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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 9903 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9903 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09903 |
| Title: | National Material Capabilities Data, 1816-1985 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | J. David Singer |
| Melvin Small | |
| Series: | Correlates of War Project Series |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. NATIONAL MATERIAL CAPABILITIES DATA, 1816-1985 [Computer file]. Ann Arbor, MI: J. David Singer, University of Michigan, and Detroit, MI: Melvin Small, Wayne State University [producers], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09903 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This collection contains demographic, military, and industrial indicators for each international system member for the years 1816-1985. There are two identification variables and seven substantive variables, which include urban and total populations, military expenditure, military personnel, iron and steel production, and energy consumption. Each system member is also coded as a major or minor power for each year. |
| Subject Term(s): | armed forces, demographic characteristics, international development, industrial indicators, military expenditures, nineteenth century, population characteristics, twentieth century |
| Geographic Coverage: | Global |
| Time Period: | 1816 - 1985 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | July 1990 |
| Universe: | All countries in the world. |
| Data Type: | aggregate data |
| Data Collection Notes: | Column 13 of every record in the data file contains the numeral 3. This variable is not described in the codebook. |
Methodology | |
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: | 1993-04-09 |
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