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russett: Russett dataset

Description

Data set from Russett (1964) about agricultural inequality, industrial development and political instability.

Usage

data(russett)

Arguments

format

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.

llll{ 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 }

References

Russett B.M. (1964) Inequality and Instability: The Relation of Land Tenure to Politics. World Politics 16:3, pp. 442-454.

Examples

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data(russett)
  russett

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