World handbook of political and social indicators II
Subtitle: cross-national aggregate data, 1950-1965
By: principal investigators, Charles Lewis Taylor and Michael C. Hudson
Series: ICPSR -- 5027; ICPSR (Series) -- 5027
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Social indicators; Political indicators
Description: This dataset consists of data for 136 polities in the form of 300 variables. Included are indicators of population size and growth, communications, education, culture, economics, and politics for the four base years: 1950, 1956, 1960, and 1965. Data for 1965 are about 90% complete but the proportion of missing data is much higher for the three earlier years.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I.

Chronological coverage: 1950, 1956, 1960, 1965.

Data were collected by the World Data Analysis Program at Yale University.

136 polities; 300 variables.

Taylor, Charles L., and Michael C. Hudson. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, Second Ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.