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CODEBOOK: Countries Data (countries.sav)

This file includes data for all entities listed as independent countries in the 2007 ratings by Freedom House (http://www.freedomhouse.org/).

Missing Data: sysmis (all variables)

Sources: Except as noted, Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook. June 19, 2007 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html). Accessed July 5, 2007.

Notes:

  1. For some variables, The World Factbook provides a single figure for Cyprus, for others it provides separate figures for Greek and Turkish Cyprus. Where possible, the latter figures were added to provide a single figure for the country as a whole, otherwise, they are treated as missing data.
  2. Some values listed for Serbia include Kosovo and/or Montenegro.
  3. Some variables, such as literacy, are defined differently by different countries and data for a given variable may be from different years.

Variable          Variable
Name              Label

name               Country name 
 region             Region of world 
pop                Population
agricult           Percent of GDP from agriculture
industry           Percent of GDP from industry
poverty            Percent of population below poverty line 
unequal            Distribution of family income – Gini index of inequality
literate           Literacy rate 
birthrat           Annual births per 1,000 population
lifeexp            Life expectancy at birth
fertrat            Average number of births per woman
hivlive            Persons living with HIV/AIDS
aiddeath           Annual deaths from AIDS
gdpgrow            Annual percent growth in gross domestic product
gdpcap             GDP per capita (on a purchasing power parity [PPP] basis) in U.S. dollars
inflat             Annual percent change in consumer prices
electric           Annual consumption of electricity in kilowatt-hours
oilcon             Oil consumption (bbl/day)
oilexp             Oil exports (bbl/day)
oilimp             Oil imports (bbl/day)
telephon           Main telephone lines in use
telecell           Mobile cellular telephones in use
internet           Number of Internet users
military           Military expenditures as percent of GDP (on an official exchange rate [OER] basis)
corrupt            Corruption Perceptions Index, 2006  
polright           Political Rights Index, 2007   
civillib           Civil Liberties Index, 2007 

 

name        Country name

region      Region of world  (Based on categories in Yahoo at http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/.  Accessed October 7, 2003.)  

            1     Africa (excluding Middle East )
            2     Asia (excluding Middle East )  
            3     Caribbean
            4     Central America
            5     Europe (including Russia )
            6     Middle East
            7     North America
            8     Oceania
            9     South America

pop         Population

agricult    Percent of GDP from agriculture 

industry    Percent of GDP from industry             

poverty     Percent of population below poverty line 

unequal     Distribution of family income – Gini index of inequality (0 = complete equality; 100 = complete inequality)

literate    Literacy rate

birthrat    Annual births per 1,000 population

lifeexp     Life expectancy at birth

fertrate    Average number of births per woman

hivlive     Persons living with HIV/AIDS   

aiddeath    Annual deaths from AIDS

gdpgrow     Annual percent growth in gross domestic product

gdpcap      GDP per capita in U.S. dollars

inflate     Annual percent change in consumer prices

electric    Annual consumption of electricity in kilowatt-hours

oilcon      Oil consumption (bbl/day)

oilexp      Oil exports (bbl/day)

oilimp      Oil imports (bbl/day)

telephon    Main telephone lines in use

telecell    Mobile cellular telephones in use

internet    Number of Internet users as percent of population

military    Military expenditures as percent of GDP (on an official exchange rate [OER] basis)

corrupt     Corruption Perceptions Index, 2006  A measure of the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians
(0 = most corrupt; 10 = least corrupt). 

            Source: “Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2003.” November 6, 2006 http://www.transparency.org/.  Accessed July 11, 2007.

polright    Political Rights Index, 2007 (1 = highest; 7 = lowest)   
Source: “Freedom House Country Rankings,” http://www.freedomhouse.org/.  Accessed July 11, 2007.

civillib    Civil Liberties Index, 2007 (1 = highest; 7 = lowest) 

 

 

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