Industrialization-Democracy Data

Description

A dataset from Bollen (1989) containing measures of political democracy and industrialization for 75 developing countries in 1960 and 1965. The variables are as follows:

Usage

bollen1989a

Format

A data frame with 75 rows and 9 variables

Details

• y1. freedom of the press, 1960

• y2. freedom of political opposition, 1960

• y3. fairness of elections, 1960

• y4. effectiveness of elected legislature, 1960

• y5. freedom of the press, 1965

• y6. freedom of political opposition, 1965

• y7. fairness of elections, 1965

• y8. effectiveness of elected legislature, 1965

• x1. natural log of GNP per capita, 1960

• x2. natural log of energy consumption per capita, 1960

• x3. arcsin of square root of percentage of labor force in industry, 1960

References

Bollen, K. A. (1989). Structural equation models. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

Results