The Comparative Political Economy Data Base (CPEDB) is a unique open access data base that, in its current form, contains annual data on 727 variables from 12 advanced capitalist countries:
- Canada
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Japan
- Norway
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- United States
The CPEDB is intended to serve as a comparative resource base for studies in the following areas:
- demography
- family/household
- class/labour
- government
- electoral democracy
- inequality (economic, political & gender)
- health
- environment
- internet
- macro-economic and financial variables
The CPEDB was initiated by Dr. D. W. Livingstone and very largely constructed by Dr. Wally Seccombe. Some of the variables in the data base date back to 1928; most date from the 1950s with annual data for all ending in recent years. These variables have been derived from many databases, including OECD (their Statistics and Family Databases), World Bank, ILO, IMF, WHO, WIID (World Income Inequality Database), OWID (Our World in Data), Parlgov (Parliaments and Governments Database), and V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy).
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The CPEDB is available for public use under a Creative Commons license on Borealis.
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