nmm 22 4500 ICPSR05019 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s1984 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR05019 MiAaI MiAaI Black Africa Handbook [electronic resource] Donald Morrison , Robert Mitchell , John Paden , Michael Stevenson 1992-02-16 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1984 ICPSR 5019 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. This study contains data on the political, social, economic, religious, ecological, and demographic characteristics of 32 Black African nations in the late 1950s and 1960s. Data are provided on political regime characteristics, such as the existence and nature of political parties, elections, the nature of the judicial system, the extent of government influence, and the occurrence of riots, civil violence, terrorist activities, civil wars, irredentist movements, and coup d'etats. Economic variables provide information on government revenues, government expenditures, gross domestic capital formation, public investment as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), defense budgets, energy, investment, labor, number of wage earners as a percentage of active population, industrial production, electricity production, per capita energy consumption, educational expenditures, economic welfare, consumer price index, international economic aid, total international trade, imports and exports, agriculture, and membership in major African multilateral economic organizations. Also included is information on the military and security systems, Africanization of the army officer corps, international relations, membership in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), communication and transportation, and social welfare. Other variables provide information on population estimates and characteristics, population density, settlement patterns, cultural pluralism, language, religion, primary and secondary school enrollment, family organization, patrilineal kin groups, class stratification, and the number of physicians per population. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05019.v1 population density icpsr population estimates icpsr price indexes icpsr public transportation icpsr religion icpsr riots icpsr security systems icpsr social welfare icpsr urbanization icpsr agricultural development icpsr civil disobedience icpsr civil wars icpsr conflict icpsr coup d'etat icpsr defense spending icpsr developing nations icpsr economic indicators icpsr education expenditures icpsr educational populations icpsr electoral systems icpsr electricity icpsr elementary education icpsr energy consumption icpsr energy production icpsr ethnicity icpsr exports icpsr families icpsr foreign aid icpsr government expenditures icpsr government revenues icpsr Gross Domestic Product icpsr Gross National Product icpsr higher education icpsr imports icpsr industrial production icpsr international relations icpsr international trade icpsr labor force icpsr language icpsr mass media icpsr nongovernmental organizations icpsr political parties icpsr political systems icpsr population characteristics icpsr IDRC I. Conflict Data ICPSR XVI.B. Social Indicators, Nations Other Than the United States TPDRC I. Terrorism IDRC III. Electoral Systems and Political Behavior IDRC IV. Environmental Data IDRC II. Economic Data Morrison, Donald Mitchell, Robert Paden, John Stevenson, Michael Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 5019 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05019.v1