CPEDB Main Dataset and Documentation

The CPEDB (Nov 6, 2023 version) covers the following areas (in order): demography, family/household, class/labour, government, electoral democracy, inequality (economic, political & gender), health, environment, internet, macro-economic and financial variables. In its present form, it contains annual data on 727 variables from 12 countries (alphabetically listed): Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Some of the variables date back to the early 20th Century, and most date from the 1960s to 1980's up to 2019 to 2022. For a complete list of the variable names and their labels in the current CPEDB SPSS file, see the excel file Outline of CPEDB file of Nov 6, 2023, variables and charts.