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TITLE: Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990

• STUDYNO = 02532 (Second ICPSR Version, January 2001)
• INVESTIGATOR = Bollen, Kenneth A.
• UNIVERSE = Cross-national indicators of liberal democracy
• SAMPLING = A pooled cross-section of national indicators of liberal democracy
• DATE-UPDATED-SSDC = June 20, 2006

STUDY DESCRIPTION: This study, a collection of crossnational measures of political democracy, contains over 800 variables for most of the world's independent countries. Political, social, and economic measures are available in the data file, and topics include adult suffrage, civil liberties, political rights, the openness, fairness, and competitiveness of the electoral process, executive and legislative selection and effectiveness, political party legitimacy, political participation, limitations on the executive branch of the government, level of democratization, economic openness, constitutional development, government legitimacy, and the outlook for freedom. A series of variables focuses on freedom and barriers to freedom, including freedom of peaceful assembly and association, mail censorship, women's rights, freedom of information and technology, freedom of political opposition, and freedom of the press. Compulsory membership in state organizations and political parties and compulsory religion in schools are addressed as well.

EXTENT OF COLLECTION: documentation + data definition statements + data file

• CODEBOOK: These data are documented by a PDF codebook, Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990 (2nd ICPSR Version, Jan 2001).
• SAS AND SPSS DATA DEFINITION STATEMENTS: These text files can read the ASCII data file into statistical analysis software. Users can edit these syntax files to meet their specific requirements. Users are also advised to check the statements to make sure that they are compatible with their software installations, and if they are not, to make the appropriate changes.
• DATA FILE: This study has one data file.
• FILE FORMAT = Rectangular ASCII
• NUMBER OF RECORDS = 191
• RECORD DELIMITER = Line Feed
• RECORD LENGTH = 3337 (Includes Line Feed Character)

RESTRICTIONS: All users of these data should acknowledge ICPSR assistance.

RELATED PUBLICATIONS: Publications related to this data file.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION: Bollen, Kenneth A. CROSS-NATIONAL INDICATORS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY, 1950-1990 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina [producer], 1998. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.