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The 2001 Recession: How Was It Different and What Developments May Have Caused It? (ICPSR 1292)
Released/updated on: 2003-10-09
Geographic coverage: United States
The 2001 recession was unique in several respects. For instance, the peak-to-trough decline in real Gross Domestic Product was one of the smallest on record and its duration was slightly shorter than average. This article examines some of the other unique features of the 2001 recession compared with the "average" post-World War II recession. The author also shows that forecasters were surprised by the onset of the recession, perhaps because of incomplete data available to them in real time. Finally, the article examines the errors from a well-known macroeconomic forecast and finds that forecasters were surprised by the declines in real business and household fixed investment, as well as real net exports, before the March 2001 business cycle peak.
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The Analysis of Budget Consolidations: Concepts, Research Designs and Measurement (ICPSR 22780)
Released/updated on: 2008-06-25
Geographic coverage: United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal, Iceland, Global, Spain, New Zealand, Greece, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Luxembourg, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Australia, France, Germany
Fiscal adjustments have been examined from different perspectives in the literature. However, the conceptual approaches to the analysis of budget consolidations vary substantially. Therefore different approaches to the analysis of fiscal adjustments are discussed in a first step. It is shown that the choices regarding the underlying concepts lead to specific research designs and influence the appropriate empirical method. In a second step, the determinants of budget consolidations are examined empirically in four different research designs for 23 industrialized countries in the 1990s. The analysis shows that the results vary depending on the method applied. However, economic variables seem to play the most important role in explaining the consolidation performance.
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Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, United States, 1998-2023 (ICPSR 36357)
Released/updated on: 2025-04-21
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1998-01-01--2023-01-01
The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) is produced through the partnership between the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Built with the BEA's input-output (I-O) accounts, the ACPSA provides detailed statistics that illustrate the impact of arts and cultural production on the United States economy. Specifically, this account provides an assessment of the arts and cultural sector's contributions to gross domestic product (GDP).
For years 1998 to 2023, the ACPSA presents annual statistics about the following items: (1) Output of detailed arts and cultural commodities and the industries producing these commodities; (2) employment and compensation within these industries; (3) arts and cultural value added by industry; and (4) commodity-flow details for arts and cultural production products.
**Please note that due to BEA's 2023 comprehensive updates to the national, industry, and state economic accounts, these statistics supersede all prior ACPSA statistics provided previously and should not be combined with previous years of the ACPSA.**
In the data tables provided, the statistics fall under two broad categories: (1) core arts and cultural production and (2) supporting arts and cultural production. The core category contains the commodities in which the output primarily contributes to arts and culture. Performing arts, museums, design services, and arts education are included in the core category. The supporting category consists of commodities that support the core category through publication, dissemination of the creative process, or other supportive functions. This category contains event promotion, printing, and broadcasting.
The seven national-level data tables provided for each year from 1998 to 2023 include:
- Table 1. Production of Commodities by Industry
- Table 2. Output and Value Added by Industry
- Table 3. Supply and Consumption of Commodities
- Table 4. Employment and Compensation of Employees by Industry
- Table 5. Total ACPSA-related Employment by Industry
- Table 6. Output by ACPSA Commodity
- Table 7. Real Output by Commodity
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Black Africa Handbook (ICPSR 5019)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Guinea, Sudan, Chad, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Global, Gabon, Malawi, Mali, Gambia, Nigeria, Lesotho, Togo, Niger, Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Zambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Uganda, Central African Republic, Ethiopia
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.
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CATCHING-UP AND FALLING BEHIND: RUSSIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1690s TO 1880s (ICPSR 206662)
Released/updated on: 2024-06-25
Geographic coverage: Russia
Time period: 1690-01-01--1890-01-01
We provide decadal estimates of GDP per capita for the Russian Empire from the 1690s to the 1880s, making it possible for the first time to compare the economic performance of one of the world’s largest economies with other countries. Significant Russian economic growth before the 1760s resulted in catching-up on northwest Europe, but this was followed by a period of negative growth between the 1760s and 1800s and stagnation from the 1800s to the 1880s, leaving late-nineteenth century Russia further behind the West than at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
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Channels of Interstate Risk Sharing, United States, 1963-2000 (ICPSR 25541)
Released/updated on: 2018-06-18
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1963-01-01--2000-01-01
This study developed a framework for quantifying the amount of risk sharing among states in the United States, and constructed data that allowed researchers to decompose the cross-sectional variance in gross state product into levels of smoothing capital markets, federal government, and credit market smoothing.
The collection contains 67 Excel data files, that were grouped into 17 datasets based on the organizational ordering schematic provided by the principal investigator, including:
- Dataset 1 - State Personal Income: n=1,938, 51 variables
- Dataset 2 - Federal Taxes and Contributions: n=17,948, 424 variables
- Dataset 3 - State Population: n=1,887, 51 variables
- Dataset 4 - State and Local Personal Taxes: n=11,526, 306 variables
- Dataset 5 - Interests on State and Local Funds: n=7,609, 205 variables
- Dataset 6 - Transfers: n=5,814, 153 variables
- Dataset 7 - Non Federal State Income: n=1,887, 51 variables
- Dataset 8 - Federal Grants: n=1,938, 51 variables
- Dataset 9 - Federal Transfers to Individuals: n=27,415, 766 variables
- Dataset 10 - Federal Personal Taxes: n=1,938, 51 variables
- Dataset 11 - State Government Expenditure: n=1,887, 51 variables
- Dataset 12 - Disposable State Income: n=1,836, 51 variables
- Dataset 13 - State Consumption: n=5,508, 153 variables
- Dataset 14 - State and Local Transfers: n=1,836, 51 variables
- Dataset 15 - Gross State Product: n=1,910, 52 variables
- Dataset 16 - Retail Sales: n=3,774, 102 variables
- Dataset 17 - Personal Consumption Expenditures: n=38, 2 variables
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China, Europe & Great Divergence (ICPSR 105383)
Released/updated on: 2018-08-13
Geographic coverage: China
Time period: 0980-01-01--1850-01-01
This is the replication package for "China, Europe and the Great Divergence: A Study in Historical national Accounting". As a result of recent advances in historical national accounting, estimates of GDP per capita are now available for a number of European economies back to the medieval period, including Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain. The approach has also been extended to Asian economies, including India and Japan. So far, however, China, which has been at the center of the Great Divergence debate, has been absent from this approach. This paper adds China to the picture and shows that the Great Divergence began earlier than originally suggested by the California School, but later than implied by older Eurocentric writers.
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Comparative Taxation Dataset on 40 Countries and Areas, 1870-2001 (ICPSR 37365)
Released/updated on: 2022-04-28
Geographic coverage: Argentina, United States, Uruguay, Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Australia, France, Chile, Germany
Time period: 1870-01-01--2001-01-01
The construction of this Comparative Taxation Dataset is made possible by National Science Foundation (NSF). The dataset is collected mainly from International Historical Statistics (IHS), 2003, and Flora, Peter (1987) State economy and society in Western Europe, 1815-1975. The study covers 22 countries (total 40 countries and areas). The collection includes economically active population, infant mortality rates, unemployment, indices of industrial production, output of crude petroleum, output of natural gas, output of electrical energy, money supply, total central government expenditure and revenue, wholesale price indices, consumer price indices and so on.
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Data and calculations for the book "Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution" (ICPSR 37213)
Released/updated on: 2018-12-04
Geographic coverage: United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, New Zealand, Greece, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Luxembourg, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Australia, France, Germany
Time period: 1965-01-01--2016-01-01
These data were used in the preparation of the book "Starving the Beast" by author, and Principal Investigator, Monica Prasad. The book is a history of the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act. The files include historical data on economics and politics in the Unites States and other advanced industrial countries, as well as full Stata files for all statistical calculations in the book.
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Decline in U.S. Personal Saving Rate: Is it Real and Is It a Puzzle? (ICPSR 21300)
Released/updated on: 2007-11-08
Geographic coverage: United States
Since the mid-1990s, the national income and product accounts personal saving rate for the United States has been trending down, dropping into negative territory for three months during the past two years. This paper examines measurement problems surrounding two of the standard definitions of the personal saving rate. The authors conclude that, despite these measurement problems, the recent decline of the United States personal saving rate to low levels seems to be a real economic phenomenon and may be a cause for concern for several reasons. After examining several possible explanations for the trend advanced in the recent literature, the authors conclude that none of them provides a compelling explanation for the steep decline and negative levels of the United States personal saving rate.
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The Determinants of Aid in the Post-Cold War Era (ICPSR 21302)
Released/updated on: 2007-11-08
Geographic coverage: Benin, Papua New Guinea, Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Paraguay, Kazakhstan, Syria, Solomon Islands, Bahamas, Grenada, Mongolia, Latvia, Morocco, Iran, Mali, Panama, Guatemala, Guyana, Chile, Laos, Nepal, Argentina, Georgia (Republic), Ukraine, Tanzania, Seychelles, Zambia, Ghana, Belize, Bahrain, India, Turkey, Namibia, Comoros, South Africa, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Eritrea, Fiji, Guinea, China (Peoples Republic), Chad, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Western Samoa, Costa Rica, Malawi, Poland, Kuwait, Jordan, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Croatia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Lebanon, Djibouti, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Czech Republic, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Saint Lucia, Swaziland, Israel, Tajikistan, Estonia, Cameroon, Malaysia, Global, Oman, Armenia, Gabon, Mozambique, El Salvador, Brazil, Algeria, Slovenia, Lesotho, Tonga, Ecuador, Colombia, Hungary, Moldova, Belarus, Mauritius, Albania, Vanuatu, Senegal, Honduras, Macedonia, Ethiopia, Haiti, Burundi, Singapore, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Russia, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde, Pakistan, Gambia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Romania, Togo, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Indonesia
The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries' economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the post-Cold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positively related to infant mortality, rights, and government effectiveness.
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ECIN Replication Package for "Trade Agreements and Subnational Income of Border Regions" (ICPSR 191609)
Released/updated on: 2023-06-03
This is the replication package for "Trade Agreements and Subnational Incomeof Border Regions"
There are five files:
1. The file readme.pdf describes the files in the replication package and how to run them.
2. The file variables.pdf gives a description of the variables included in the data dataset.RData.
3. The file dataset.RData is the data file.
4. The file 1_main.R is the R-script that replicates the tables and figures in the main paper and main appendix. The data used is dataset.RData. If executed from the folder, no path adjustments need to be made.
5. The file 2_online_appendix.R is the R-script that replicates the tables and figures from the online supplementary appendix. The data used is dataset.RData. If executed from the folder, no path adjustments need to be made.
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Eurobarometer 67.2: European Union Enlargement, Personal Data Privacy, the National Economy, and Scientific Research, April-May 2007 (ICPSR 21160)
Released/updated on: 2010-06-29
Geographic coverage: Cyprus, Portugal, Global, Malta, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Luxembourg, Ireland, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, France, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Europe, United Kingdom, Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Macedonia, Germany, Estonia
Time period: 2007-04-10--2007-05-15
This round of Eurobarometer surveys queried respondents on standard Eurobarometer measures, such as how satisfied they were with their present life, whether they attempted to persuade others close to them to share their views on subjects they held strong opinions about, whether they discussed political matters, what their expectations were for the next 12 months, and how they viewed economic and social issues in their country compared to the European Union (EU). Additional questions focused on the respondents' knowledge of and opinions on the EU, including how well-informed they felt about the it, what sources of information about the EU they used, whether their country had benefited from being an EU member (or would benefit from being a future member), and the extent of their personal interest in EU matters. Another major focus of the surveys was personal data privacy. The survey asked respondents about their knowledge of the rules and requirements in protecting personal data, the ability of the law to protect citizens from entities accessing their information, and whether law enforcement should be able to access personal information for the purpose of fighting crime and terrorism. For the second major focus of the survey, the national economy, respondents were asked to evaluate their personal financial situation and their nation's economy, as well as to estimate the official growth rate (Gross Domestic Product), inflation rate, and unemployment rate, and then to compare these rates to those from previous or future years. Respondents also provided their opinion about the use of statistical information, especially for political decision-making. As a final major focus, respondents were asked about their interest in scientific research including how the media presents information about scientific research and what types of media they access to get information about this topic. Additional questions were asked of respondents in regard to globalization and involvement of the EU in this process, the 50th anniversary of EU achievements, the development of environmental, foreign, and immigration policies, and the European Council presidency. Demographic and other background information includes respondent's age, gender, nationality, origin of birth (personal and parental), marital status, left-to-right political self-placement, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household composition, ownership of a fixed or a mobile telephone and other durable goods, type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (select countries).
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Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Consensus Forecasts (ICPSR 22683)
Released/updated on: 2008-06-10
Geographic coverage: United States
In November 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a change in the way it communicates its view of the economic outlook: It increased the frequency of its forecasts from two to four times per year, and it increased the length of the forecasting horizon from two to three years. The FOMC does not release the individual members' forecasts or standard measures of consensus such as the mean or median. Rather, it continues to release the forecast information as a range of forecasts, both the full range between the high and the low and a central tendency that omits the extreme values. This paper uses individual forecaster data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) to mimic the FOMC's method for creating their central tendency. The authors show that the midpoint of the central tendency of the SPF is a reliable measure of the consensus, suggesting that the FOMC reporting method is also a reliable measure of consensus. For the dates when both are available, the authors also compare the relative forecast accuracy of the FOMC and SPF consensus forecasts for output growth and inflation. Overall, the differences in forecast accuracy are too small to be statistically significant.
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Financing the State: Government Tax Revenue from 1800 to 2012, 31 countries (ICPSR 38308)
Released/updated on: 2022-04-21
Geographic coverage: South America, United States, Paraguay, Bolivia, North America, Portugal, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Brazil, France, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Japan, Europe, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, Venezuela, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Australia, Peru, Germany
Time period: 1800-01-01--2012-01-01
This dataset presents information on historical central government revenues for 31 countries in Europe and the Americas for the period from 1800 (or independence) to 2012. The countries included are: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany (West Germany between 1949 and 1990), Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In other words, the dataset includes all South American, North American, and Western European countries with a population of more than one million, plus Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Mexico. The dataset contains information on the public finances of central governments. To make such information comparable cross-nationally the researchers chose to normalize nominal revenue figures in two ways: (i) as a share of the total budget, and (ii) as a share of total gross domestic product. The total tax revenue of the central state is disaggregated guided by the Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001 of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which provides a classification of types of revenue, and describes in detail the contents of each classification category. Given the paucity of detailed historical data and the needs of our project, researchers combined some subcategories. First, they were interested in total tax revenue, as well as the shares of total revenue coming from direct and indirect taxes. Further, they measured two sub-categories of direct taxation, namely taxes on property and income. For indirect taxes, they separated excises, consumption, and customs.
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Firm Volatility and Credit: A Macroeconomic Analysis (ICPSR 25062)
Released/updated on: 2009-03-11
Geographic coverage: United States
This paper examines a tractable real business cycle model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks and binding credit constraints on entrepreneurs. The model shows how firm volatility increases in combination with credit market development. It further generates the observed co-movement of credit and firm volatility with output at business cycle frequencies in response to aggregate
productivity shocks.
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Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Country Growth: An Overview (ICPSR 25081)
Released/updated on: 2009-03-11
Geographic coverage: Hungary, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Bermuda Islands, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Luxembourg, Finland, Mexico, France, Germany, Estonia
The authors review the empirical literature that studies the relationship between foreign direct investment, productivity, and growth using aggregate data, and focus on two questions: (1) is there evidence of a positive relationship between foreign direct investment and national growth? and (2) does the output of the "multinational sectors" exhibit higher labor productivity? The authors also briefly discuss how the microeconomic evidence and a number of aggregation and composition problems might help explain the ambiguous results in this literature.
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Historical United States Money Growth, Inflation, and Inflation Credibility (ICPSR 1198)
Released/updated on: 1999-06-23
Geographic coverage: United States
This research focuses on the longer-term monetary relationships in historical data. Charts describing the 10-year average growth rates in the M2 monetary aggregate, nominal GDP, real GDP, and inflation are used to show that there is a consistent longer-term correlation between M2 growth, nominal GDP growth, and inflation but not between such nominal variables and real GDP growth. The data reveal extremely long cycles in monetary growth and inflation, the most recent of which was the strong upward trend in M2 growth, nominal GDP growth, and inflation during the 1960s and 1970s, and the strong downward trend since then. Data going back to the 19th century show that the most recent inflation/disinflation cycle is a repetition of earlier long monetary growth and inflation cycles in the United States historical record. Also discussed is a measure of bond market inflation credibility, defined as the difference between averages in long-term bond rates and real GDP growth. By this measure, inflation credibility hovered close to zero during the 1950s and early 1960s, but then rose to a peak of about 10 percent in the early 1980s. During the 1990s, the bond market has yet to restore the low inflation credibility that existed before inflation turned up during the 1960s. The conclusion is that the risks of starting another costly inflation/disinflation cycle could be avoided by monitoring monetary growth and maintaining a sufficiently tight policy to keep inflation low. An environment of credible price stability would allow the economy to function unfettered by inflationary distortions, which is all that can reasonably be expected of monetary policy, and is precisely what should be expected.
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Identifying Business Cycle Turning Points in Real Time (ICPSR 1284)
Released/updated on: 2003-06-25
Geographic coverage: United States
This paper evaluates the ability of a statistical regime-switching model to identify turning points in United States economic activity in real time. The authors work with a Markov-switching model fit to real Gross Domestic Product and employment data that, when estimated on the entire postwar sample, provides a chronology of business cycle peak and trough dates close to that produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Next, they investigate how accurately and quickly the model would have identified NBER-dated turning points had it been used in real time for the past 40 years. In general, the model identifies turning point dates in real time that are close to the NBER dates. For both business cycle peaks and troughs, the model provides systematic improvement over the NBER in the speed at which turning points are identified. Importantly, the model achieves this with few instances of "false positives." Overall, the evidence suggests that the regime-switching model could be a useful supplement to the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee for establishing turning point dates.
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Nations, Development, and Democracy, 1800-2005 (ICPSR 20440)
Released/updated on: 2007-12-13
Geographic coverage: Global
Time period: 1800-01-01--2005-01-01
To serve the scholarly community's growing interest in the process of democratization in the world over the past 200 years, this data collection consists of a compiled database that assesses 187 (20 historical and 167 contemporary) sovereign countries from 1800-2005. The database was constructed by merging variables derived from these existing datasets: (1) POLITY III: REGIME TYPE AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY 1800-1994 (Jagger and Gurr 1995) [ICPSR 6695], (2) CROSS-NATIONAL TIME SERIES, 1815-1973 (Banks 1993) [ICPSR 7412], (3) Polity IV (Jagger and Gurr 2005), (4) Political Freedom Indicators (Freedom House 2000), (5) World Development Indicators 1960-1998 (World Bank 1999), and (6) World Development Indicators 1960-2005 (World Bank 2006). In addition, missing variables were coded from the Statesman's Yearbook (2000), the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators (Taylor and Jodice 1983), Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Relations (Osmanczyk 1982), and the journal, "Freedom Review," published by Freedom House. A sovereign country was defined as an independent member of the international system, which had a population greater than 500,000. In the database, for each sovereign country there are over 120 indicators, annually recorded, that represent: (1) the level of democratic growth, (2) the countries' development depicted by socioeconomic, demographic, and geographical characteristics, and (3) diffusion indicators. In addition, to add precision to the measurement, modifications of the core indicators were also recorded. The database is complimented by an index of variables.
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Open Budget Survey, 2006-2012 (ICPSR 34932)
Released/updated on: 2014-03-31
Geographic coverage: Middle East, United States, Asia, Europe, North Africa, Caribbean, North America, Global, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
The Open Budget Survey evaluated whether central governments in countries around the world provided the public with access to budget information and opportunities to participate in the budget process. Beginning in 2006, the Open Budget Survey is conducted biennially in partnership with independent civil society researchers within each country. To measure the overall commitment of the countries surveyed to transparency and to allow for comparisons among countries, the International Budget Partnership created the Open Budget Index from the Open Budget Survey which assigned a score to each country based on the information it made available to the public throughout the budget process.
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Real Output in Switzerland: New Estimates for 1913-1947 (ICPSR 1223)
Released/updated on: 2000-08-28
Geographic coverage: Switzerland, Global
Time period: 1913-01-01--1947-01-01
In this article, the authors provide an estimate of the real gross domestic product of Switzerland between 1914 and 1947. The estimate is obtained from published data on three other measures of Swiss economic activity during this period: net national product, industrial production, and the transport volume of Swiss railroads. These underlying series closely represent the economic growth of Switzerland, but they also seem unreasonably volatile as proxy measures of total production, and hence are filtered by moving averages. Although such smoothing might reduce the accuracy of the estimates, comparisons to United States data suggest any such loss is small.
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Rising Natural Gas Prices and Real Economic Activity (ICPSR 1334)
Released/updated on: 2006-11-29
Geographic coverage: United States
In the aftermath of the disruptions caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, natural gas prices rose to record-high levels. Because natural gas is an important energy source for the United States economy, there was widespread concern that these high prices might cause a significant slowing in the economy-especially among those manufacturing industries that heavily consume natural gas. The analysis presented in this article suggests that output is responsive to natural gas prices in some manufacturing sectors. Although perhaps significant, this result must be balances against the findings that, when the analysis is extended to the macroeconomy (real gross domestic product growth), increases in crude oil prices significantly predict real gross domestic product growth, but natural gas prices do not.
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Three Funerals and a Wedding (ICPSR 24543)
Released/updated on: 2009-01-26
Geographic coverage: United States
This article is a modified and updated version of a speech presented at the Regional Economic Summit, Evansville, Indiana, November 20, 2008.
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Unemployment Insurance Claims and Economic Activity (ICPSR 1266)
Released/updated on: 2003-04-25
Geographic coverage: United States
Economic forecasters pay especially close attention to labor market indicators during periods of economic uncertainty. Labor market data are thought to provide early evidence about changes in the course of the economy. This article examines whether monthly changes in labor market indicators are useful for predicting real GDP. It then examines whether weekly changes in initial and continuing unemployment insurance claims are useful for helping to predict changes in important labor market indicators. Incoming monthly data on nonfarm payroll jobs and the index of aggregate weekly hours help predict changes in real GDP growth, but data on the civilian unemployment rate do not. The authors also find that unemployment insurance claims help to predict changes in monthly labor variables. As others have found, these predictions work best in periods of recession. However, this article shows that there was also some predictive ability during the 1990s expansion.
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World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators II: Cross-National Aggregate Data, 1950-1965 (ICPSR 5027)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-16
Geographic coverage: Benin, Papua New Guinea, Angola, Cambodia, Sudan, Paraguay, Portugal, Syria, North Korea, Greece, Mongolia, Morocco, Iran, Mali, Panama, Guatemala, Guyana, Iraq, Chile, Laos, Nepal, Argentina, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Belize, India, Canada, Turkey, Belgium, Taiwan, Finland, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Germany, Yemen, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Puerto Rico, United States, Guinea, China (Peoples Republic), Chad, Somalia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Libya, Costa Rica, Sweden, Malawi, Poland, Kuwait, Jordan, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Switzerland, Spain, Lebanon, Liberia, Cuba, Venezuela, Czech Republic, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Israel, Australia, Soviet Union, Myanmar, Cameroon, Cyprus, Malaysia, Iceland, Global, Gabon, South Korea, Great Britain, Austria, Yugoslavia, Mozambique, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Brazil, Algeria, Ecuador, Colombia, Hungary, Japan, Mauritius, Albania, New Zealand, Senegal, Italy, Honduras, Ethiopia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, Singapore, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Pakistan, Ireland, France, Romania, Togo, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Barbados, Norway, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Indonesia
Time period: 1950-01-01--1965-01-01
This data collection consists of aggregate political, economic, and educational data for 136 countries in the period 1950-1965. Included are indicators of population size and growth, communications, education, culture, economics, and politics for the four base years: 1950, 1960, 1966, and 1965. Data are provided for the percentage of population living in cities of 100,000 or more and 20,000 or more, the total economically active male population engaged in agricultural occupations, and the total economically active male population as a percentage of the total male population. Information is also provided for the number of telephones, radios, televisions, and newspapers per 1,000 population, cinema attendance per capita, literacy rates, and school enrollment ratio. Other variables provide information for steel consumption, energy consumption per capita growth rates, gross national product (GNP) per capita, total trade as a percentage of the GNP, total number of current scientific and technical serials published, percentage of contribution to the total world scientific authors, percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) originating in agriculture, industry, transportation, and communications, and gross domestic fixed capital formation as a percentage of the GNP. Additional information is provided on sectorial income inequality, land inequality, total number of physicians, and number of physicians per one million population. Other items include total military manpower, defense, education, and health expenditure in million United States dollars, total United States economic and military aid and Soviet aid, number of memberships in United Nations organizations and in other international organizations, diplomatic representation, electoral irregularity score, press freedom index, total internal security forces, the beginning and ending year of modernization, the date of independence, and the date of founding of the present constitution.
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World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1981 (ICPSR 8197)
Released/updated on: 2006-03-30
Geographic coverage: Benin, Papua New Guinea, Angola, Sudan, Paraguay, Portugal, Syria, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, North Korea, Bahamas, Grenada, Gibralter, Greece, Mongolia, Morocco, Iran, Mali, Panama, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Virgin Islands of the United States, Czechoslovakia, Iraq, Chile, Laos, Nepal, Argentina, Tanzania, Seychelles, Zambia, Ghana, Belize, Bahrain, India, Canada, Guinea-Bissau, Maldives, Turkey, Belgium, Namibia, Taiwan, Finland, Comoros, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands Antilles, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Germany, Yemen, Puerto Rico, Fiji, Hong Kong, United States, Guinea, China (Peoples Republic), Chad, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, Western Samoa, Costa Rica, Sweden, Malawi, Poland, Kuwait, Jordan, Nigeria, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Switzerland, Spain, Lebanon, Djibouti, Brunei, Liberia, Cuba, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Saint Lucia, Swaziland, Israel, Australia, Soviet Union, Myanmar, Cameroon, Cyprus, Bermuda Islands, Malaysia, Iceland, Global, Oman, Gabon, South Korea, Austria, Yugoslavia, Mozambique, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Brazil, Guam, Algeria, Lesotho, Tonga, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Colombia, Hungary, Japan, Mauritius, Albania, New Zealand, Senegal, Italy, Honduras, Ethiopia, Paracel Islands, Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, Singapore, Egypt, American Samoa, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde, Netherlands, Pakistan, Gambia, Ireland, Qatar, Martinique, Slovakia, France, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Reunion, Bhutan, Romania, Togo, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Barbados, Norway, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Macao, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Suriname, Saint Helena, Indonesia, Dominica
Time period: 1950-01-01--1981-01-01
This dataset contains country level economic and social measures for 183 countries. Part 1, World Tables (1980 File), contains, where available, measures of (1)population, (2)national accounts and price data for 1950, 1955, 1960 through 1977, (3)data on external trade for 1962, 1965, 1970, and 1977, (4)data on balance of payments, debt, central government finance and trade indices for 1970-1977, and (5)social data for 1960, 1970, and (estimated) 1977. More specifically, the groupings include population, GDP by industrial origin and expenditures in constant local prices and current local prices, exchange rates and indices, balance of payments and external debt ($US), central government finance in local currency, social indicators, and external trade. Part 2, World Tables (1982 File), contains data on national accounts, prices, exchange rates and population for 1960-1981. The groupings include GDP by industrial origin as well as expenditure in current local prices and constant local prices, area, population, exchange rates, and indices and savings.
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World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1988 (ICPSR 9300)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-17
Geographic coverage: Benin, Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Paraguay, Portugal, Syria, Solomon Islands, North Korea, Bahamas, Grenada, Greece, Cayman Islands, Morocco, Mali, Panama, Guatemala, Guyana, Chile, Nepal, Argentina, Tanzania, Seychelles, Zambia, Ghana, Belize, Bahrain, India, Canada, Guinea-Bissau, Turkey, Belgium, Finland, Comoros, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Germany, Yemen, Fiji, Hong Kong, United States, China (Peoples Republic), Chad, Somalia, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Thailand, Libya, Western Samoa, Costa Rica, Sweden, Malawi, Poland, Kuwait, Jordan, Nigeria, Tunisia, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Switzerland, Spain, Liberia, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Saint Lucia, Swaziland, Israel, Australia, Cameroon, Cyprus, Malaysia, Iceland, Global, Oman, Gabon, South Korea, Austria, Yugoslavia, Mozambique, El Salvador, Luxembourg, Brazil, Algeria, Slovenia, Lesotho, Tonga, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Colombia, Hungary, Japan, Mauritius, Bouvet Island, New Zealand, Vanuatu, Senegal, Italy, Honduras, Ethiopia, Haiti, Burundi, Singapore, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde, Netherlands, Pakistan, Gambia, Ireland, Slovakia, France, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Bhutan, Togo, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Barbados, Norway, Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Suriname, Saint Helena, Indonesia, Dominica
Time period: 1950-01-01--1988-01-01
This data collection contains economic and social indicators for 136 countries. Included are economic variables such as gross national product, gross domestic product, value added in agriculture, industry, manufacturing, and services, value of imports and exports, private consumption, government consumption, gross national savings, gross domestic savings, government deficit or surplus, net direct foreign investment, repayments of long-term loans, public long-term debt, international reserves excluding gold, and gold holdings at London market price. Many variables are expressed both in terms of current prices and in terms of constant 1980 prices. Demographic and social variables include population, total fertility rate, crude birth rate, life expectancy at birth, food production per capita, percent of labor force in agriculture, percent of labor force that is female, and primary and secondary school enrollment rates.
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World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992 (ICPSR 6159)
Released/updated on: 1997-05-30
Geographic coverage: Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Wales, Paraguay, Kazakhstan, Syria, Solomon Islands, Bahamas, Gibralter, Mali, Panama, Guadeloupe, Virgin Islands of the United States, Czechoslovakia, Laos, Argentina, Seychelles, Zambia, Belize, Bahrain, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, Finland, Comoros, Faroe Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Yemen, Puerto Rico, China (Peoples Republic), Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Libya, Western Samoa, Sweden, Malawi, Poland, Jordan, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Channel Islands, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, French Polynesia, Lebanon, Brunei, Azerbaijan, Cuba, Czech Republic, Mauritania, Saint Lucia, Israel, Australia, Tajikistan, Spratley Islands, Cameroon, Cyprus, Bermuda Islands, Malaysia, Iceland, Global, Oman, Armenia, Gabon, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, Brazil, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Ecuador, Colombia, Moldova, Vanuatu, Italy, Honduras, Haiti, Afghanistan, Burundi, Singapore, French Guiana, American Samoa, Russia, Netherlands, Martinique, Kyrgyzstan, Reunion, Bhutan, Romania, Togo, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Dominica, Benin, Sudan, Portugal, New Caledonia, North Korea, Grenada, Greece, Mongolia, Latvia, Morocco, Iran, Guatemala, Guyana, Iraq, Chile, Nepal, Georgia (Republic), Isle of Man, Ukraine, Tanzania, Ghana, India, Canada, Turkey, Belgium, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Central African Republic, Jamaica, Peru, Turkmenistan, Germany, Vietnam (Socialist Republic), Fiji, Hong Kong, United States, Guinea, Chad, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Thailand, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Nigeria, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Liberia, Venezuela, Burkina Faso, Swaziland, Estonia, Wallis and Futuna, South Korea, Austria, Mozambique, El Salvador, Guam, Lesotho, Tonga, Hungary, Japan, Belarus, Mauritius, New Zealand, Senegal, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Bolivia, Malta, Wake Island, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde, Pakistan, Gambia, Ireland, Qatar, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, France, Lithuania, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Niger, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Barbados, Norway, Botswana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Macao, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Uganda, Suriname, Greenland
Time period: 1950-01-01--1992-01-01
This study contains aggregate socioeconomic and demographic data for 189 countries in the period 1950-1992. Data are provided in both current and constant dollars for government revenues and expenditures, budget balance, gross national product (GNP), gross domestic product (GDP), private consumption, government consumption, government deficit or surplus, values of exports and imports, terms of trade index, long-term interest payments, net long-term loans, repayments on long-term loans, total external debt, net direct foreign investment, international reserves excluding gold, gold holdings at London market price, net workers remittances, government capital receipts and payments, money supply, consumer price index, gross domestic and national savings, food production per capita, and value-added in agriculture, industry, manufacturing, and services. Demographic and social variables include population characteristics such as the percentage of urban population, life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate, school enrollment rates, and the percentage of females enrolled in primary schools, as well as the percentage of the labor force in agriculture, and the percentage of the labor force that was female.