The Ecology-Culture Dataset: a resource for investigating cultural variation (Abbreviated)

Scholars interested in cultural diversity have long suggested that
similarities and differences across human populations might be understood,
at least in part, as stemming from differences in the social and physical
ecologies individuals inhabit. Here, we describe the EcoCultural Dataset
(ECD), the most comprehensive compilation to date of country-level
ecological and cultural variables around the globe. ECD covers 220
countries, 9 ecological variables operationalized by 11 statistical
metrics (including measures of variability and predictability), and 72
cultural variables (including values, personality traits, fundamental
social motives, subjective well-being, tightness-looseness, indices of
corruption, social capital, and gender inequality). This rich dataset can
be used to identify novel relationships between ecological and cultural
variables, to assess the overall relationship between ecology and culture,
to explore the consequences of interactions between different ecological
variables, and to construct new indices of cultural distance. Note: The
full dataset with 72 cultural variables is available on OSF
(https://osf.io/45am7/). This is the abbreviated version (66 cultural
variables).