💄 famines: metadata descriptions

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= Dataset garden/wpf/2025-01-17/famines_by_place
  = Table famines_by_place
    ~ Column decadal_famine_deaths (changed metadata)
-       -   Famines are assessed based on severity, magnitude, and duration. Magnitude, measured as the total number of excess deaths, was used to determine inclusion in the catalogue. A threshold of 100,000 deaths was applied due to limited demographic research on proportional death rate increases.
+       +   Famines were included in the catalogue based on the total number of excess deaths (magnitude), not the percentage of the population affected. A minimum threshold of 100,000 deaths was set because there is limited research on how famines impacted death rates relative to population size. This means famines with at least 100,000 deaths are included, regardless of the total population of the affected area.
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
-       - description_processing: |-
-       -   The deaths were assumed to be evenly distributed over the duration of each famine, except for the famine in China between 1958 and 1962, where the source provides a year-by-year breakdown of mortality.
    ~ Column wpf_authoritative_mortality_estimate (changed metadata)
-       -   Famines are assessed based on severity, magnitude, and duration. Magnitude, measured as the total number of excess deaths, was used to determine inclusion in the catalogue. A threshold of 100,000 deaths was applied due to limited demographic research on proportional death rate increases.
+       +   Famines were included in the catalogue based on the total number of excess deaths (magnitude), not the percentage of the population affected. A minimum threshold of 100,000 deaths was set because there is limited research on how famines impacted death rates relative to population size. This means famines with at least 100,000 deaths are included, regardless of the total population of the affected area.
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
-       - description_processing: |-
-       -   The deaths were assumed to be evenly distributed over the duration of each famine, except for the famine in China between 1958 and 1962, where the source provides a year-by-year breakdown of mortality.
= Dataset garden/wpf/2025-01-17/famines_by_trigger
  = Table famines_by_trigger
    ~ Column decadal_famine_deaths (changed metadata)
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
    ~ Column famine_deaths (changed metadata)
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
= Dataset garden/wpf/2025-01-17/total_famines_by_year_decade
  = Table total_famines_by_year_decade
    ~ Column decadal_famine_deaths (changed metadata)
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
    ~ Column decadal_famine_deaths_rate (changed metadata)
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
    ~ Column famine_deaths (changed metadata)
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.
    ~ Column famine_deaths_per_rate (changed metadata)
+       +   - |-
+       +     WPF coded the most credible estimate of the number of deaths across sources. If there were several equally credible estimates, WPF used their median.
+       +   - |-
+       +     The 1910–1919 famine in British Somaliland and the African Red Sea Region (Sudan, Northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti) is treated as a single event because the 100,000+ mortality estimate applies to the entire region, not individual areas.
+       +   - |-
+       +     For the Ottoman Empire (1894–1896), East Africa (1896–1900), and the combined Somaliland–African Red Sea Region famine (1910–1919), the 100,000 death estimate is a **minimum**, meaning the actual death toll was likely higher.


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