The contingent cooperative: state infrastructure and the juridical-form composition of new organisations in Misiones, Argentina, 1901-2025 (data and code)

Data and analysis code for a population-level study of the formal organisational landscape of the Argentine province of Misiones, 1901-2025. The deposit contains the Misiones subset of the Registro Nacional de Sociedades (14,278 organisations; 14,169 dated), the ARCA fiscal-status enrichment, and the canonical model-free analysis: Shannon diversity with bootstrap confidence intervals, juridical-form composition with exact Poisson intervals, a functional disaggregation of cooperatives, a permutation test of sub-departmental concentration, and current fiscal status by juridical form and period of creation. The central finding is a contingency asymmetry: self-sustaining commercial forms diffuse secularly across state projects of opposed political orientation, whilst the cooperative, whose creation depends on a continuous social-economy apparatus, surges when that apparatus is sustained and reverts to its long-run baseline when it is withdrawn. An earlier correspondence-analysis and sequence pipeline was abandoned because entering the period of creation as an active variable makes the principal axis an axis of time and manufactures a spurious terminal convergence. That pipeline and the diagnostics establishing the defect are retained in archive/ for transparency; no result in the paper is computed from them. Code is released under the MIT licence; data and figures under CC-BY-4.0.