United Nations Institutions: Activities Matrix
Peter J. Taylor and Clare Blake
The data collection was funded by the Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech (2005).
The data collection method was based upon that used for GaWC Dataset 11.
These data constitute the basis of part of the analysis in Leading world cities: empirical evaluations of urban nodes in multiple networks (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 146) and New political geographies: global civil society and global governance through world city networks (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 149).
Unlike other data sets of activity matrices, this one is not based upon a selection of network makers but includes the complete population of UN institutions. At the time of the data collection (2005) there were 78 institutions with presences in 404 places across the world. These were scored as follows:
3 = HQ
2 = ‘regional’ or ‘liaison’ office
1 = ‘field’, ‘branch’, ‘area’, ‘national’ office, location of ‘advisory’ team or ‘representative’
| Description | Files |
|---|---|
| Activity matrix of 78 UN institutions x 404 places | XLS |
| Abbreviations for UN organisations used in the database | |
| Places identified by country (many are small places for field operations) |
References
Taylor, P.J. (2005) Leading world cities: empirical evaluations of urban nodes in multiple networks, Urban Studies, 42 (9), 1593-1608.
Taylor, P.J. (2005) New political geographies: global civil society and global governance through world city networks, Political Geography, 24 (6), 703-730.
As per our data protocol, the following acknowledgement should accompany any public use of the data:
Acknowledgement: The data were produced by Peter J. Taylor and Clare Blake and constitute Dataset 23 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network (https://gawc.lboro.ac.uk/) publication of inter-city data.