Distances Between Cities Acting as National Midpoints in the European System, 1816-1980 (ICPSR 9274)
Principal Investigator(s): Faber, Jan
Summary: This collection provides longitudinal data on geographic distances between nations. These distances changed over time as a result of alterations in the political map of Europe. The collection is designed to permit investigation of the variance in the degree of adjacency of nations and the measurement of economic and military spheres of influence. Each part of this collection presents a distance matrix for the time period involved, with dyadic distances between cities acting as national midpoints... (more info)
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Study Description
Citation
Faber, Jan. Distances Between Cities Acting as National Midpoints in the European System, 1816-1980. ICPSR09274-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1990. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09274.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09274.v1
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Funding
This survey was funded by:
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (H43-141)
Scope of Study
Summary: This collection provides longitudinal data on geographic distances between nations. These distances changed over time as a result of alterations in the political map of Europe. The collection is designed to permit investigation of the variance in the degree of adjacency of nations and the measurement of economic and military spheres of influence. Each part of this collection presents a distance matrix for the time period involved, with dyadic distances between cities acting as national midpoints measured in 100 kilometers.
Subject Terms: geographic distribution, geography, nations
Geographic Coverage: Global
Time Period:
- 1816--1980
Date of Collection:
- 1984--1985
Universe: Dyadic distances between cities acting as national midpoints within the nation-system comprised of the European states, the United States, Russia/the USSR, and Turkey.
Data Types: survey data
Data Collection Notes:
Produced by the Europa Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1989.
Methodology
Data Source:
(1) W.R. Shepherd. SHEPHERD'S HISTORICAL ATLAS, 1974, (2) J.D. Singer and M. Small. THE WAGES OF WAR, 1816-1965: A STATISTICAL HANDBOOK, 1972, and (3) The London Times. TIMES ATLAS OF THE WORLD, 1975
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Original ICPSR Release: 1990-05-01
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 24 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 24 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
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