Investigating Deception Findings in Canadian Refugee Status Rejections: Legal Inferences and Psychological Assumptions - Dataset

This set of files contains:

• the descriptive information for our data set (Excel)
• the coded data (NVivo); this data consists of decisions of the Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board that were released to the researchers under the Access to Information Act. The Board removed any personal or sensitive information that could identify the claimant or a witness before making these decisions publicly available.
• the results of the interrater reliability analysis (Excel)
• the three codebooks (Word): the 'Inferences codebook' that the coders used to identify the legal inference that decision-makers relied on to support their deception findings; the 'Support codebook' that the coders used to assess the legal weight of these inferences; and the 'Assumptions codebook' that the coders in used to capture the psychological assumptions underlying these inferences. 

Ethics Statement: This study did not require Research Ethics Board approval because it consists of legal judgments in the Public Domain.