Title: Economic and social indicators for eighteen Latin American nations, 1960-1971

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Principal investigator(s): United States. Agency for International Development

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Distributor: Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR 5030)

Date of distribution: 1995-10-11

Access conditions/restrictions: University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, for academic research and teaching purposes only.

Summary: This data collection contains economic, social, and demographic information for 18 Latin American nations in the period 1960-1971. Data are provided for gross national product (GNP), gross investment, domestic revenues, tax revenues, expenditures, price index, electric power production, agricultural production, and membership in consumer, credit, and agricultural cooperatives. Data are also provided for population characteristics, such as total population, school enrollment, student-teacher ratio, persons-physician ratio, persons-nurse ratio, and persons-hospital bed ratio.

Keywords: agricultural production, economic indicators, government expenditures, Gross National Product, population characteristics, price indexes, public health, social indicators

Geographic coverage: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Time period: 1960-1971

Periodicity: annual

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Data type: aggregate time-series statistics

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Unit of observation: country by year

Mode of data collection: Derived statistics from: (1) Agency for International Development. Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination. Statistics and Reports Division, and (2) United States Bureau of the Census. International Demographic Statistics Center

Citation: U.S. Agency for International Development. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INDICATORS FOR EIGHTEEN LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS, 1960-1971 [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05030

Extent of file: 1 data file (216 logical records) & accompanying documentation

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