CPEDB (Comparative Political Economy Database) Main Dataset and Documentation

The Comparative Political Economy Database (titled CPEDB, Nov 6, 2023) covers the following sections (in order): demography, family/household, 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 725 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 1960 to 1999 and a minority are limited to 2000-2020 or 2021. These variables have been derived from many databases; the main ones are OECD (their Statistics and Family Databases), World Bank, ILO, IMF, WIID (World Income Inequality Database) OWID (Our World in Data) Parlgov (Parliaments and Governments Database) and V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy). For a current list of the variable names and their labels in the CPEDB data base, see the excel file: Outline of SPSS file Main CPEDB, Nov 6, 2023. (Updates to this file will have its later dates registered in the title.) This data base was initially conceived and developed by Dr. Wally Seccombe (independent scholar) and Dr. D.W. Livingstone (Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto). They will continue to participate in its further development. The Institute for Political Economy at Carleton University (including faculty members Justin Paulson, Karen Herbert and Randall Germain) along with Seccombe and Livingstone will be involved in further development and safe storage of this updated database both on the UT dataverse and the IPE at Carleton. When fully developed, the Main CPEDB file will become a valuable resource for researchers in all of the included countries as well as Canada.