Date of origination:  8/10/95
Collected by:  Michele Claibourn 
Last modified:  08/10/95 by MPC
		11/25/95 by PSM

Description:  This dataset contains data on the number of women in 
    state legislatures for the 50 states, along with the party 
    composition of the state legislatures, female labor force 
    participation rate, and female college enrollment rates.  

Source:  U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the 
    United States, 1994.

Number of observations: 50

Note:  The party variables contain missing data for Nebraska.

Variables:  There are 27 variables in this data file.
1. state = state name (alphabetic, 20 characters)
2. region = region of country
	1. Northeast
	2. Midwest
	3. South
	4. West
3. division = division within region
	1. Northeast-New England
	2. Northeast-Middle Atlantic
	3. Midwest-East North Central
	4. Midwest-West North Central
	5. South-South Atlantic
	6. South-East South Central
	7. South-West South Central
	8. West-Mountain
	9. West-Pacific
4. culture = Elazar's state political culture assignments
	1 = moralistic
	2 = individualistic
	3 = traditionalistic
5. womleg = number of women in state legislatures, 1993
6. stateleg = total number of state legislatures, 1992 [calculated 
   as: repst1+demst1+repst2+demst2; except for Nebraska, which is 49]
7. pctwmleg = percentage of state legislature that is female, 1993 
   [calculated as: (womleg/stateleg)*100]
8. laborfem = female labor force participation rate (percent of 
   females in the civilian labor force), 1993
9. enroll = total college enrollment, 1992
10. males = male college enrollment, 1992
11. females = female college enrollment, 1992
12. demst1 = democratic state legislators in lower house, 1992
13. repst1 = republican state legislators in lower house, 1992
14. demst2 = democratic state legislators in upper house, 1992
15. repst2 = republican state legislators in upper house, 1992
16. demtot  = total number of state legislators that are democrats
	Calculated as: demst1 + demst2
17. reptot = total number of state legislators that are republicans
	Calculated as: repst1 + repst2
18. dempct = percent of state legislators that are democrats
	Calculated as: (demtot/stateleg)*100
19. reppct = percent of state legislators that are republican
	Calculated as: (reptot/stateleg)*100
20. femenr =  percent of college enrollement comprised of women
	Calculated as: (females/enroll)*100
21.  ba90 = total number of people with bachelor's degree
22.  bapct Percent of total population with BA
23.  area ="Total land area"
24.  density ="Population density"
25.  pcinc93 ="Per capita income"
26.  pop  ="Total population
27.  south ="1 if south; 0 otherwise"


First three observations:
"Alabama"          3          6          3          8
      140        5.7       53.6     230537     103724     126813         82
       23         27          8     258231      17234      50750       79.6
 55.00766        109         31   77.85714   22.14286    4039700   .0639233
        1
"Alaska"          4          9          2         13
       58       22.4       66.2      30902      12642      18260         20
       18         10         10      48617      22846     570374          1
 59.09003         30         28   51.72414   48.27586     570374   .0852371
        0
"Arizona"          4          8          3         30
       90       33.3       53.4     275599     126545     149054         25
       35         12         18     306554      18121     113642       32.3
 54.08365         37         53   41.11111   58.88889    3670637   .0835152
        0

Last three observations:
"WestVirginia"          3          5          3         22
      134       16.4         45      90252      40243      50009         79
       21         32          2      88136      16209      24087       74.5
 55.41041        111         23   82.83582   17.16418    1794482    .049115
        1
"Wisconsin"          2          3          1         36
      131       27.5       65.9     307902     137659     170243         51
       47         16         17     375603      19811      54314       90.1
 55.29129         67         64   51.14504   48.85496    4893692   .0767525
        0
"Wyoming"          4          8          2         22
       90       24.4       62.2      31548      13672      17876         19
       41         10         20      36354      19539      97105        4.7
 56.66286         29         61   32.22222   67.77778   456393.5    .079655
        0