A companion to a multivariate analysis

 

Arno Tausch

Copenhagen and after. A 175 nation data set from international sources

The debate about globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century is really never-ending. In the following freely available data documentation, provided by the Austrian political scientist Dr. Arno Tausch, recent cross-national data from international sources for 175 countries were especially arranged for global students and researchers of globalization, with a special emphasis on the environment effects of globalization in the wake of the recent Copenhaguen conference.

With the present data set, sociologists, political scientists and economists will be able to exactly statistically estimate the effects of the following variables on global development:

% women in government, all levels

% world population

2000 Economic Freedom Score

Absolute latitude

Annual population growth rate, 1975-2005 (%)

comparative price levels (US=1.00)

foreign savings rate

FPZ (free production zones) employment as % of total population

ln GDP per capita

ln GDP per capita ^2

Membership in the Islamic Conference

military expenditures per GDP

military personnel rate ln (MPR+1)

MNC outward investments (stock) per GDP

MNC PEN – stock of Inward FDI per GDP

MNC PEN: DYN MNC PEN 1995-2005

Openness-Index, 1990 (export-share per GDP + import-share per GDP)

population density

public education expenditure per GNP

UNDP education index

The collected variables as well as the documented first SPSS-results with the 20 independent predictors will hopefully contribute to a more profound international debate about the following processes:

civil and political liberties violations

Closing the economic gender gap

Closing the educational gender gap

Closing the Gender Gap

Closing the health gender gap

Closing the political gender gap

Corruption avoidance measure

Country share in top 500 world universities

Crisis Performance Index

Democracy Measure

Ecological Footprint

Economic Growth 1990-2005

Economic Growth 2009

Economic Growth 2010

Environment Performance Index

ESI Index

female survival at age 65

Gender empowerment measure

Global tolerance index

Happy Life Years

Happy Planet Index

Human Development Index (UNDP)

Infant mortality rate

Labour force participation rate of migrants (both sexes)

Life Expectancy

Life satisfaction

net exports of ecological footprint gha per person

per capita world class universities

quintile ratio inequality top 20% bottom 20%

rule of law

tertiary enrollment

total unemployment rates, immigrants

unemployment

In addition, the data set also enables researchers to estimate the statistical effects of the following additional predictor variables:

¨        budget surpluses or budget deficits per GDP

¨        country benefitting (+) or suffering (-) from unequal exchange (Kohler operationalization) (per GDP)

¨        Ethnic linguistic franctionalization ELF85

¨        GOV EXPENDITURE (B.I; OR C.II; OR C.III + C.IV) (% of GDP) 1995

¨        Immigration – Share of population 2005 (%)

¨        Muslim population share per total population

¨        net international migration rate, 2005-2010

¨        social security expenditure per GDP average 1990s (ILO)

¨        TAXES ON INCOME, PROFITS, & CAPITAL GAINS (A1) (% of GDP)1995

¨        worker remittance inflows as % of GDP

¨        Years of membership in the EU

The data set also documents the increasing social and ecological vulnerabilities of communities and nations the world over, by using  the following cross-national data:

¨        cyclones – average number of tropical cyclones per year

¨        ln (number of people killed by natural disasters per year+1)

¨        Tertiary emigration rate

¨        droughts – average number of droughts per year

¨        earthquakes – average number of earthquakes per year

¨        Carbon emissions per million US dollars GDP

¨        Carbon emissions per capita

Dr. Arno TAUSCH,
Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University

e-mail: arno.tausch@yahoo.de
arno.tausch@uibk.ac.at

Download the Excel File here