Details

Subject(s)

• Expenditures, Public—Statistics [Browse]
• Population—Statistics [Browse]

Related name

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Statistics [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 7413. [More in this series]
• ICPSR ; 7413

Restrictions note

Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This dataset merges 1972 data on social and military expenditures in 132 nations selected from WORLD MILITARY AND SOCIAL EXPENDITURES, 1974 (see Data Source) with information on demographic attributes of the same nations in 1972 obtained from WORLD POPULATION, 1973 (ICPSR 5032), collected by the United States Bureau of the Census. Military expenditures as well as international peacekeeping, public education, public health, and foreign economic aid expenditures are presented as both raw and per capita measures. Other information includes number of teachers, school age population per teacher, illiteracy rates, number of qualified physicians, population per physician, infant mortality rates, and population per soldier.

Notes

• Codebook available in print and electronic format.
• Title from title screen (viewed on February 15, 2006).

Type of data

Extent of collection: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + OSIRIS dictionary + SAS data definition statements + SPSS data definition statements.

Time and place of event

• Date(s) of collection: 1973.
• Time period: 1972.

System details

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Data format: Logical Record Length with SAS and SPSS data definition statements.
• Extent of processing: REFORM.DATA/ MDATA.ICPSR/ UNDOCCHK.ICPSR/ CDBK./ DDEF.ICPSR.

Methodology note

• Data source: (1) Sivard, Ruth Leger. WORLD MILITARY AND SOCIAL EXPENDITURES, 1974. New York, NY: Institute for World Order, 1974. (2) WORLD POPULATION, 1973 (ICPSR 5032).
• Universe: 132 nations worldwide.

Cite as

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. NATIONAL POPULATION AND GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES, 1972 [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1976.

Title on accompanying codebook

• National population and expenditures, 1972

OCLC

175313092

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