Political Systems Performance Data: France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, 1850-1965

For this study of political systems performance, time-series data were compiled for France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom on a quinquennial basis for the period 1850-1965. Information is provided for each country on population characteristics, such as the number of total population, the number of total population aged 0 to 4, 0 to 14, and 65 and older, births per 1,000 population, life expectancy, deaths per 1,000 population, infant deaths per 1,000 live births, the number of pupils enrolled in elementary and secondary schools, the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities, the number of teachers in secondary schools, and the number of civil servants, doctors, midwives, and hospital beds. Economic variables provide information on the Gross National Product (GNP), price index, number of patents issued, energy consumption, maximum income tax rate, government revenue from income tax, amount of public debt in millions, total public expenditures on defense, education, pension, welfare, health, veterans' benefits, and labor, labor union membership, the number of total work force employed in agriculture, the amount of agricultural production, the percentage of working-age population unemployed, the number of people on welfare, and the number of people receiving public pensions. Additional variables provide information on the voting population, the population voting for left-wing parties, population residing in cities over 20,000 in size, and population residing in the three largest cities. Three political indexes, the Cutright Index of Political Development, the Flanigan-Fogelman Index of Democratization, and an index indicating the ideology of the regime for each year, are also provided for the purpose of crossnational comparisons.