10.3886/ICPSR00027.v1 Norwood, Douglas A. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1984 church membership congressional elections congressional voting consumer expenditures economic indicators demographic statistics federal budget federal elections federal spending government agencies government employees government expenditures government revenues income distribution labor force local government party membership political affiliation political behavior political parties population characteristics presidential elections social history social welfare state government twentieth century unemployment union membership voting behavior United States Congress 1984-05-03 1992-02-16 1929 1968 administrative records data, census data, and aggregate data 27 1 This study is a 40-year time series of social, economic, and political indicators at the national level for the United States in the period 1929-1968. The variables include data on expenditures from the federal budget by various departments, agencies, and commissions, the number of employees in the various United States departments, measures of the political characteristics of the United States Congress, such as the number of Repuplicans, Democrats, and "other" party members in the United States Senate and in the House of Representatives, business and consumer expenditures, and attributes of the population. Data are also provided on the number per 1,000 of immigrants to the United States, membership of all the religious bodies in the United States, labor union membership, total households in the United States, total civilian labor force, and the number of the unemployed. Demographic variables provide information on education, births, and death rates. The unit of analysis is the year. Variables 2-281 cover the period from 1929-1968 and Variables 282-408 cover only the period from 1947-1968.