World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III : 1948-1982 / Charles Lewis Taylor, David A. Jodice.

Format:

• Datafile

Contributor:

• Taylor, Charles Lewis.
• Jodice, David A.
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

• ICPSR (Series) ; 7761.
• ICPSR ; 7761
• World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators Series ; 7761

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Social history--20th century--Statistics.
• Social indicators.
• Political indicators.
• Social history.

Genre:

• Statistics.
• Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Second ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• data file

Summary:

This third edition of the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators is composed of four files, one aggregate data file (Part 1), and three events data files including a daily events political data file (Part 2), an annual political events data file (Part 3), and a new quarterly political events data file (Part 4). The aggregate data file (Part 1) is based upon data from the base years of 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, and 1975. It contains political, economic, and social data and rates of change for 155 countries. Data are provided for central government current revenue and expenditure, gross national product and growth rates, imports, exports, and trade as a percentage of the gross national product, total military expenditure and manpower, public education, public health expenditure, energy consumption, coal, natural gas, and petroleum reserves and production, GINI measures of inequity, income inequity, sectorial inequity, coefficient of land inequality, political and civil rights indices, political and economic discrimination, the percentage of those discriminated against and its intensity, the proportion and intensity of separatism, voting behavior, the number of registered voters and voter turnout as a percentage of the adult population, the first five largest political parties, total legislative seats, total adult and working age population, population density, percentage of population in cities, agricultural density, health and nutrition measures, consumption measures, literacy, and school enrollment. Data are also provided for the percentage of the labor force in agriculture, industry, and the services, organized labor, industrial disputes and the number of working days lost, the life expectancy for males and females, infant mortality rates, and estimated birth rates and death rates, as well as the number of scientific authors,... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07761

Contents:

Part 1: Aggregate Data, 1948-1977; Part 2: Daily Event Data, 1948-1982; Part 3: Annual Event Data, 1948-1982; Part 4: Quarterly Event Data, 1948-1982

Notes:

• Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.
• Start: 1948; and end: 1977.

Access Restriction:

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