World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators I and A Cross-Polity Survey: Merged Data, 1961-1963 Russett, Bruce Banks, Arthur Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research agricultural production education health care political ideologies political parties political violence population dynamics religious denominations urbanization IDRC.II IDRC.I IDRC.III IDRC.V ICPSR.XVI.B This merged data collection contains political, social, economic and demographic information for 141 selected countries in the period 1961-1963 and is also designed as a research and reference aid in the field of comparative politics. Information is provided for population size and growth rate, country size, date of independence, former colonial ruler, level of urbanization, political modernization, governmental stability, per capita gross national product (GNP), foreign trade as a percentage of the GNP, government revenues and expenditures, political leadership, character of the bureaucracy, legislature, the legal system, status of economic development, international financial status, westernization, literacy rate, degree of freedom of the press, religious configuration, and racial, religious, and linguistic homogeneity. Data are also provided for government employment, military personnel, defense expenditure, current electoral system, percentage of votes in national elections for the Communist party, religious parties, and the secular parties, regime's ideological orientation, domestic group violence, sectionalism, percentage of speakers of dominant language, private consumption, agricultural and industrial labor, index of achievement motivation, and inhabitants per doctor and hospital bed. Data on population characteristics provide information on live births and deaths per 1,000 population, population annual rate increase, percentage of students in primary and secondary education, marriages per 1,000 population, immigrants and emigrants per 1,000 population, income distribution, and Roman Catholics, Christians, and Moslems as percentage of the population. Additional variables provide information on daily newspaper circulation, radios and television ownership per 1,000 population, and cinema attendance. 1992-02-16 aggregate data 5023 10.3886/ICPSR05023.v1 The United Nations and its various agencies, official publications of national governments, special studies, and numerous monographs and other works from scholars and nongovernmental research organizations 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 Global 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 Rwanda 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 1961--1963 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).