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This codebook is organized as follows:
PART I: outlines case identifiers.
PART II: includes contested states’ lifecycle indicators, such as those capturing their emergence, livelihood, and death. This part also includes similar indicators on the respected parent states.
PART III: includes indicators that capture various aspects of the stateness of contested states, such as their domestic institutional and bureaucratic set-up, among others. This part also includes similar indicators on the respected parent states.
PART IV: includes indicators on contested states’ territorial characteristics, such as their size, actual area under control, border length, territorial contiguity, and others. This part also includes similar indicators on the respected parent states.
PART V: includes demographic indicators of contested states and their respected parent states.
PART VI: includes economic indicators of the respected parent states.
PART VII: includes indicators on military capacities of both contested states and their respected parent states.
PART VIII: includes several conflict-related indicators where either contested states or their respected parent states have been engaged in.
PART IX: includes indicators on various forms and types of external support that contested states have received
PART X: includes indicators on various international missions or other forms of foreign presence in contested states.
PART XI: includes indicators on contested states’ international legitimacy.
PART XII: includes indicators on the attention paid to contested states by the international community, namely the ways these entities have featured in different international fora, such as the UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, and several other UN-related agencies.
PART XIII: includes some other indicators.
PART XIV: outlines the transformed versions of some of the existing indicators mentioned in the previous parts. Transformed data, such as categorized, normalized, and/or rescaled versions of the continuous indicators, are provided to support some research contexts where such transformed indicators can be more useful. The transformed indicators can also be useful when building indicators of a higher order of abstraction (higher level of aggregation) by both arithmetic addition, subtraction, division, or multiplication, and set addition and multiplication.
PART XV: outlines several indicators of a higher order of abstraction that are aggregated by combining some of the existing indicators mentioned in the previous part to capture certain conceptual phenomena.