Interactive research data
FARC Gender Attitudes Dashboard
An interactive companion to Vierelina’s dissertation research. It presents results from an original survey of former FARC combatants in Colombia, run during fieldwork in October 2021, on attitudes toward gender roles, equality and social norms.
Because many questions follow the World Values Survey, the dashboard can place the combatants’ answers beside those of civilian respondents, and shows how answers vary across the sample.
153
former FARC combatants surveyed
Oct 2021
fieldwork in Colombia
WVS-7
questions drawn largely from the World Values Survey, Wave 7
3 views
responses, civilian comparisons and who was surveyed
Explore the Data
Pick a view, then choose a survey question from the menu. Every chart updates instantly, and the numbers behind it are available as a table or a CSV download.
01 · Responses
Response tables
Pick a survey question to see how many former combatants chose each answer, with counts, percentages and the most common response.
02 · Comparisons
Combatants and civilians
See the same question answered by civilian respondents in the World Values Survey, side by side on one scale, with the largest difference highlighted.
03 · Sample
Who was surveyed
A profile of the 153 respondents by gender, race and ethnicity, age at the time of the survey, and age at enlistment.
About the project
Why the survey matters
The survey is part of a mixed-methods project comparing gender attitudes among insurgents in Colombia and Kurdistan. It asks whether armed struggle changes individual attitudes toward gender, and whether any change lasts after demobilization. Alongside the survey, Vierelina collected interviews and analyzed political party documents; see the Research page for the full project.
Data and citation
Cite or download the data
The survey data are archived with the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Please cite the dataset when you use it:
Fernández, V. Gender Attitudes Among FARC Ex-Combatants. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025. doi:10.3886/E238425V1.
This dashboard shows summary counts only. Individual survey responses are not published on this site, and demographic groups with fewer than five people are combined to protect respondents. Civilian comparison figures come from the World Values Survey, Colombia (Wave 7, 2018; Wave 6 for the question on women and independence).
The companion dataset is a content analysis of 193 official documents from Turkish, Kurdish and Colombian political parties.