part
of our preparation of our report and the testimony
presented on 13-14 March 2002. Information confidential to the OTP pursuant
to Rule 70
of the ICTY "Rules of Procedure and Evidence" was removed before this publication.
Each record in the KLA-activity.csv file represents a report of either
Yugoslav government casualties sustained in armed confrontation between
the KLA and Yugoslav authorities (type=k), or an exchange of fire between
Yugoslav forces and KLA forces (type=b). Note that each record may contain
more than one event. For example, the report of casualties in municipality
19 on 20 March 1999 involved three people wounded, and so for that record,
count==3. Two records with type=b have count=0.5, which indicates that Serb
authorities reported that they were shot at by KLA forces, but they did not
return fire.
Field name
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Field description
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kdate
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The date on which the event occurred.
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type
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Type of event: b=battle, k=casualty
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muni
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One of the 29 municipalities described in
the geographic data.
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count
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Number of events of the type described above
(there may have been more than one in each coded report)
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Last updated: 1 November 2002 13:00 PB
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