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Data Used in October 1996
World Politics Article with John Londregan
Before downloading the data, please read the data description below.
World Politics Data (Text File, 574K)
The following is a correspondence between the variables in
this data set and the variables reported in Table 2 on page
15 of our October 1996 World Politics Article:
This Dataset Table 2
Var # Var Name Var Name
----- -------- ------------------------------
7. leave Leader exits
10. tgov Status quo government type (Table 3)
11. tsgt Government type
12. transit Transition
13. entry Nonconstitutional leader
14. pm Leader is a prime minister
15. military Leader had a military career
16. tip Time since leader came to power
17. timed Leader has a CMIP
18. watch Time remaining in leader's CMIP
19. timesup Leader's CMIP expires this year
20. age Leader's age
21. grow Current economic growth rate
22. lgdp1 ln(Per capita income)
23. grow1 Lagged economic growth rate
Note: The tgov variable was left off of Table 2, but it appears
in Table 3 (page 19) as a lagged regressor.
What follws is a description of the contents of the 32 variable,
2,798 observation Stata dataset, followed by summary statistics,
and a list of the code numbers used to record the variable
"country".
Contents of Stata File:
Contains data from world.dta
obs: 2,798
vars: 32 28 May 1999 11:05
size: 369,336 (64.5% of memory free)
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1. country float %9.0g country Country Code Number
2. year float %9.0g Calendar Year
3. order float %9.0g Leader #
4. region float %9.0g Region of the World
5. rchg float %9.0g Regime Changes in This Dataset
6. lchg float %9.0g Leader Changes in This Dataset
7. leave float %9.0g Leader Exit
8. newtype float %9.0g Gov Type: Year's End/ Course
9. currtype float %9.0g Gov Type: Jan 1/ Course
10. tsgt float %9.0g Gov Type: End of Year
11. tgov float %9.0g T(Government Type)
12. transit float %9.0g Transition Regime
13. entry float %9.0g Nonconstitutional Leader
14. pm float %9.0g Leader is 'Prime Minister'
15. military float %9.0g Leader has Military Background
16. tip float %9.0g Time Since Leader gained Power
17. timed float %9.0g Leader has a CMIP
18. watch float %9.0g Time left in CMIP
19. timesup float %9.0g CMIP Expires this Year
20. age float %9.0g Leader's Age
21. grow float %9.0g Current Growth Rate
22. lgdp1 float %9.0g ln(PCI), Last Year
23. grow1 float %9.0g Lagged Growth Rate
24. xchange float %9.0g Exchange Rate
25. lxr1 float %9.0g ln(Exchange Rate), Last Year
26. xchange1 float %9.0g Exchange Rate, Last Year
27. xinv float %9.0g Investment Rate
28. linv1 float %9.0g
29. xinv1 float %9.0g Investment Rate, Last Year
30. chgtype float %9.0g
31. lgdp12 float %9.0g
32. tglgdp1 float %9.0g
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Sorted by: country year
Descriptive Statistics:
. summ
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
---------+-----------------------------------------------------
country | 2798 72.85561 37.61843 1 133
year | 2798 1970.497 9.182056 1952 1985
order | 2798 19.58399 20.67777 1 80
region | 2798 3.847748 2.410733 1 8
rchg | 2798 .5085776 .5000158 0 1
lchg | 2798 1 0 1 1
leave | 2798 .1690493 .3748625 0 1
newtype | 2798 .9399571 .8730487 0 2
currtype | 2798 .9392423 .8729993 0 2
tsgt | 2798 .5683172 2.390914 -3.713572 3.713572
tgov | 2798 .5624295 2.396737 -3.713572 3.713572
transit | 2798 .0207291 .1425014 0 1
entry | 2798 .2548249 .4358406 0 1
pm | 2798 .2862759 .4521007 0 1
military | 2798 .3095068 .4623729 0 1
tip | 2798 4.816297 5.357227 0 30
timed | 2798 .4914224 .5000158 0 1
watch | 2798 1.004646 1.413827 -1 7
timesup | 2798 .0818442 .2741762 0 1
age | 2798 56.50036 11.14476 20 89
grow | 2798 .0216135 .059079 -.5236835 .481144
lgdp1 | 2798 7.716063 1.009638 5.036952 10.80653
grow1 | 2798 .0222436 .0596251 -.5236835 .481144
xchange | 2798 .0644936 .2128702 -.3586134 3.709842
lxr1 | 2798 2.045298 2.292881 -6.907755 13.42467
xchange1 | 2798 .0574462 .1965373 -.4054651 3.709842
xinv | 2798 .0290967 .2032019 -2.694953 2.361744
linv1 | 2798 10.4276 1.487012 5.700577 13.20243
xinv1 | 2798 .0312455 .1998172 -2.694953 1.162947
chgtype | 2798 1.009292 .2964203 0 2
lgdp12 | 2798 60.55663 15.66232 25.37089 116.7811
tglgdp1 | 2798 5.69608 19.63186 -38.24433 36.05865
The same 32 variables appear in wp1096.asc in ascii format, with
a missing value code of ".".
List of Country Codes:
1 ALGERIA
2 ANGOLA
3 BENIN
4 BOTSWANA
5 BURKINA
6 BURUNDI
7 CAMEROON
8 CAPE VER
9 CENTRAL
10 CHAD
11 COMOROS
12 CONGO
13 EGYPT
14 ETHIOPIA
15 GABON
16 GAMBIA
17 GHANA
18 GUINEA
19 GUINEA-B
20 IVORY CO
21 KENYA
22 LESOTHO
23 LIBERIA
24 MADAGASC
25 MALAWI
26 MALI
27 MAURITAN
28 MAURITIU
29 MOROCCO
30 MOZAMBIQ
31 NIGER
32 NIGERIA
33 RWANDA
34 SENEGAL
35 SEYCHELL
36 SIERRA L
37 SOMALIA
38 SOUTH AF
39 SUDAN
40 SWAZILAN
41 TANZANIA
42 TOGO
43 TUNISIA
44 UGANDA
45 ZAIRE
46 ZAMBIA
47 ZIMBABWE
48 BAHAMAS
49 BARBADOS
50 CANADA
51 COSTA RI
52 DOMINICA
53 DOMINICA
54 EL SALVA
55 GRENADA
56 GUATEMAL
57 HAITI
58 HONDURAS
59 JAMAICA
60 MEXICO
61 NICARAGU
62 PANAMA
63 ST.LUCIA
64 ST.VINCE
65 TRINIDAD
66 U.S.A.
67 ARGENTIN
68 BOLIVIA
69 BRAZIL
70 CHILE
71 COLOMBIA
72 ECUADOR
73 GUYANA
74 PARAGUAY
75 PERU
76 SURINAME
77 URUGUAY
78 VENEZUEL
79 AFGHANIS
80 BAHRAIN
81 BANGLADE
82 BURMA(My
83 CHINA
84 HONG KON
85 INDIA
86 INDONESI
87 IRAN
88 IRAQ
89 ISRAEL
90 JAPAN
91 JORDAN
92 KOREA,SO
93 KUWAIT
94 MALAYSIA
95 NEPAL
96 OMAN
97 PAKISTAN
98 PHILIPPI
99 SAUDI AR
100 SINGAPOR
101 SRI LANK
102 SYRIA
103 TAIWAN
104 THAILAND
105 UNITED A
106 YEMEN, N
107 AUSTRIA
108 BELGIUM
109 CYPRUS
110 DENMARK
111 FINLAND
112 FRANCE
113 GERMANY,
114 GREECE
115 HUNGARY
116 ICELAND
117 IRELAND
118 ITALY
119 LUXEMBOU
120 MALTA
121 NETHERLA
122 NORWAY
123 POLAND
124 PORTUGAL
125 SPAIN
126 SWEDEN
127 SWITZERL
128 TURKEY
129 U.K.
130 YUGOSLAV
131 AUSTRALI
132 FIJI
133 NEW ZEAL
134 PAPUA N.
135 SOLOMON
136 TONGA
137 VANUATU
138 WESTERN