DATA

AIRWAR

The first data collection project by the Yemen Data Project focuses on the aerial bombardments in Yemen from March 2015 to date and includes detailed data on all air raids conducted by the military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which also includes participation by Egypt, Morocco (until 2019), Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait, Qatar (until 2017) and Bahrain. The military coalition is backed by the United States and the United Kingdom, amongst other western nations, with the U.S. providing intelligence and logistical support and the UK supporting the coalition in every practical way short of engaging in combat. Both the U.S. and the UK have military personnel deployed at the Saudi command-and-control centre for coalition airstrikes.

The dataset lists the date of incident, geographical location, type of target, target category and sub-category, and, where known, time of day. Each incident indicates a stated number of air raids, which in turn may comprise multiple air strikes. It is not possible to generate an average number of air strikes per air raid as these vary greatly, from a couple of airstrikes up to several dozen per air-raid. YDP’s dataset records the unverified numbers of individual air strikes that constitute a recorded single air raid. For more explanation on air raids and air strikes please see our methodology.

Given the open source collection of the data, geolocation information of air raids is not available. However, location details are broken down from governorate to district and then area.

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The data is published in csv-format. Import it to Microsoft Office Excel, LibreOffice Calc or Google Spreadsheet to view it in a readerfriendly format.

POLITICAL VIOLENCE

Separate to our air raids data collection, as part of our work to enhance conflict monitoring and data sharing, YDP collaborates with the Armed Conflict and Events Data Project on countrywide political violence data, collecting the dates, actors, types of violence, locations, and fatalities of all reported political violence and protest events across Yemen.

This work is included in ACLED's Yemen data.

This extensive monitoring effort has allowed ACLED and YDP to provide the most comprehensive coverage of political violence across Yemen.

USE OF DATA

The Yemen Data Project is a not-for-profit organization which produces data for the purpose of increasing transparency and promoting accountability. With that mission in mind, our data is freely available to use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You are therefore free to reuse the data but we ask that you please cite the Yemen Data Project and link back to the dataset or our website.