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Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 5022

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:5022
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05022
 
Title:World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, 1961-1963
 
Principal Investigator(s):Bruce M. Russett
 
  Karl Deutsch
 
  Hayward Alker
 
  Harold Lasswell
 
Series:World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:Russett, Bruce M., Karl Deutsch, Hayward Alker, and Harold Lasswell. WORLD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INDICATORS, 1961-1963 [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1968. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05022
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection, the first edition in the World Handbook series, comprises interval-level social, political, economic, and demographic indicators for 141 countries in the period 1961-1963. Information is provided for the size of the country, the number of years independent, total population, population per square kilometer, gross national product (GNP), gross capital formation as a percentage of the GNP, government revenue and expenditure, foreign trade, employment in industry and in agriculture, degree and annual increase of urbanization, and voting characteristics. Other variables provide information on security, public enterprise, military personnel and expenditure on defense, domestic group violence, and votes in national elections for political parties such as the Communist and Socialist parties, religious parties, and noncommunist secular parties as percentage of total votes. Other variables provide information on population characteristics such as the number of births and deaths per 1,000, live births per 1,000, life expectancy at birth, income distribution, percentage of population of working age, Roman Catholics, Christians, and Moslems as a percentage of the population, immigrants and emigrants per 1,000 population, percentage of literate population aged 15 and above, enrollment in primary and secondary schools, index of achievement motivation, marriages per 1,000 population aged 15-44, and inhabitants per physician and per hospital bed. Additional variables provide information on daily newspaper circulation, radios and televisions owned, cinema attendance per 1,000 population, private consumption, and the distribution of agricultural land.
 
Subject Term(s):agricultural production, education, heath care, political ideologies, political parties, political violence, population dynamics, religious denominations, urbanization
 
Geographic Coverage:Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China (Peoples Republic), Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea (North), Korea (South), Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Global
 
Time Period:1961 - 1963
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 

Methodology

Sample:A total of 141 countries considered significant in comparative or international politics.
 
Data Source:United Nations agencies, official publications of national governments, special studies, scholarly monographs and publications, and nongovernmental research organizations publications
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-10
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, 1961-1963
 

 

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