Dimensionality of Nations Project: Nation Attribute Data, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5020)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Rudolph J. Rummel

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05020.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Rummel, Rudolph J. Dimensionality of Nations Project:  Nation Attribute Data, 1950-1965. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05020.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Benin   Cambodia   Sudan   East Timor   Paraguay   Portugal   Syria   North Korea   Greece   Morocco   Iran   Mali   Panama   Guatemala   Iraq   Chile   Laos   Nepal   Argentina   Tanzania   Zambia   Ghana   India   Canada   Turkey   Belgium   Taiwan   Finland   Trinidad and Tobago   Central African Republic   Jamaica   Peru   Turkmenistan   Germany   Yemen   Vietnam (Socialist Republic)   Easter Island   United States   Guinea   China (Peoples Republic)   Somalia   Chad   Madagascar   Ivory Coast   Thailand   Libya   Costa Rica   Sweden   Poland   Jordan   Nigeria   Bulgaria   Tunisia   Sri Lanka   Uruguay   United Kingdom   Switzerland   Spain   Lebanon   Brunei   Cuba   Liberia   Venezuela   Czech Republic   Mauritania   Israel   Australia   Soviet Union   Tajikistan   Myanmar   Cameroon   Malaysia   Global   Gabon   South Korea   Austria   Yugoslavia   El Salvador   Brazil   Algeria   Colombia   Ecuador   Hungary   Japan   Albania   New Zealand   Senegal   Italy   Honduras   Ethiopia   Haiti   Afghanistan   Burundi   Egypt   Sierra Leone   Bolivia   Russia   Saudi Arabia   Netherlands   Pakistan   Ireland   Slovakia   France   Romania   Togo   Niger   Philippines   Rwanda   Uzbekistan   Nicaragua   Norway   Democratic Republic of Congo   Dominican Republic   Denmark   British Virgin Islands   Mexico   Uganda   Zimbabwe   Indonesia

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1950 -- 1965

Data Collection Notes

  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.

  2. See also the related collection, DIMENSIONALITY OF NATIONS PROJECT: ATTRIBUTES OF NATIONS AND BEHAVIOR OF NATION DYADS, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5409).

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Universe

A total of 113 nations with populations greater than 750,000 that were independent at least two years by 1965.

Data Source

(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.

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Original Release Date

1984-05-10

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Rummel, Rudolph J. Dimensionality of Nations Project: Nation Attribute Data, 1950-1965. ICPSR05020-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05020.v1
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