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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 5030 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 5030 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Economic and Social Indicators for Eighteen Latin American Nations, 1960-1971 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Agency for International Development |
| Bibliographic Citation: | U.S. Agency for International Development. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INDICATORS FOR EIGHTEEN LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS, 1960-1971 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection contains economic, social, and demographic information for 18 Latin American nations in the period 1960-1971. Data are provided for gross national product (GNP), gross investment, domestic revenues, tax revenues, expenditures, price index, electric power production, agricultural production, and membership in consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperatives. Data are also provided for population characteristics, such as total population, school enrollment, student-teacher ratio, persons-physician ratio, persons-nurse ratio, and persons-hospital bed ratio. |
| Subject Term(s): | agricultural production, economic indicators, government expenditures, Gross National Product, population characteristics, price indexes, public health, social indicators, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela |
| Geographic Coverage: | Global |
| Time Period: | 1960 - 1971 |
| Data Type: | aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | A total of 18 Latin American nations in the period 1960-1971. |
| Data Source: | (1) Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Statistics and Reports Division, and (2) United States Bureau of the Census. International Demographic Statistics Center |
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 |
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