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Terrorist Attacks, Afghanistan, January 2004 - March 2008

This dataset contains all of the attacks in Afghanistan between the beginning of 2004 until March of 2008. The dataset has been created from Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS).

Attributes Range Median Mean Standard Deviation
Month of Attack 1 - 12 7.00 6.55 3.18

Month of Attack (1=Jan, 2=Feb ect)

Country Text column (no statistics available)

Country

Number of attackers 1 - 8 1.00 1.11 0.67

Number of attackers

IED Attack 0 - 1 0.00 0.20 0.40

Ied 1=yes, 0=no

Discription of Attack Text column (no statistics available)

Description of Attack

Region of Attack Text column (no statistics available)

Region of Attack

Characteristic of Attacker 1 - 3 1.00 1.88 0.99

ns1:Characteristic of attacker

Islamic Extremist (Sunni)=1, Islamic Extremist (Unknown)=2,Unknown=3

Nationality of Attacker Text column (no statistics available)

Nationality of Attacker

Approximate date no=- yes=1 0 - 1 0.00 0.04 0.19

Approximate date of attack no=0 yes=1

Summary Text column (no statistics available)

Summary of attack

City Text column (no statistics available)

City

Oil infrastucture type 0 - 3 0.00 0.01 0.12

Pipeline=1, Oil facility (includes pumping station, distribution center, refinery, well, flow station, storage facility, complex, station, depot)=2, Tanker=3, Worker or workers (includes death, injury or kidnapping)=4, Company=5

Non-oil infrastructure 0

Assassination 0 - 1 0.00 0.00 0.06

assassination related attack no=0 yes=1

Number of Fatilities 0 - 100 1.00 1.56 3.74

Number of Fatilities

Suicide Attack 0 - 1 0.00 0.08 0.28

suicide no=0 yes=1

Oil infrastucture 0 - 1 0.00 0.00 0.04

Oil Infrastructure: 1=attack on oil infrastructure, 2=not on oil infrastructure

Energy facility 0 - 2 0.00 0.01 0.12

Energy Related: Energy Infrastructure=1, Vehicle=2, Business=3, Govnt=4, Unknown=5

Not energy related: 0

Number Wounded 0 - 97 0.00 2.04 5.43

Number Wounded

Event Type 1 - 11 1.00 2.48 1.90

ns1:EventType

Armed Attack=1, Arson/Firebombing=2, Assault=3, Bombing=4, Barricade/Hostage=5, Kidnapping=6, Near Miss/Non Attack Incident=7, Other=8, Theft=9, Threat=10,Unknown=11

Day of Attack 1 - 31 15.00 15.18 8.81

Day of the Month

damage to energy facility 1 - 99 99.00 97.99 9.91

Damage Level: 0=None, 1=Light, 2=Moderate, 3= Heavy, 4=Unknown, NA=Non energy facility

Multiple day attackmultipledays: no=- yes=1 0 - 1 0.00 0.00 0.06

multiple days: no=- yes=1

Year of Incident 2004 - 2008 2006.00 2006.24 0.97

Year of Incident

Date of Incident Text column (no statistics available)

Date of Incident

Afghanistan Provience Text column (no statistics available)

Afghanistan Provience

Latitude 30.28 - 37.55 33.44 33.45 1.53

Latitude

Facility Type Text column (no statistics available)

Facility Type

Longitude 60.88 - 71.57 67.25 67.21 2.58

Longitude

ICN Code 200458131 - 200803887 200699279.00 200674318.79 75105.77

Unique incident code