diff --git a/terrorism/README.md b/terrorism/README.md index 137d05d..11d90bd 100644 --- a/terrorism/README.md +++ b/terrorism/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This directory contains data, code and charts behind the story [The Rise Of Religiously Inspired Terrorism In France](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-rise-of-religiously-inspired-terrorism-in-france/). -The data source is the [Global Terrorism Database](http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/) (GTD). Raw data files from the GTD were retrieved on November 13, 2015; however, the raw data can not be made public. The data is freely available at the GTD [website](http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/). Please see the GTD codebook -- the file `GTD_Codebook_2015Final.pdf` -- for more information. Also included in this repo are two files from the GTD: the `Terms of Use.pdf` and `GTD Distribution letter 2015.pdf`. +The data source is the [Global Terrorism Database](http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/) (GTD). Raw data files from the GTD were retrieved on November 13, 2015; however, the raw data can not be made public. The data is freely available at the GTD [website](http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/). Please see the GTD codebook -- the file `GTD_Codebook_2015Final.pdf` -- for more information. Note: incident-level data for the year 1993 does not exist in the GTD database. However, in appendenix II of the codebook, GTD provides country-level summary statistics for that year; that data is included in the file `country_stats_1993_appendix2.csv`.