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"name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 120, "name": "Libya", "code": "LBY"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 61, "name": "Yemen", "code": "YEM"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 214, "title": "Information Capacity Dataset", "description": "Thomas Brambor, Agust\u00edn Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell created The Information Capacity Dataset for their article \"[The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0010414019843432)\". The Information Capacity Dataset offers numerical data on five institutions and policies that modern states use to collect information about their populations and territories: (1) the regular implementation of a reliable census, (2) the regular release of statistical yearbooks, the operation of (3) civil and (4) population registers, and (5) the establishment of a government agency tasked with processing statistical information. The dataset also includes an overall index of \u201cinformation capacity\u201d for 85 polities from 1750 to 2015.", "producer": "Thomas Brambor et al.", "citationFull": "Brambor, Thomas, Agust\u00edn Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell (2019) \"The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State\", Comparative Political Studies, version of record published online 2019", "urlMain": "http://www.stanceatlund.org/information-capacity-dataset.html", "urlDownload": "http://www.stanceatlund.org/uploads/4/6/2/0/46202583/information_capacity.dta", "dateAccessed": "2023-11-10", "datePublished": "2019-05-27", "license": {"url": "http://www.stanceatlund.org/information-capacity-dataset.html", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}