Description & Citation--Study No. 9903

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

09903

Title:

National Material Capabilities Data, 1816-1985

Principal Investigator(s):

Singer, J. David

Small, Melvin

Bibliographic Citation:

Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. NATIONAL MATERIAL CAPABILITIES DATA, 1816-1985. Ann Arbor, MI: J. David Singer, University of Michigan, and Detroit, MI: Melvin Small, Wayne State University [producers], 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09903.v1

Series:

Correlates of War Project Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

This collection contains demographic, military, and industrial indicators for each international system member for the years 1816-1985. There are two identification variables and seven substantive variables, which include urban and total populations, military expenditure, military personnel, iron and steel production, and energy consumption. Each system member is also coded as a major or minor power for each year.

Subject Terms:

armed forces, demographic characteristics, international development, industrial indicators, military expenditures, nineteenth century, population characteristics, twentieth century

Geographic Coverage:

Global

Time Period:

  • 1816--1985

Date of Collection:

  • 1990-07

Universe:

All countries in the world.

Data Types:

aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

Column 13 of every record in the data file contains the numeral 3. This variable is not described in the codebook.

Methodology

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1993-04-09

Dataset(s):

  • DS1: Raw Data
  • DS2: SPSS Export File for Raw Data

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