POLSCI 389 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Wartime Sexual Violence, Controlled Vocabulary, Count Data

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 389
• Professor: Ragnhild Nordas

Document Summary

Using quantitative data to assess conflict-related sexual violence in columbia by roth 2011 (pp. Sexual violence, particularly sexual violence related to conflict, is a classic. An elusive phenomenon is one that is both rare and unevenly distributed with respect to the population. (23) Quantitative data is any information that is susceptible to numerical measurement, whether by counting incidents ( 100 homicides ) or by obtaining a numerical measure on a scale ( she got a. In our consideration of quantitative data on human rights topics, including sexual violence, we typically will be referring to incident counts, which we refer to as. Count data, that is, information from which individual events (such as rapes) can be counted. Survey results, administrative records, national vital statistics services, qualitative narratives, Truth commission testimonies, and legal case files among many others can all be sources of quantitative data. (23) Sources must be coded in order to derive counts that represents the account correctly.