Aggregate Data Set Eastern Europe

Aggregate indicators at the level of the country for 7 countries of the
East Bloc from the areas of economy, defense, population and society.

Topics: 1. Population and society: population density; population
growth from 1970 to 1978; infant mortality and life expectancy; degree
of urbanization; rate of provision with running water and sanitary
facilities; residential furnishings and housing conditions; hospital
beds and doctors per capita; proportion of children in kindergartens;
proportion of women in various branchs of the economy; religious
affiliation; divorce rate; training level of the population; education
expenditures; employees in technology and science; scientific book
production; social mobility.

2. Economy: growth rate of the gross national product; GNP per capita;
public investments; merchandise import and export; proportion of
employees and proportion of production in the individual sectors of the
economy; average income; meat consumption and supply of calories; trade
with Comecon countries, capitalist and under-developed countries; trade
deficit and foreign debt; growth of import and export as well as of
income; work productivity; working hours needed for selected goods;
capital intensity; provision of households with telephone, television,
cars and other durable economic goods; energy import and energy use;
employee-worker relationship; development of real income as well as
prices; private savings; income concentration; retail trade index;
hectare yields and proportion of private agriculture.

3. Military: defense expenditures; export of weapons; strength of
military forces; proportion of defense expenditures in gross national
product; number of disturbances and protest demonstrations; armed
attacks and persons killed; sanctions of the government; internal
security forces.

4. Miscellaneous: content analysis of newspapers regarding reports
about human rights, disarmament, economic as well as technical
cooperation and conflicts after adoption of the final agreement of
Helsinki and Belgrad.