Metadata record for Dimensionality of Nations Project: Nation Attribute Data, 1950-1965 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License . 2013-05-19 Dimensionality of Nations Project: Nation Attribute Data, 1950-1965 5020 10.3886/ICPSR05020.v1 Rummel, Rudolph J. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1984-05-10 Rummel, Rudolph J. DIMENSIONALITY OF NATIONS PROJECT: NATION ATTRIBUTE DATA, 1950-1965. ICPSR version. Compiled by University of Hawaii, Dimensionality of Nations Project. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05020.v1 bureaucracy electoral systems energy production exports foreign aid government government expenditures Gross National Product imports internal political conflict national economy nations party membership political change political opposition political parties political power political systems socioeconomic indicators IDRC.VI IDRC.I IDRC.II ICPSR.XVI.B This study contains data on the political, economic, religious, ecological, and demographic characteristics of 113 nations in the years 1950, 1955, 1960, 1963, and 1965. Originally collected by the Dimensionality of Nations (DON) Project at the University of Hawaii, these data provide information on political regime characteristics, such as the number of political parties, electoral system, political leadership, the nature of the political system, horizontal power distribution, communist party membership, the legitimacy of present government, the legality of government change, freedom of opposition, major government crises, bureaucracy, and the occurrence of assassinations, riots, general strikes, protests, domestic violence, demonstrations, threats and accusations, and purges. Economic variables focus on gross national product (GNP), aid received from the United States and Russia, national income, government expenditures, government balance of payment, investments, imports and exports, energy production and consumption, agricultural production, and the economically active population. Demographic variables include age, education, literacy, religion, ethnicity, marital status, immigrants, and migrants. Other variables provide information on the nations' bloc memberships, United Nations' assessment of the nations, air distance of the nations from the United States, number of nongovernmental organizations, number of the nations' diplomats expelled or recalled, age of the nations, and the nations' geography. 1950 1965 Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Benin Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China (Peoples Republic) Colombia Congo (Democratic Republic) Costa Rica Cuba Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic East Timor Easter Island Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Finland France Gabon Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea Haiti Honduras Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Korea (North) Korea (South) Laos Lebanon Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Mali Mauritania Mexico Morocco Myanmar Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Pakistan Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Rwanda Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Slovakia Somalia Soviet Union Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam (Socialist Republic) Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe Global A total of 113 nations with populations greater than 750,000 that were independent at least two years by 1965. aggregate data (1) Russett, Bruce M., David J. Singer, and Melvin Small. "National Political Units in the Twentieth Century: A Standardized List." THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW 62, 3 (1968), 935-950, and (2) University of Hawaii. Department of Political Science. "The Dimensionality of Nations Project." RESEARCH REPORT 65. (1) The data map is provided as an ASCII text file, and 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. (2) See also the related collection, DIMENSIONALITY OF NATIONS PROJECT: ATTRIBUTES OF NATIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF NATION DYADS, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5409). Ann Arbor, Mi.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Additional special permissions, where applicable, are described in the restrictions field.

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