Welcome to this online version of the NIIS, the database developed at the Ostrom Workshop.
During my stay at the Workshop in 2010 I cleaned and repaired this database. Finally, here it
is online, so that anyone can work with it.
Thanks to Elinor Ostrom and Julie England for the help.
I would also like to mention the other researchers that are currently working on or have been
working with the NIIS: Elinor Ostrom, Ganesh Shivakoti, Marty Anderies, Miran Bozicevic, Elicia
Ratajczyk, Shui Yan Tang, Wai Fung Lam, Atul Pokharel, .
Check out their work with the NIIS. You can find their publications at the Digital Library of the Commons.
Please take also a look at the Common Pool Resource Database (CPR), which is available online
at Arizona University here.
The NIIS database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The structure of the database is as follows:
| Name of table | Number of cases | Number of variables |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 104 | 52 |
| Districts | 236 | 1 |
| Document | 165 | 4 |
| Location | 255 | 22 |
| Operational level | 255 | 135 |
| Oprules1 | 259 | 34 |
| Oprules2 | 260 | 57 |
| Orginven | 314 | 9 |
| Resource | 256 | 75 |
| Organizational structure | 256 | 90 |
| Screener | 48 | 30 |
| Subgrp | 261 | 50 |
| Timerel | 264 | 7 |
You can find all the tables of the NIIS below: