Black Africa Handbook (ICPSR 5019)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Donald Morrison; Robert Mitchell; John Paden; Michael Stevenson

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05019.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Morrison, Donald, Mitchell, Robert, Paden, John, and Stevenson, Michael. Black Africa Handbook. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05019.v1

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Subject Terms

agricultural development   civil disobedience   civil wars   conflict   coup d'etat   defense spending   developing nations   economic indicators   education expenditures   educational populations   electoral systems   electricity   elementary education   energy consumption   energy production   ethnicity   exports   families   foreign aid   government expenditures   government revenues   Gross Domestic Product   Gross National Product   higher education   imports   industrial production   international relations   international trade   labor force   language   mass media   nongovernmental organizations   political parties   political systems   population characteristics   population density   population estimates   price indexes   public transportation   religion   riots   security systems   social welfare   urbanization

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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A total of 32 African nations in the late 1950s and late 1960s.

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(1) Morrison, Donald, Robert Mitchell, John Paden, and Michael Stevenson. BLACK AFRICA: A COMPARATIVE HANDBOOK. New York, NY: Irvington Publishers, 1989, (2) Johnson, Hildegard B. "The Location of Christian Missions in Africa." THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW 57, 2 (1967), (3) United Nations. STATISTICAL YEARBOOKS, 1967-1968, and (4) United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. YEARBOOK, 1968.

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Original Release Date

1984-05-10

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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:
  • Morrison, Donald, Robert Mitchell, John Paden, and Michael Stevenson. Black Africa Handbook. ICPSR05019-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1972. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05019.v1
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