Economic development

Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Jan-Erik Lane - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Description:

This dataset contain country level economic and demographic measures for 64 countries. GNP, GDP, gross domestic investment, labour force, export, and public consumtion growth 1960-1980; GDP per capita 1960, 1970, and 1980; Gross domestic investment as percentage of GDP 1960 and 1980; Export as percentage of GDP 1960 and 1977; Government expenditure as percentage of GDP 1977; Male participation rate 1960 and 1980; Industrial and agricultural employment 1960 and 1980; Ethno-linguistic and religious fragment 1960; Population growth 1960-1980; School and higher education enrollment 1975; Democracy, and socialist tradition in government.

Subject area:

economic conditions and indicators, social conditions and indicators (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

labour force, gross domestic product, gross national product

Principal organisation:

Umeå University

Accessibility status:

Access to data through SND
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):

Jan-Erik Lane - Umeå University, Department of Political Science

Identifiers:

SND-ID: SND 0225

Description:

This dataset contain country level economic and demographic measures for 64 countries. GNP, GDP, gross domestic investment, labour force, export, and public consumtion growth 1960-1980; GDP per capita 1960, 1970, and 1980; Gross domestic investment as percentage of GDP 1960 and 1980; Export as percentage of GDP 1960 and 1977; Government expenditure as percentage of GDP 1977; Male participation rate 1960 and 1980; Industrial and agricultural employment 1960 and 1980; Ethno-linguistic and religious fragment 1960; Population growth 1960-1980; School and higher education enrollment 1975; Democracy, and socialist tradition in government.

Language:

Swedish

Geographic spread:

Geographic location: Sweden

Unit of analysis:

Population:

Countries

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Subject area:

economic conditions and indicators, social conditions and indicators (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Social Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords:

labour force, gross domestic product, gross national product

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Publications

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Bollen (1980) Issues in the Comparative Measurement of Political Democracy. American Sociological Review, 44, pp. 572-587.

IMF (1984) Government Finance Statistics Yearbook. Washington D.C.: IMF.

Schmidt (ed) Westliche Industri-Gesellschaften: Wirtschaft - Gesellschaft - Politik, p. 374. Munchen: Piper.

Summers & Heston (1984) Improved International Comparisons of Real Product and its Composition, 1950-80. The Review of Income and Wealth, 30, pp. 207-262.

Taylor & Hudson (1972) World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale U.P.

Taylor (1981) Codebook to World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators: Volume 1: Aggregate Data. 3rd ed. West Berlin: IIVG.

World Bank (1980) World Tables. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P.

World Bank (1982) World Development Report 1982. Washington D.C.: World bank.

World Bank (1984) World Tables. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P.

Ersson, S., Janda, K. & Lane, J-E. (1982) Ecological determinants of regional voting patterns in Western Europe. Research report 1982:12. Umeå: Department of Political Science. ISSN 0349-0831.

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Version 1.0:

1991-05-01 doi:10.5878/000942

Available documentation:

English codebook

Economic development

Citation:

Jan-Erik Lane. Umeå University, Department of Political Science (1991). Economic development. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/000942

Data format / data structure:

Numeric

Variables:

33

Number of individuals/objects:

67