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[QUERENT] Crowd Counting Consortium

[SYSTEM] The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) is a joint research project that tracks and collects public data on political protests, marches, rallies, strikes, and acts of civil disobedience across the United States. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHrOzAV8kN1TO5Yh85LFJ5h5lUSDPjWobOBjAFOTuPAzR_uI7KN5RCKDEf5TGgbWj1Q6x9wlVxIuZwAuPVpq55a45Gw9bZefOrq9uTif1jMmUgZNeBg5Pzv3HJrQpwQDxmeGXMnCjLBCagYorHv0yT63KQ), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESiAEB6zswFfSlmKyGJ2KX4jWwoV7H-JEWtuTCb_lNCKVTi9i-apDFsUdB_5CzDINScyvirme01Asewc5KTfo0Wyp11QLqWX0P_vvsXhL3zYq9ClGSJ_Gr4fULuWpO2dWpMbthGl7dh0YkNDs29GTyLUpMZdS4gQovbDOfiSnpa5v46i_na_-wUIct)]
Key Details

* Leadership & Origin: Co-founded in 2017 by Erica Chenoweth (Harvard University) and Jeremy Pressman (University of Connecticut) following the Women's March on Washington. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHrOzAV8kN1TO5Yh85LFJ5h5lUSDPjWobOBjAFOTuPAzR_uI7KN5RCKDEf5TGgbWj1Q6x9wlVxIuZwAuPVpq55a45Gw9bZefOrq9uTif1jMmUgZNeBg5Pzv3HJrQpwQDxmeGXMnCjLBCagYorHv0yT63KQ), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESiAEB6zswFfSlmKyGJ2KX4jWwoV7H-JEWtuTCb_lNCKVTi9i-apDFsUdB_5CzDINScyvirme01Asewc5KTfo0Wyp11QLqWX0P_vvsXhL3zYq9ClGSJ_Gr4fULuWpO2dWpMbthGl7dh0YkNDs29GTyLUpMZdS4gQovbDOfiSnpa5v46i_na_-wUIct)]
* Institutional Home: Operated in partnership with the [Nonviolent Action Lab](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHrOzAV8kN1TO5Yh85LFJ5h5lUSDPjWobOBjAFOTuPAzR_uI7KN5RCKDEf5TGgbWj1Q6x9wlVxIuZwAuPVpq55a45Gw9bZefOrq9uTif1jMmUgZNeBg5Pzv3HJrQpwQDxmeGXMnCjLBCagYorHv0yT63KQ) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHrOzAV8kN1TO5Yh85LFJ5h5lUSDPjWobOBjAFOTuPAzR_uI7KN5RCKDEf5TGgbWj1Q6x9wlVxIuZwAuPVpq55a45Gw9bZefOrq9uTif1jMmUgZNeBg5Pzv3HJrQpwQDxmeGXMnCjLBCagYorHv0yT63KQ)]
* Scope: Systematically logs public, nonviolent (and broader political) crowd events across all U.S. states and territories with no minimum size requirement. This includes historic movements such as the 2017 Women's March, 2018 March for Our Lives, 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, campus encampments, and subsequent political demonstrations. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWgHrOzAVg5LY1B-6Ws7G8oEkIf675mhVtLnEXZzHaVlGGGsQy13xQUyRQVbcpizUhMrRa47A6POift2AJm6_1IbXjnrBSxygc9Pc7O2jXwtR5b7gHFvDemT6RA), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESaAHrOzAVQKxivcpf7Y7O0njXXE4Iw6Y5mvtzO9wGguOoMtJOujC4be_lw6BP7ROvkpr7REE35f0UktAY4letclLQ45SoKsXEP3lN19X0y9006CCu8C80WAEMICxgF4pwDp8B0A7OaZD6), [3](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHrOzAV8kN1TO5Yh85LFJ5h5lUSDPjWobOBjAFOTuPAzR_uI7KN5RCKDEf5TGgbWj1Q6x9wlVxIuZwAuPVpq55a45Gw9bZefOrq9uTif1jMmUgZNeBg5Pzv3HJrQpwQDxmeGXMnCjLBCagYorHv0yT63KQ)]
* Scale: The project has tracked hundreds of thousands of individual demonstrations and rallies across the U.S. since 2017. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESUwHrOzAVDuDllU3GNIjzsyj_WQCJzvKHG5lzfa4am5peE4Y2vq4yza3KuA09e4qz4rQMjdjGx9PzHQkOQkigaFrDve5YrIeZwb7DQS3BDzTSmQOf)]

Accessing the Data

* Monthly Data: Published regularly on Harvard Dataverse. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEScwHrOzAV8kN1TO5Yh85LFJ5h5lUSDPjWobOBjAFOTuPAzR_uI7KN5RCKDEf5TGgbWj1Q6x9wlVxIuZwAuPVpq55a45Gw9bZefOrq9uTif1jMmUgZNeBg5Pzv3HJrQpwQDxmeGXMnCjLBCagYorHv0yT63KQ)]
* Weekly/Compiled Updates: A compiled and augmented version of the dataset is updated weekly on Wednesdays via the Nonviolent Action Lab GitHub Repository. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWQHrOzAVXTIP9tfHF_0FOMCLBoCXrH3ye6nAmQSoMCR-cX3y5nqMPPdwbNedaRUjvciVGY64IK2wzkqsVbVs5F-kun9u-Zm1-3_8VtAKzkGUf2ZPXbx00zRF)]
* Interactive Tools: You can explore data visuals and project updates directly through the [Counting Crowds Website](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWQHrOzAVXTIP9tfHF_0FOMCLBoCXrH3ye6nAmQSoMCR-cX3y5nqMPPdwbNedaRUjvciVGY64IK2wzkqsVbVs5F-kun9u-Zm1-3_8VtAKzkGUf2ZPXbx00zRF). [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWQHrOzAVXTIP9tfHF_0FOMCLBoCXrH3ye6nAmQSoMCR-cX3y5nqMPPdwbNedaRUjvciVGY64IK2wzkqsVbVs5F-kun9u-Zm1-3_8VtAKzkGUf2ZPXbx00zRF)]

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