A dataset with variables about countries in the world. This dataset is used to demonstrate application of R to political analysis. See book Appendix for variable names and descriptions.
worldA data frame with 167 rows and 103 variables.
Country numerical code
Colony of what country? (CIA)
Confidence in institutions scale (World Values Survey)
Country/territory name (title case)
Country/territory name (title case), may be same as country
Public debt as a percentage of GDP (CIA)
Democratic decentralization, 2008 (UN)
Full or Part Democracy (Economist, 2014)
Regime type (Economist 2014)
Percentage of other democracies in region
Percentage of other democracies in region: 5 categories
Democracy rank, lower scores more democratic (Economist 2014)
Democracy score, higher scores more democratic (Economist 2014)
Is government a democracy? (Based on regime_type3)
Is government a democracy? Coded 0/100 (Based on regime_type3)
Is regime a democracy? (1990)
Is government a democracy? (may be redundant)
Democracy score, 2011 (UN)
Average # of members per district (World Values Survey)
Effective number of parliamentary parties
Number of years since the last regime transition (Polity)
Government effectiveness scale (Kaufmann 2002)
Effective number of parliamentary parties: 3 categories
Effective number of parliamentary parties (World Values Survey)
EU member state (yes/no)
Total fertility rate: Number children born per woman (CIA)
Freedom House rating of democracy (reversed)
Freedom House 1-7 scale reversed, rescaled 0-12
Ethnic factionalization (combined linguistic and racial) (Alesina et al 2003)
Ethnic factionalization (combined linguistic and racial) (Binned)
Level of ethnic fractionalization: 3 categories
Heritage Foundation rating: bus. freedom (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: corruption (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: financial freedom (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: fiscal freedom (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: government spending (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: invest freedom (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: labor freedom (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: monetary freedom (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: overall economic freedom (2010)
4 quantiles of free_overall
Heritage Foundation rating: property rights (2010)
Heritage Foundation rating: free trade (2010)
GDP per capita in 10K US$ (2002)
GDP per capita (US$): 2 categories (2002)
GDP per capita (US$): 3 categories (2002)
GDP in billions in 2008 (World Bank)
GDP per capita (US$) in 2008, 2 categories
GDP per capita (US$) in 2008, 2 categories (may be redundant)
GDP per capita (US$) in 2008 (Binned)
GDP per capita in 2008 (World Bank)
3 quantiles of gdppcap08 (as numeric)
Gender empowerment measure, 3 categories (World Values Survey)
Gender Inequality Index value, 2008 (UN)
Gender Inequality Index rank, 2008 (UN)
Gini coefficient (UN 2004)
Gini coeff (UN 2008)
Income Gini coefficient, 2000-2010 (UN)
Government regulation of religion index, 2008 (CIA)
Human development index (HDI) value, 2010 (UN)
High GDP dummy
Year of independence (CIA)
Percent Women in lower house of legislature, all countries, 2013 (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
Life expectancy at birth among females (CIA)
Life expectancy at birth among males (CIA)
Life expectancy at birth, total population (CIA)
Literacy rate (CIA)
Is Muslim predominate religious group?
Name of country (lower case)
OECD member state (yes/no)
Oil production, in barrels per day (CIA)
Post-materialism, 3 categories (World Values Survey)
Higher scores more democratic (Polity)
Percentage of population age 0-14 (CIA)
Percentage of population age 15-64 (CIA)
Percent of population age 65 and older (CIA)
Median age in years, 2010
Total population in millions, 2010 (UN)
Percentage of the total population living in urban areas, 2010 (UN)
Proportional representation system? (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
Protest activity (World Values Survey)
Regime type (Cheibub's Democracy Dictatorship dataset)
United Nations region
Largest religion by proportion (UN)
Rich democracy, interaction of Hi_gdp*democ_regime
Sex ratio at birth (male births per 100 female births), 2010
Public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP (UN)
Public expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP (UN)
Public expenditure on the military as a percentage of GDP, 2008 (UN)
Union density (www.ilo.org)
Percent growth in the number of Internet users, population based, 2000-2008 (UN)
Internet users per 100 people, 2008 (UN)
Percentage of population below national poverty line, 2000-2008 (UN)
Per capita remittance inflows in US dollars, 2008
Remittance inflows as a percentage of GDP, 2008
Percent saying religion very important, 3 categories
Turnout: most recent election in 2000s (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
Turnout: elections in 1990s (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
Percent women in lower house of legislature, democracies only, 2005 (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
Percent women in lower house of legislature, democracies only, 2009 (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
Percent Women in lower house of legislature, democracies only, 2013 (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
Year women first enfranchised (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
Women's suffrage (Inter-Parliamentary Union)