SocioPolitical preprocessor

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Series read into DataSocioPol.bas

Series Name	Category	Description	Source	Last IFs Update	Coverage	Used in preprocessor
SeriesFreedom	Government	Civil and political freedom level on scale of 2 to 14 (lower is freer)	FreedomHouse	2015/07/24	1972 - 2014	SocioPol
SeriesFreedomEcon	Government	Economic freedom level on scale of 1 to 10 (most free)	Fraser International	2016/02/16	1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000-2010	SocioPol
SeriesGovernanceEffect	Government	Governance quality, effectiveness (-2.5 to 2.5, higher is better)	Worldwide Governance Indicators	2013/10/14	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002-2012	SocioPol
SeriesGovernanceRegQual	Government	Governance quality, regulatory quality (-2.5 to 2.5, higher is better)	Worldwide Governance Indicators	2013/10/14	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002-2012	SocioPol
SeriesCorruption	Government	Level of corruption 10 to 0	Transparency International	02/2012	1995 - 2011	SocioPol
SeriesGovWBDoingBusinessCostofStarting	Governance	Cost of registering a business as a percent of per capita income	World Development Indicators	2015/07/14	2003 - 2014	SocioPol
SeriesGovBusinessRegulationIndex	Not in DataDict					SocioPol
SeriesPolityDemoc	Government	Polity project's measure of democracy (0=low;10=high)	Polity Project	2013/10/14	1800 - 2012	SocioPol
SeriesPolityAutoc	Government	Polity project's measure of autocracy (0=low;10=high)	Polity Project	2013/10/14	1800 - 2012	SocioPol
SeriesGEM	SocioPolitical	Gender empowerment measure of the UNDP	UNDP_HDR	2011/08/15	1995, 2001, 2003 - 2009	SocioPol
SeriesEthnic1	SocioPolitical, Conflict	Size of largest ethnic group as percent of population	CIA World Factbook	2013/12/17	2007, 2011	SocioPol
SeriesEthnic2	SocioPolitical, Conflict	Size of second largest ethnic group as percent of population	CIA World Factbook	2013/12/17	1997, 2011	SocioPol
SeriesICTInternet%Pop	Information Communication,Infrastructure	Percent of population on-line	World Development Indicators	2015/07/14	1990 - 2012	SocioPol
SeriesPoliticalEmbeddCOWJDM	Government, Conflict	Measure of country embeddedness in international political systems	JDM	2010/11/16	1945, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965 - 2000	SocioPol
SeriesNPOW	Government	Nuclear warheads, strategic (regardless of size)	Federation of American Scientists website (www.fas.org) as compiled by Timothy Smith	2011/09/30	1945 - 2010	SocioPol
SeriesEUMembership	Government	Member of European Union or predecessors (1=yes)	Constructed from assorted		1960, 2000	SocioPol