First Year of Dutch Colonial Rule, mean

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Date
Value labels	YYYY = First year under Dutch colonialism NA = Never a Dutch colony
Technical name	col_start_netherlands_mean
Category	Violent Conflicts and Colonial Dependencies
Label	First Year of Dutch Colonial Rule, mean date version
Related indicators

First year during which country was colonized by the Netherlands. Based on mean date aggregation.

Coding rules

year, YYYY format. The average across all available sources for the starting year of colonial rule.

Citation: Becker, Bastian, 2019, "Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT)", [1], Harvard Dataverse, V2

Related publications: related publications

Project manager(s): project managers

Data release: data release

Revisions: revisions

sources