Middle East Time Series Data, 1948-1969

This study contains mainly economic data and some select sociopolitical data for Middle East nations, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and United Arab Emirates, in the period 1948-1969. Data are provided on economic aid, energy consumption for public use, oil production, national income, total exports and imports, development budget, defense spending, cost of arms race, cost of living index, consumer price index, and monetary exchange ratio. Additional variables provide sociopolitical information on population, the strength of democratic institutions in the nations, the number of illegitimate changes of government, the ruling party, the strength of traditional elites, military and bureaucracy elites, and religious and landed elites, political centralization, encounters between government forces and guerilla forces, attacks on civilians, attacks on bases and strategic installations, and political mobilizations.

本项研究主要包含中东各国，包括以色列、埃及、伊拉克、约旦、科威特、黎巴嫩、沙特阿拉伯、叙利亚和阿拉伯联合酋长国在1948年至1969年期间的经济数据及部分精选的社会政治数据。数据涵盖经济援助、公共用途能源消耗、石油产量、国民收入、总进出口额、发展预算、国防开支、军备竞赛成本、生活成本指数、消费者价格指数和货币兑换比率。此外，还提供了关于人口、各国民主制度之强度、政府非法更迭次数、执政党、传统精英、军事与官僚精英以及宗教和地主精英的强度、政治集权、政府力量与游击队之间的冲突、针对平民的攻击、针对基地和战略设施的攻击以及政治动员的社会政治信息变量。