Domestic Violence Teaching Package, 1955-1964 Markus, Gregory civil disorders economic conditions instruction instructional materials internal political conflict political violence protest demonstrations revolutions riots social protest violence ICPSR.X.A.3 IDRC.II IDRC.I This study contains a subset of the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators II data on national attributes and domestic violence for 136 nations in the period 1955-1964. The teaching package is intended to provide data for examining current theories of domestic violence and to introduce students to a number of topics in quantitative aggregate analyses. Data are provided in five-year periods for the economic, political, and social characteristics of the nations. Economic variables provide information on the gross national product (GNP), energy consumption per capita, sectorial income inequality, land inequality, and calories intake per capita. Political variables provide information on government sanctions, political executions, deaths from political violence, armed attacks, anti-government demonstrations, riots, political strikes, and the relaxation of government restrictions. Variables on social characteristics include population density, literacy rates, and the number of physicians per one million population. 1992-02-16 aggregate data 5702 10.3886/ICPSR05702.v1 Taylor, Charles L., and Michael C. Hudson. WORLD HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INDICATORS. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 1972. Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Argentina Australia Austria Barbados Belgium Benin Bolivia Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China (Peoples Republic) Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Cyprus Czechoslovakia Democratic Republic of Congo Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Finland France Gabon Gambia Germany Ghana Global Greece Guatemala Guinea Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kenya Kuwait Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Luxembourg Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Romania Rwanda Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Singapore Somalia South Africa South Korea Soviet Union Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda United Kingdom United States Upper Volta Uruguay Venezuela Vietnam (Socialist Republic) Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe 1955--1964 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/).