Raw data is in the externals/ folder. GDELT 2.0 was accessed through Google BigQuery with the .sql scripts and further processed with Stata .do files. Clean data is save in output/ folder.
The main output table is output/gov2gov-events-by-month.csv
| Variable name | Description |
|---|---|
| Actor1CountryCode | ISO-3166-1 3-letter code of initiator country |
| Actor2CountryCode | ISO-3166-1 3-letter code of receiving country |
| YearMonth | Date in YYYY-MM format |
| Events3 | Number of events expressing intent to cooperate |
| Events4 | Number of visits and negotiations |
| Events5 | Number of diplomatic events |
| Events6 | Number of events expressing material cooperation |
| Mentions3 | Number of news mentions expressing intent to cooperate |
| Mentions4 | Number of news mentions of visits and negotiations |
| Mentions5 | Number of news mentions of diplomatic events |
| Mentions6 | Number of news mentions expressing material cooperation |
Institutions of the European Union are coded under country code EUR.
This data is being developed as part of the RESPECT project supported by the European Commission.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770680.
Please cite as
Koren, Miklós, Fiorini, Matteo and Santi, Filippo. 2020. "European Gov2Gov Cooperation Data." https://github.com/ceumicrodata/gov2gov-cooperation
All text and figures (*.md, *.txt, *.tex, *.pdf) are CC-BY-4.0. All code (*.sql, *.do, Makefile) are subject to the 3-clause BSD license. All derived data (output/*) are subject to Open Database License. Please respect to copyright and license terms of original data vendors (externals/*).
The GDELT Project. 2020. “Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) 2.0.” https://www.gdeltproject.org/data.html.