International Data Base, February 1990 (ICPSR 8490)

Published: Feb 16, 1992

Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08490.v3

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Project Description

Summary

This dataset contains information from tables of demographic, economic and social data for the countries of the world. Information presented includes population, health, nutrition, mortality, fertility, family planning and contraceptive use, literacy, housing, and economic activity data. Tabular data are broken down by such variables as age, sex, and urban/rural residence.

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. International Data Base, February 1990. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08490.v3

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Subject Terms

aging agriculture birth control birth rates demographic characteristics education employment ethnicity fertility rates Gross National Product health health care facilities households housing immigration income labor force literacy mortality rates nutrition occupations population population migration religion unemployment vital statistics youths

Geographic Coverage

Global

Scope of Project

Data Collection Notes

Data are organized as a series of statistical tables identified by country and table number. Each record consists of the data values associated with a single row of a given table. There are 105 tables with data for 208 countries. The second file is a note file, containing text of notes associated with various tables. These notes provide information such as definitions of categories (i.e. urban/rural) and how various values were calculated.

Methodology

Data Type(s)

aggregate data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

1986-06-06

Version Date

1992-02-16

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.