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PD-Plus http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Plus.xls
population, infant mortality from US Census International Data Base,
1980-2000; world factbook (infant mortality, gdp per capita, literacy,
population, phone lines and per capita); freedom; contestation; quality
of life; FAO food security; unesco literacy. These latter data are not
public domain and must be cited appropriately, but anyone is free to
use this data set for non commercial purposes. The data set is large
and best downloaded using a fast connection. NOTE: I made slight
corrections to infant mortality rate data, Nov 5th 2005. Added
religion, in January 2009.
PD-Data http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Data.xls
population infant mortality and life expectancy by country from US
Census
International Data Base, 1980-2000. All data are public domain. If you
would like the data in another format, please let me know.NOTE: I made
slight corrections to infant mortality rate data, Nov 5th 2005.
PD-Data2 http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Data2.xls
world factbook (migration, infant mortality, gdp per capita, literacy,
population, phone lines and per capita), International database (infant
mortality), USDA data (food expenditure as percent of total
expenditures, percent of food expenditure by type of food). All data
are public domain. If you
would like the data in another format, please let me know.
PD-data-cia http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_data_cia.xls
World Factbook, popluation, GDP, area, coastline,
revenues, expenditure, inequality index, ethnic distributions, phone
lines, % land cultivated, % of economy in industry, birthrate,
deathrate, infant mortality rate, a few other variables. CSV versions
are here
http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_data_cia.csv
and http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_data_cia_nine_comma.csv
the variable "end" in the last column is just a placeholder. The first
data set has blanks for missing. The second uses -9.99 for missing.
PD-Data-Aggregate http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD-Data-aggregate.xls
Population trends aggregated by more/less developed and by
regions.
Human Rights / Freedom Data http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/us_dostate_freedom_may3.xls
data from US Department of State and from Freedom
House. These two sources correlate 0.77. Ratings from the
DOS are public domain.
Population data http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/censuspop08.xls
population, continent and countries, 1969 to 2008. Also available
in open office format
http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/censuspop08.ods
USDA GDP data http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/ersallcombine.xls
GDP and GDP per capita, population, by world region and countries, 1970
to 2007.
Updated version (to 2008) is here http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/popgdpgdppercapita.xls
and available in OpenOffice format
http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/popgdpgdppercapita.ods
Eia_gdp http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/eia_gdp.xls
GDP and GDP per capita, population, energy consumption per capita,
energy production 1980-2002, by world region. Data had been on the US
Energy
Information Administration web site. Similar data are now on the USDA
web site. See above and PD_useful.xls below.
Energy consumption by type. http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/tablee1_compareconsume.xls
Data from the US Energy
Information Administration. Energy consumption by type (petroleum, gas,
nuclear, etc). 1980, 90, 95, 2000 and 2004.
Pop-energy http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/pop_energy.xls
Population, energy consumption, energy consumption per capita,
energy production, energy production, energy production per capita,
1980-2002, countries and by world region. Data had been from from the
US Energy
Information Administration, now GDP data are at USDA.
CIA World Factbook data, energy consumption, some International
Database from the US Census http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/PD_useful.xls
also includes a few other variables such as freedom, quality of life,
food security.
Age structure http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/age.xls
from the US Census Bureau.
Religion http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/religion.xls
data from World FactBook, percent of population in countries
which are Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and None.
FAO Food Deprivation trends http://gsociology.icaap.org/data/undernourishment.ppt
powerpoint slides of undernourishment trends, developing world, by
regions, 1969-2002. Data from FAO.
Demographic data from US Census International Data Base, including
population,
births, infant mortality, and age distribution (% age under 5 and % age
65 and over), and Barro and Lee, percent of population with no
schooling.
US Census data is public domain, but not so easy to work with, so we've
reformatted the data set. Click here
to download just the US Census data set in zip format, as lotus123 and
excel. Click here
to download the US Census combined with Barro and Lee's data, just in
lotus
format.
last updated 2/9/09
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