Colony of Britain, ever

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Binary
Value labels	0 = Never a British colony 1 = Was a British colony
Technical name	col_ever_britain
Category	Violent conflicts and colonial dependencies
Label	Colony of Britain, ever
Related indicators	Colony of Belgium, ever Colony of France, ever Colony of Germany, ever Colony of Italy, ever Colony of Netherlands, ever Colony of Portugal, ever Colony of Spain, ever

This indicator captures if at any point in the focal country's history it was a colony of Britain (=1), or not (=0).

Coding rules

For detailed coding rules see the codebook of Becker 2019.

Bibliographic info

Citation: Becker, Bastian. 2019. "Introducing COLDAT: The Colonial Dates Dataset." SOCIUM SFB 1342 Working Papers/2/2019. Bremen: SOCIUM, SFB 1342. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T9SDEW

Related publications:

Misc

Project manager(s): Bastian Becker, Nils Düpont, Carmen Cordes, Marius Bode (INF)

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

Revisions: No revisions yet

Sources

• Becker, Bastian. 2019. Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT). Harvard Dataverse, V2. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T9SDEW