I share here some software and datasets I’ve created or cleaned that may be useful to other researchers.
Packages
tvsc
Language: Stata
Description: Stata command to generate covariate balance tables in a publication-ready format.
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eleccionesNic
Language: R
Description: R package to access presidential election results in Nicaragua from 1990 to 2006.
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Data Repositories
National Police of Nicaragua
Description: Scraped official reports with information on crime types, complaints, and solved cases (1980–2019) at the department level. First publicly available tidy dataset on Nicaraguan crime.
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Instituto de Medicina Legal
Description: Scraped official reports on violence typologies and total cases by medical jurisdiction.
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COVID-19 Nicaragua (Observatorio Ciudadano)
Description: Scraped non-official COVID-19 reports from Observatorio Ciudadano with case counts and deaths at national and department level.
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Nicaraguan Rulers
Description: Hand-coded dataset of Nicaraguan rulers from 1508 to 2020. Repository:
Nicaraguan Population — 18th and 19th Century
Description: Digitized historical population data from archival sources for the 1700s and 1800s.
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Political Prisoners Dataset (Apr 2018 – Apr 2019)
Description: Data on individuals imprisoned during the Nicaraguan protests. Based on public reports from Comité Pro Liberación de Presas y Presos Políticos.
Data files:
RDS | Stata | CSV
Extra: Translated Documents
Best Practices for Data and Code Management
Description: Spanish translation of IPA’s “Best Practices for Data and Code Management”.
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