DOI: 10.3886/icpsr00034
title: Comparative Socio-Economic, Public Policy, and Political Data,1900-1960
title: Archival Version

description: This study contains selected demographic, social,
economic, public policy, and political comparative data for
Switzerland, Canada, France, and Mexico for the decades of
1900-1960. Each dataset presents comparable data at the province
or district level for each decade in the period. Various derived
measures, such as percentages, ratios, and indices, constitute the
bulk of these datasets. Data for Switzerland contain information
for all cantons for each decennial year from 1900 to 1960.
Variables describe population characteristics, such as the age of men
and women, county and commune of origin, ratio of foreigners to Swiss,
percentage of the population from other countries such as Germany,
Austria and Lichtenstein, Italy, and France, the percentage of the
population that were Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, births, deaths,
infant mortality rates, persons per household, population density,
the percentage of urban and agricultural population, marital status,
marriages, divorces, professions, factory workers, and primary,
secondary, and university students. Economic variables provide
information on the number of corporations, factory workers,
economic status, cultivated land, taxation and tax revenues, canton
revenues and expenditures, federal subsidies, bankruptcies, bank
account deposits, and taxable assets. Additional variables provide
political information, such as national referenda returns, party
votes cast in National Council elections, and seats in the cantonal
legislature held by political groups such as the Peasants, Socialists,
Democrats, Catholics, Radicals, and others. Data for Canada provide
information for all provinces for the decades 1900-1960 on population
characteristics, such as national origin, the net internal migration
per 1,000 of native population, population density per square mile,
the percentage of owner-occupied dwellings, the percentage of urban
population, the percentage of change in population from preceding
censuses, the percentage of illiterate population aged 5 years and
older, and the median years of schooling. Economic variables provide
information on per capita personal income, total provincial revenue
and expenditure per capita, the percentage of the labor force employed
in manufacturing and in agriculture, the average number of employees
per manufacturing establishment, assessed value of real property per
capita, the average number of acres per farm, highway and rural road
mileage, transportation and communication, the number of telephones
per 100 population, and the number of motor vehicles registered per
1,000 population. Additional variables on elections and votes are
supplied as well. Data for France provide information for all
departements for all legislative elections since 1936, the two
presidential elections of 1965 and 1969, and several referenda held
in the period since 1958. Social and economic data are provided for
the years 1946, 1954, and 1962, while various policy data are presented
for the period 1959-1962. Variables provide information on population
characteristics, such as the percentages of population by age group,
foreign-born, bachelors aged 20 to 59, divorced men aged 25 and older,
elementary school students in private schools, elementary school students
per million population from 1966 to 1967, the number of persons in
household in 1962, infant mortality rates per million births, and the
number of priests per 10,000 population in 1946. Economic variables
focus on the Gross National Product (GNP), the revenue per capita per
household, personal income per capita, income tax, the percentage of
active population in industry, construction and public works,
transportation, hotels, public administration, and other jobs, the
percentage of skilled and unskilled industrial workers, the number of
doctors per 10,000 population, the number of agricultural cooperatives in
1946, the average hectares per farm, the percentage of farms cultivated
by the owner, tenants, and sharecroppers, the number of workhorses,
cows, and oxen per 100 hectares of farmland in 1946, and the percentages
of automobiles per 1,000 population, radios per 100 homes, and cinema
seats per 1,000 population. Data are also provided on the percentage of
Communists (PCF), Socialists, Radical Socialists, Conservatives, Gaullists,
Moderates, Poujadists, Independents, Turnouts, and other political groups
and parties in elections 1946-1969. Additional variables provide
information on medical insurance, death benefits, and aid to families.
Data for Mexico provide information for all states at decennial points
from 1910 to 1960. Social and economic data are available for the entire
period, while political and public policy data are presented for the
decades beginning with 1930. Variables are provided on population size,
population density per kilogram, the percentage of illiterate population,
the percentage increase in population by decade, the percentage of
economically active population, the total per capita state revenues and
expenditures, per capita personal income, median family income, minimum
salary in city and in countryside, the poverty index in percentages,
the average number of employees per industrial firm, the average
investment per manufacturing establishment, the value of industrial and
agricultural products in pesos per capita, the average number of hectares
per farm, gasoline consumption in litres per capita, and the number of
telephones and of registered motor vehicles per 1,000 population.
Variables also provide information on the percentage of registered
voters who voted in elections.
description: Selected provinces or districts of Switzerland, Canada, 
France, and Mexico in the decades of 1900-1960.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Switzerland, 1900 and 1910 Data
DS2: Switzerland, 1920 and 1930 Data
DS3: Switzerland, 1940 and 1950 Data
DS4: Switzerland, 1960 Data
DS5: Canada Data
DS6: France Data
DS7: Mexico Data