Details

Subject(s)

• Jewish-Arab relations [Browse]
• Middle East—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Middle East—Politics and government—1945- [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 5014. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 5014

Restrictions note

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

Summary note

This study contains mainly economic data and some select sociopolitical data for Middle East nations, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and United Arab Emirates, in the period 1948-1969. Data are provided on economic aid, energy consumption for public use, oil production, national income, total exports and imports, development budget, defense spending, cost of arms race, cost of living index, consumer price index, and monetary exchange ratio. Additional variables provide sociopolitical information on population, the strength of democratic institutions in the nations, the number of illegitimate changes of government, the ruling party, the strength of traditional elites, military and bureaucracy elites, and religious and landed elites, political centralization, encounters between government forces and guerilla forces, attacks on civilians, attacks on bases and strategic installations, and political mobilizations.

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text and PDF)

Time and place of event

Start: 1948; and end: 1969.

System details

Mode of access: Intranet.

Methodology note

Universe: A total of nine Middle East nations.

Contents

Part 1: Data File

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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