An aerial view shows Women's March participants in Washington, DC

Crowd Counting Consortium

A public interest and scholarly project to document protests and demonstrations in the United States.

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The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), a joint project of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut, collects publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, including marches, protests, strikes, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.

The CCC emerged from a collaborative effort by Jeremy Pressman and Erica Chenoweth to accurately estimate the number of people who participated in the Women’s March on Washington (and its affiliated Sister Marchers worldwide) on January 21, 2017. Upon recognizing the growing public interest in up-to-date information on crowds — and in response to requests to continue the effort beyond the Women’s March — they and their volunteer colleagues established the CCC.

For more details, see the “View + Download the Data” section below.

Meet the Team


Erica Chenoweth

Erica Chenoweth

Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment

Soha Hammam
Headshot of Soha Hammam

Soha Hammam

Nonviolent Action Lab Research Associate

Jay Ulfelder

Jay Ulfelder

Research Project Manager, Nonviolent Action Lab

 

 

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Complete Dataset

Our repository on GitHub contains a compiled and augmented version of the CCC data from all of the monthly sheets since the project’s inception in January 2017. We update this version of the dataset weekly on Wednesdays, usually no later than 4pm ET and with occasional exceptions around holidays and ends of the month. Instructions on how to access the dataset and detailed descriptions of its contents can be found on the repository’s landing page.

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March 2017 Crowd Data (view)(download in xls).

February 2017 Crowd Data (view).

January 20-31, 2017 Data not including Women’s March (view).

1/21/2017 Women’s March Data (viewdownload in xls). 

Submit a Record

We only post records that we can confirm and verify through fact-checking. When you submit a record, be sure to provide a source that is publicly verifiable (e.g. a news report, a Facebook group, links to online photos with headcounts, etc) or describe the crowd-counting techniques used by onsite onlookers (e.g. sign-ins, counting through distributing flyers/handouts, counting from photos/videos, and/or other crowd density estimation techniques).

We will never post, release, or share identifying information that has not already been reported in the public domain.

Nevertheless, we urge you to avoid including personal identifying information in your submission.

Submit a Record

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of actions are you collecting?

We collect publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, including marches, protests, demonstrations, riots, and other actions. We do not count crowds at meetings, teach-ins or academic workshops, panel discussions, fundraisers, or town halls.

What do you intend to do with these data?

Our goal is to make the aggregate data on crowd numbers publicly available for each event. We are collecting this data in the public interest and to further scholarly research.

Have your Human Research Subject boards approved this data collection?

This is a public-interest project. The University of Denver’s Office of Research Integrity and Education determined that the project does not qualify as human subjects research and therefore does not require further review or oversight by its Institutional Review Board. The University of Connecticut made a similar determination.

Where can I get the data?

Please see the links above. Explore the GitHub here.

How should I cite these data?

Please include a citation to the Crowd Counting Consortium such as: Crowd Counting Consortium, crowdcounting.org, accessed September 17, 2021.

Where does your funding come from?

Funding is made possible in part by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Alan R. Bennett and the UConn POLS Honors Bennett RA program, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Previously, we received support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York through the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and the Humility & Conviction in Public Life initiative, a project of the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute.

We have collaborated with countlove.org, a volunteer group that developed a webcrawler to identify protests and demonstrations on a daily basis.


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Crowd Counting Consortium: Monthly Review: March 2021

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Crowd Counting Consortium: Monthly Review: March 2021

The Crowd Counting Consortium recorded more than 1,800 protest events in the U.S. in March 2021, with roughly 88,000 to 125,000 participants in the events.