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 = Darknet Market Trade of Three Plant-Based Drug Types =
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This data release provides contry-level data about the global production, 
darknet trade, and consumption of three plant-based drugs: cannabis, cocaine, 
and opiates.

This is a companion release for our publication:
  Martin Dittus, Joss Wright, Mark Graham (2018). Platform Criminalism – The 
  'Last-Mile' Geography of the Darknet Market Supply Chain. ACM The Web 
  Conference 2018, Lyon.

The paper includes further details about our data collection process.
An open access version is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.10068


We provide one CSV file per drug type. 
Each file contains the following columns:

ISO3 - an ISO 3166 country code (the primary key for this record)
Vendors - number of darknet vendors of this drug type in this country
Items - number of darknet listings of this drug type in this country
Reviews - number of darknet buyer reviews after purchases
Consumption - population prevalence of this drug in 2015
SeizedProduction - drug seizures of this drug in 2010-2015, by producer country

We include the original and standardised values for each variable. 

The drug consumption and production data was published in:
  World Drug Report 2017. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),
  United Nations Publication New York, NY.
  https://www.unodc.org/wdr2017/


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Martin Dittus, Joss Wright, Mark Graham
Oxford, United Kingdom in February 2018

For further information about our research, visit:
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/economic-geog-darknet/
https://twitter.com/OIIDarknet