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Deaths and Disappearances in the Pinochet Regime: A New Dataset

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  • Freire, Danilo

    (Brown University)

  • Skarbek, David
  • Meadowcroft, John
  • Guerrero, Eugenia

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This article presents a georeferenced dataset on human rights violations in the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. We coded the personal details of 2,398 victims named in the Chilean Truth Commission Report and added geographical coordinates for all identifiable atrocity locations. The dataset comprises 59 variables from 1973 to 1990 and is available as a stand-alone spreadsheet or as the `pinochet` package for `R`. As examples, we describe the major temporal and spatial patterns of the human rights abuses. We also discuss our coding procedures, show descriptive statistics, and conclude with suggestions for potential applications of the dataset.

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  • Freire, Danilo & Skarbek, David & Meadowcroft, John & Guerrero, Eugenia, 2019. "Deaths and Disappearances in the Pinochet Regime: A New Dataset," SocArXiv vqnwu, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:vqnwu
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/vqnwu
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