Data set from Russett (1964) about agricultural inequality, industrial development and political instability.
data(russett)
A data frame with 47 observations on the following 11 variables. The variables may be used to construct three latent concepts: 1) AGRIN
=Agricultural Inequality, 2) INDEV
=Industrial Development, 3) POLINS
=Political Instability.
Num | Variable | Description | Concept |
1 | gini | Inequality of land distribution | AGRIN |
2 | farm | Percentage of farmers that own half of the land | AGRIN |
3 | rent | Percentage of farmers that rent all their land | AGRIN |
4 | gnpr | Gross national product per capita | INDEV |
5 | labo | Percentage of labor force employed in agriculture | INDEV |
6 | inst | Instability of executive (1945-1961) | POLINS |
7 | ecks | Number of violent internal war incidents (1941-1961) | POLINS |
8 | death | Number of people killed as a result of civic group violence (1950-1962) | POLINS |
9 | demostab | Political regime: stable democracy | POLINS |
10 | demoinst | Political regime: unstable democracy | POLINS |
11 | dictator | Political regime: dictatorship | POLINS |
Russett B.M. (1964) Inequality and Instability: The Relation of Land Tenure to Politics. World Politics 16:3, pp. 442-454.