Dataset: Information Capacity Dataset

About this Dataset

Information Capacity Dataset

Thomas Brambor, Agustín Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell created The Information Capacity Dataset for their article "The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State". The Information Capacity Dataset offers numerical data on five institutions and policies that modern states use to collect information about their populations and territories: (1) the regular implementation of a reliable census, (2) the regular release of statistical yearbooks, the operation of (3) civil and (4) population registers, and (5) the establishment of a government agency tasked with processing statistical information. The dataset also includes an overall index of “information capacity” for 85 polities from 1750 to 2015.

Tables

Information Capacity Dataset

@owid.information_capacity_dataset.owid_information_capacity_dataset

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CREATE TABLE owid_information_capacity_dataset (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "statagency" INTEGER,
  "census" INTEGER,
  "first_moderncensus" FLOAT,
  "register_based_census" INTEGER,
  "yearbook_published" INTEGER,
  "yearbook_coverage" INTEGER,
  "civreg" FLOAT,
  "popreg" FLOAT,
  "statag_intro" FLOAT,
  "censusgraded_ability" INTEGER,
  "ybcov_ability" INTEGER,
  "infcap_irt" FLOAT,
  "infcap_pca" FLOAT,
  "census_10_years" INTEGER,
  "register_based_census_10_years" INTEGER,
  "statagency_region" INTEGER,
  "census_region" INTEGER,
  "register_based_census_region" INTEGER,
  "civreg_region" FLOAT,
  "popreg_region" FLOAT,
  "census_10_years_region" INTEGER,
  "register_based_census_10_years_region" INTEGER
);