README file International Terrorism: Attributes of Terrorist Events, 1968-2013 (Interate 3) Author: Mickolus, Edward F. EDS Study Number: 1385 Note:common files (incidence of terrorism) last updated September 2013 skyjack and hostage files last updated October 2006. in data subdirectory: bytes common_1968to2012.dta 931,083 Combined Stata datasets - 1968 to 2012 common_1968to2012.xls 4,010,496 Combined Excel datasets - 1968 to 2012 fate1978to1991.dta 21,376 fate1978to1991.xls 144,896 hostage1978to2006.dta 97,484 hostage1978to2006.xls 435,712 skyjack1978to1991.dta 16,766 skyjack1978to1991.xls 86,016 terrorist_groups.dta 211,377 list of codes assigned in the commonfile to terrorist_groups.xls 54,772 terrorist groups matched to the goups' names; information taken from the 2012 Iterate Codebook in doc subdirectory: common_codebook_2012.doc Codebook for just COMMON data (1968-2011) format - Word fate3.cbk Codebook for just FATE data format - Plain text hostage3.cbk Codebook for just HOSTAGE data format - Plain text skyjack3.cbk Codebook for just SKYJACK data format - Plain text in program subdirectory: