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Dec 14, 2015
Klein Goldewijk, Kees, 2015, "SO2 Emissions per Capita", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/IRT0YU, IISH Data Collection, V1
Sulfur aerosols impact human health, ecosystems, agriculture, and global and regional climate. A new annual estimate of anthropogenic global and regional sulfur dioxide emissions has been constructed spanning the period 1850–2005 using a bottom-up mass balance method, calibrated... |
Dec 14, 2015
Klein Goldewijk, Kees; Fink-Jensen, Jonathan, 2015, "Silver Production", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/OX6FCP, IISH Data Collection, V1
Silver has been used for thousands of years as ornaments and utensils, for trade, and as the basis for many monetary systems. Of all the metals, pure silver has the whitest color, the highest optical reflectivity, and the highest thermal and electrical conductivity. Also, silver... |
Dec 14, 2015
Klein Goldewijk, Kees, 2015, "Sheep per Capita", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/EPD5LB, IISH Data Collection, V1
Historical sheep statistics from Mitchell are first adjusted to match the FAO statistics in 1961 (FAO presents statistics from 1961-present time). Then, the most historical data found in Mitchell is converted in a simple per-capita number, and this number is kept constant further... |
Dec 14, 2015
Carmichael, Sarah; Dilli, Selin; Rijpma, Auke, 2015, "Sex Ratio", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/RVRFKS, IISH Data Collection, V1
Following Sen (1992), the ratio of girls to boys is used to assess discrimination against women in the area of health. There should be a fixed rate of male to female births in humans (about 5 % more boys than girls). In some countries and regions, however, there are much more boy... |
Dec 14, 2015
Vanhanen, Tatu, 2015, "Polyarchy", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/OS5A57, IISH Data Collection, V1
The value of the Democracy Index by Vanhanen. The value of the index is the ratio of the indices of political Competition and Participation. The former equals the share of votes received by the non-ruling parties in the elections, while the latter is the percentage of population... |
Dec 14, 2015
Marshall, M.G.; Jaggers, K.; Gurr, T.R., 2015, "Polity2 Index", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/HOPFWK, IISH Data Collection, V1
Autocracy-democracy index (polity2)ranging between -10 (total autocracy) and 10 (total democracy) from the Polity IV dataset |
Dec 14, 2015
Klein Goldewijk, Kees, 2015, "Pigs per Capita", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/KRWHME, IISH Data Collection, V1
Estimates of pigs per capita based on historical sources and modelling. |
Dec 14, 2015
Klein Goldewijk, Kees, 2015, "Pasture per Capita", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/ACOPHR, IISH Data Collection, V1
Pasture occupied roughly less than 1% of the global ice-free land area for a long time period until 1000 A.D.. In the centuries that followed the share of global pasture area grew from 2% in 1700 A.D. to 24% in 2000 A.D. (34 million km2). These profound land use changes have had,... |
Dec 14, 2015
Vanhanen, Tatu, 2015, "Political Participation", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/UOKWUF, IISH Data Collection, V1
Component of Vanhanen’s polyarchy index. Political participation is defined as the percentage of adult population that cast a ballot in elections. |
Dec 14, 2015
Marshall, M.G.; Gurr, T.R.; Jaggers, K., 2015, "Regulation of Participation (PARREG)", https://hdl.handle.net/10622/V6AEFF, IISH Data Collection, V1
A component of the polityIV measure. |
