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Description & Citation

Description & Citation--Study No. 5030

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:5030
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05030
 
Title:Economic and Social Indicators for Eighteen Latin American Nations, 1960-1971
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Agency for International Development
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Agency for International Development. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INDICATORS FOR EIGHTEEN LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS, 1960-1971 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05030
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains economic, social, and demographic information for 18 Latin American nations in the period 1960-1971. Data are provided for gross national product (GNP), gross investment, domestic revenues, tax revenues, expenditures, price index, electric power production, agricultural production, and membership in consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperatives. Data are also provided for population characteristics, such as total population, school enrollment, student-teacher ratio, persons-physician ratio, persons-nurse ratio, and persons-hospital bed ratio.
 
Subject Term(s):agricultural production, economic indicators, government expenditures, Gross National Product, population characteristics, price indexes, public health, social indicators, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
 
Geographic Coverage:Global
 
Time Period:1960 - 1971
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
 

Methodology

Sample:A total of 18 Latin American nations in the period 1960-1971.
 
Data Source:(1) Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Statistics and Reports Division, and (2) United States Bureau of the Census. International Demographic Statistics Center
 
Extent of Processing:REFORM.DATA/ SCAN/ REFORM.DOC
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-10
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Economic and Social Indicators for Eighteen Latin American Nations, 1960-1971
 

 

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