DOI: 10.3886/icpsr00038
title: Data Confrontation Seminar, 1969: Comparative Socio-Political Data
title: Archival Version

description: This study contains selected electoral and demographic
national data for nine nations in the 1950s and 1960s. The data were
prepared for the Data Confrontation Seminar on the Use of Ecological
Data in Comparative Cross-National Research held under the auspices
of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research on April 1-18, 1969. One of the primary concerns of
this international seminar was the need for cooperation in the
development of data resources in order to facilitate exchange of
data among individual scholars and research groups. Election
returns for two or more national and/or local elections are
provided for each of the nine nations, as well as ecological
materials for at least two time points in the general period of
the 1950s and 1960s. While each dataset was received at a single
level of aggregation, the data have been further aggregated to
at least a second level of aggregation. In most cases, the data can
be supplied at the commune or municipality level and at the province
or district level as well. Part 1 (Germany, Regierungsbezirke),
Part 2 (Germany, Kreise), Part 3 (Germany, Lander), and Part 4
(Germany, Wahlkreise) contain data for all kreise, laender (states),
administrative districts, and electoral districts for national
elections in the period 1957-1969, and for state elections in the
period 1946-1969, and ecological data from 1951 and 1961. Part 5
(France, Canton), and Part 6 (France, Departemente) contain data for
the cantons and departements of two regions of France (West and Central)
for the national elections of 1956, 1962, and 1967, and ecological
data for the years 1954 and 1962. Data are provided for election
returns for selected parties: Communist, Socialist, Radical, Federation
de Gauche, and the Fifth Republic. Included are raw votes and percentage
of total votes for each party. Ecological data provide information on
total population, proportion of total population in rural areas,
agriculture, industry, labor force, and middle class in 1954, as well
as urbanization, crime rates, vital statistics, migration, housing,
and the index of "comforts." Part 7 (Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture), Part 8
(Japan, House of Representatives Time Series), Part 9 (Japan, House of
(Councilors (Time Series)), and Part 10 (Japan, Prefecture) contain
data for the 46 prefectures for 15 national elections between 1949 and
1968, including data for all communities in the prefecture of Kanagawa
for 13 national elections, returns for 8 House of Representatives'
elections, 7 House of Councilors' elections, descriptive data from 4
national censuses, and ecological data for 1950, 1955, 1960, and 1965.
Data are provided for total number of electorate, voters, valid votes,
and votes cast by such groups as the Jiyu, Minshu, Kokkyo, Minji,
Shakai, Kyosan, and Mushozoku for the Communist, Socialist,
Conservative, Komei, and Independent parties for all the 46
prefectures. Population characteristics include age, sex, employment,
marriage and divorce rates, total number of live births, deaths,
households, suicides, Shintoists, Buddhists, and Christians, and labor
union members, news media subscriptions, savings rate, and population
density. Part 11 (India, Administrative Districts) and Part 12 (India,
State) contain data for all administrative districts and all states and
union territories for the national and state elections in 1952, 1957, 1962,
1965, and 1967, the 1958 legislative election, and ecological data from
the national censuses of 1951 and 1961. Data are provided for total number
of votes cast for the Congress, Communist, Jan Sangh, Kisan Mazdoor
Praja, Socialist, Republican, Regional, and other parties, contesting
candidates, electorate, valid votes, and the percentage of valid votes
cast. Also included are votes cast for the Rightist, Christian
Democratic, Center, Socialist, and Communist parties in the 1958
legislative election. Ecological data include total population, urban
population, sex distribution, occupation, economically active
population, education, literate population, and number of Buddhists,
Christians, Hindus, Jainis, Moslems, Sikhs, and other religious groups.
Part 13 (Norway, Province), and Part 14 (Norway, Commune) consist of the
returns for four national elections in 1949, 1953, 1957, and 1961, and
descriptive data from two national censuses. Data are provided for the
total number of registered voters, valid votes, raw votes cast for the
Communist, Labor, Liberal, Agrarian, Conservative, Christian Peoples
parties, and other parties, and the percentage of total votes cast for
each party. Data are also provided for total population by gender and
age, economically active population, number of church services registered,
and number of communes within each province, as well as percentagized
number of population economically active in select industries, dissenters,
and total population attending church. Part 15 (Norway, Year 1965)
contains returns for national elections in 1961 and 1965 for 466
communes created by administrative reorganization in 1961, and
ecological data from the 1960 census. Data are provided for total votes
cast for the parties, and the number of registered voters. Other
items specify the type of commune, region code, television coverage
code, and politicization, two-day election, and periphery indexes.
Part 16 (Sweden, Constituency) and Part 17 (Sweden, Commune) contain
data for all communes, provinces, and constituencies for Parliamentary
elections in 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960, and ecological data from two
national censuses for 1950 and 1960. Data are provided for total
electorate, number of votes cast, raw votes, and percentage of votes
cast for the Conservative, Agrarian, Liberal, Social Democratic,
Communist, and other parties. Data are also provided for total
population by gender, population economically active, number of
salaried employees, and wage earners. Part 18 (Denmark, County) and Part
19 (Denmark, Commune) consist of data for all communes and provinces for
the national elections of 1947, 1950, 1953, 1960, 1964, and 1966, and
ecological data from the censuses of 1950 and 1960. Data are provided
for total number of electorates and raw votes for the Social Democratic,
Radical Liberal, Conservative, Liberal, Single-tax, Communist, Danish,
German Minority parties, and other parties. Data are also provided for
total and percentagized population by age and gender, industrially active
population, and urbanization. Part 20 (Netherlands, Municipalities)
consists of data for all municipalities, provinces, and economic-geographic
areas for national elections in 1959 and 1963, and ecological data for
1954 and 1962 for total population and industrially active population
by gender and age, urbanization, occupation, education, and religion.
Part 21 (Poland, Poviats), Part 22 (Poland, Electoral Districts), and
Part 23 (Poland, Voievodships) consist of data for all poviats,
voievodships, and electoral districts for national elections in 1952,
1957, 1961, and 1965, two council elections, and ecological data for
1950, 1960, and 1965. Data are provided for total population by gender
and age distribution, occupation, investments, communication media,
industrially active population, number of dwelling units, farms,
pigs, cattle, physicians, and population growth ratio in urban and
rural areas. Items also specify the number of staff, employees, and
council members in local councils in 1965. See the related collection,
DATA CONFRONTATION SEMINAR, 1969: UNITED STATES DATA (ICPSR 0005).
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Germany, Regierungsbezirke
DS2: Germany, Kreise
DS3: Germany, Lander
DS4: Germany, Wahlkreise
DS5: France, Canton
DS6: France, Departemente
DS7: Japan, Kanagawa Prefecture
DS8: Japan, House of Representatives Time Series
DS9: Japan, House of Councilors (Time Series)
DS10: Japan, Prefecture
DS11: India, Administrative District
DS12: India, State
DS13: Norway, Province
DS14: Norway, Commune
DS15: Norway, Year 1965
DS16: Sweden, Constituency
DS17: Sweden, Commune
DS18: Denmark, County
DS19: Denmark, Commune
DS20: Netherlands, Municipalities
DS21: Poland, Poviats
DS22: Poland, Electoral Districts
DS23: Poland, Voievodships
description: Germany, France, Japan, India, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Netherlands, and Poland, in 1969.
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