russett: Russett dataset

In gastonstat/plspm: Tools for Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-PM)

Russett dataset

Description

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

Usage

data(russett)

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.

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

  data(russett)
  russett

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