Research Data

In the sense of good research practice, our experts share their data with the scientific community wherever possible. Learn more below about our cutting-edge research data in the fields of international relations, peace, security, and development.

Research data management is part of the GIGA’s institutional culture. It encompasses all activities related to research data and is implemented jointly by GIGA scholars and the research-supporting departments, taking place in cooperation with infrastructure partners. In order to fulfil the institutional requirements for research data management according to the guidelines of the GIGA Code for Good Research Practice, the DFG, the Leibniz Association, and other funding bodies, we are currently working on our internal processes regarding quality assurance. Since December 2017 the GIGA has had its own guidelines on handling research data, as applicable to all team members.

At the GIGA, research data is understood to be an independent output and is presented accordingly as independent publications on this page. This includes quantitative forms – such as survey data and measurement data – as well as qualitative ones, too – such as interview recordings and transcripts, field notes, or audio-visual information. Geo-referenced data, questionnaires, software, and the results of experiments and simulations can also be classified as research data. GIGA scholars generate a wide variety of research data formats, reflecting the diversity of the respective disciplines, interests, and methods represented at the Institute.

Research Data Management

Catharina Hibler (née Wasner)

Research Data Management

T. +49 (40) 42825-588 [email protected]

Dataset | 2026

Codebook and Dataset Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media (RUGAME)

The dataset Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media (RUGAME) contains 2.890 coded articles from a diverse collection of Arab media. It examines how Russian geonarratives such as multipolarity and Eurasianism are perceived in the Arab world, in particular their space-framing assumptions and the space-making processes that accompany them such as infrastructure-building.

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VZIZUE

Prof. Dr. Eckart Woertz

Director of the GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies / Editor GIGA Focus Middle East

Dima Abu Alkheir

Doctoral Researcher

Dataset | 2025

Greenfield FDI projects in Africa 2013-2020

The dataset comprises 11,233 greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) projects between 2013 and 2020 in 54 African countries.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2719

Dr. Tevin Tafese

Tabea Lakemann

Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Dataset | 2025

Vietnam Special Economic Zone Satellite Imagery Dataset

The dataset contains detailed geographic information on more than 600 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Vietnam.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2762

Dr. Tevin Tafese

Prof. Dr. Jann Lay

Van Tran

Dataset | 2024

Replication materials for: "Overcoming Barriers to Interreligious Peace: Determinants of preferences for religiously similar others in Togo and Sierra Leone"

The published data and documents provide information to replicate the analyses of the paper "Overcoming Barriers to Interreligious Peace: Determinants of preferences for religiously similar others in Togo and Sierra Leone" by Julia Köbrich, Tobias H. Stark, Borja Martinović and Seyram Adiakpo that will be published in Political Psychology.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2773

Dr. Julia Köbrich

Ass. Prof. Dr. Tobias H. Stark

Ass. Prof. Dr. Borja Martinović

Dataset | 2023

Replication files for “How vulnerable are the self-employed? Evidence from Ugandan small-scale entrepreneurs”

These do-files were used to conduct the analyses in the associated journal article. The dataset is not currently available for public use for confidentiality reasons.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2572

Tabea Lakemann

Associate

Dataset | 2023

Interreligious contact and attitudes in Togo and Sierra Leone: The role of ingroup norms and individual preferences (CATSL)

Replication data for: "Interreligious contact and attitudes in Togo and Sierra Leone: The role of ingroup norms and individual preferences" by Julia Köbrich, Borja Martinović and Tobias Stark that will be published in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2607

Dr. Julia Köbrich

Ass. Prof. Dr. Borja Martinović

Ass. Prof. Dr. Tobias H. Stark

Dr. Lisa Hoffmann

Dataset | 2022

Replication data for Introducing ScrumAdemia: An Agile Guide for Doctoral Research

Replication data for: Franco, Clara, Anna Fünfgeld, Viviana García Pinzón, Jan Klenke, Rebecca Lohmann, Désirée Reder, and Swantje Schirmer (2023), Introducing ScrumAdemia: An Agile Guide for Doctoral Research...

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5LN0TJ

Dr. Clara Franco

Anna Fünfgeld

Dr. Viviana García Pinzón

Jan Klenke

Rebecca Lohmann

Désirée Marlen Reder

Swantje Schirmer

Dataset | 2022

Replication Data for: Measuring precision precisely: A Dictionary-Based Measure of Imprecision

The files uploaded entail the material necessary to replicate the results from the article and Online appendix published in: Gastinger, M. and Schmidtke, H. (2022) ‘Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision’...

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2DACNY

Dr. Markus Gastinger

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg

Dr. Henning Schmidtke

Former Associate

Dataset | 2022

International Sanctions Termination Dataset

The International Sanctions Termination (IST) dataset is composed of the entire universe of sanctions imposed by the EU, UN, US and regional organizations in the period from 1990 to 2018, including those that were already in place by 1990 and those still ongoing...

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SVR5W7

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Hana Attia

Research Fellow / Juniorprofessorin

Dr. Julia Grauvogel

Senior Research Fellow / Research Team Spokesperson

Dataset | 2022

Justifications of Repressive Incidents in Morocco and Tunisia Dataset (JuRI)

This novel event dataset contains information on 439 repressive incidents in Morocco and Tunisia from 2000-2010. It disaggregates various dimensions of repression and its justification. The JuRI dataset is based on a compilation of publicly available human rights reports.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2438

Dr. Maria Josua

Research Fellow / Research Team Spokesperson

Dataset | 2022

Replication Data for: Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle- Income Countries

Replication Data for: Pahl, Stefan, Marcel P. Timmer, Reitze Gouma, and Pieter J. Woltjer (2022), Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle-Income Countries...

https://doi.org/10.34894/NJR5EB

Dr. Stefan Pahl

Prof. Dr. Marcel P. Timmer

Reitze Gouma

Dr. Pieter J. Woltjer

Dataset | 2022

IMISEM Dataset

The IMISEM dataset contains 828 indicators on the migration policies of 32 polities from Europe, South East Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. The IMISEM project adopts a comprehensive view of migration policy that includes both its emigrant/ emigration and immigrant/ immigration sides.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2380

Dr. Luicy Pedroza

Dr. Pau Palop García

Dr. So Young Chang

Daniel Braga Nascimento

Paula Koller

Lin Zihao

Eduardo Andres Pages Jimenez

Barbara Pilz

Neslihan Önder

Mayya Solonina

Ass. Prof. Dr. Béla Soltész

Arnaz Tejakusum

Girindra Wiratni Puspa

Dataset | 2022

Legitimation Strategies of Regional Organizations (LegRO)

In an era of increasing political challenges to global and regional organizations, it is crucial to understand how they claim legitimacy and how successful they are in this respect. Yet, we know surprisingly little about the sources and consequences of legitimation in most regional organizations worldwide. In this project, we thus map the legitimation strategies of a sample of 28 organizations between 1980 and 2019.

https://doi.org/10.7802/2450

Prof. Dr. Tobias Lenz

Dr. Henning Schmidtke

Swantje Schirmer

Dr. Niklas Krösche

Dataset | 2022

Replication Data for: Matthias Basedau, Simone Gobien & Lisa Hoffmann: Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Replication Data for Article: Basedau, Matthias, Simone Gobien, and Lisa Hoffmann (2022), Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...

Prof. Dr. Matthias Basedau

Dr. Simone Gobien

Dr. Lisa Hoffmann

Dataset | 2021

Replication Data for: Agricultural productivity and fertility rates: Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia

Data to analyze the link between agricultural productivity growth and fertility rates, using the oil palm boom in Indonesia as an empirical setting.

https://doi.org/10.3886/E150021V1

Dr. Esther Gehrke

Wageningen University

Dr. Christoph Kubitza

Research Fellow

Dataset | 2020

Replication Data for: Oversight or Representation? Public Opinion and Impeachment Resolutions in Argentina and Brazil

The files contain (quarterly and monthly) series on the number of impeachment resolutions introduced in Congress, presidential approval, economic conditions, and social protests in Argentina (1983-2017) and...

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XY51ZF

Prof. Dr. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

University of Notre Dame

Prof. Dr. Mariana Llanos

Lead Research Fellow / Editor Journal of Politics in Latin America

Dataset | 2020

Dataset to Article: Capturing Group Alignments: Introducing the Government and Armed Actors Relations Dataset (GAARD)

Dataset to Article: Otto, Sabine, Adam Scharpf, and Anita Gohdes (2020), Capturing Group Alignments: Introducing the Government and Armed Actors Relations Dataset (GAARD), in: Research and Politics…

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VEDYMM

Dr. Sabine Otto

Dr. Adam Scharpf

Prof. Dr. Anita Gohdes

Dataset | 2020

Research Data for: Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts

Research Data for Article: Haass, Felix (2020), Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts, in: Comparative Political Studies, 1-35…

Dr. Felix Haaß

Former GIGA Team member

Dataset | 2020

Replication Data for: Grauvogel, Licht and von Soest 2017 “Sanctions and Signals: How International Sanction Threats Trigger Domestic Protest in Targeted Regimes.”

Replication Data for Article: Grauvogel, Julia, Amanda A. Licht, and Christian von Soest (2017), Sanctions and Signals: How International Sanction Threats Trigger Domestic Protest in Targeted Regimes…

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QPMUKN

Amanda Licht

Dr. Julia Grauvogel

Prof. Dr. Christian von Soest

Dataset | 2020

Replication Data for “Grist to the Mill of Subversion: Strikes and Coups in Counterinsurgencies”

Replication Data for Article: Gläßel, Christian, Belén González, and Adam Scharpf (2020), Grist to the Mill of Subversion: Strikes and Coups in Counterinsurgencies, in: European Journal of…

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LZHTBE

Dr. Adam Scharpf

Christian Gläßel

Prof. Dr. Belén González

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Catharina Hibler (née Wasner)

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Codebook and Dataset Russian Geonarratives and Arab Media (RUGAME)

Greenfield FDI projects in Africa 2013-2020

Vietnam Special Economic Zone Satellite Imagery Dataset

Replication materials for: "Overcoming Barriers to Interreligious Peace: Determinants of preferences for religiously similar others in Togo and Sierra Leone"

Replication files for “How vulnerable are the self-employed? Evidence from Ugandan small-scale entrepreneurs”

Interreligious contact and attitudes in Togo and Sierra Leone: The role of ingroup norms and individual preferences (CATSL)

Replication data for Introducing ScrumAdemia: An Agile Guide for Doctoral Research

Replication Data for: Measuring precision precisely: A Dictionary-Based Measure of Imprecision

International Sanctions Termination Dataset

Justifications of Repressive Incidents in Morocco and Tunisia Dataset (JuRI)

Replication Data for: Jobs and Productivity Growth in Global Value Chains: New Evidence for Twenty-five Low- and Middle- Income Countries

IMISEM Dataset

Legitimation Strategies of Regional Organizations (LegRO)

Replication Data for: Matthias Basedau, Simone Gobien & Lisa Hoffmann: Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Replication Data for: Agricultural productivity and fertility rates: Evidence from the oil palm boom in Indonesia

Replication Data for: Oversight or Representation? Public Opinion and Impeachment Resolutions in Argentina and Brazil

Dataset to Article: Capturing Group Alignments: Introducing the Government and Armed Actors Relations Dataset (GAARD)

Research Data for: Insurgency and Ivory: The Territorial Origins of Illicit Resource Extraction in Civil Conflicts

Replication Data for: Grauvogel, Licht and von Soest 2017 “Sanctions and Signals: How International Sanction Threats Trigger Domestic Protest in Targeted Regimes.”

Replication Data for “Grist to the Mill of Subversion: Strikes and Coups in Counterinsurgencies”

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