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The CIRI Human Rights Data Project:

The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2004. It is designed for use by scholars and students who seek to test theories about the causes and consequences of human rights violations, as well as policy makers and analysts who seek to estimate the human rights effects of a wide variety of institutional changes and public policies including democratization, economic aid, military aid, structural adjustment, and humanitarian intervention. This first version of the dataset was made possible because of a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Political Science Division and additional financial support from the World Bank.

The CIRI Human Rights Dataset:

• Contains measures of government human rights practices.
• Contains measures of specific human rights practices, which can either be analyzed separately or combined into valid and reliable indices.
• Describes a wide variety of government human rights practices (13) including torture, workers' rights, women’s rights, and freedom of religion over a 24-year period.
• Is replicable. The detailed coding manual allows anyone to reapply our detailed coding rules to cases included in the dataset.
• Is reliable. At least two trained coders evaluated each variable for each country year. Reliability scores are available for each variable.
• Was updated and expanded in August 2005 and, pending adequate support, will be annually thereafter.
• Allows users to save their data query settings in MyCIRI for easy updating of their data when CIRI is updated.

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