Cultural differences index
-2 = advantaged
-1 = some advantages
0 = no difference
1 = slight difference
2 = substantial difference
3 = major difference
4 = extensive difference
9 = no basis

Political differences index
-2 = advantaged
-1 = some advantages
0 = no difference
1 = slight difference
2 = subtotal difference
3 = major difference
4 = extensive difference
9 = no basis

Nature of electoral system(legislative)
1 = majoritarian
2 = Plurality
3 = Semi-proportional
4 = Proportional

0 = 0
1 = 1
2 = 2
99 = missing values

Type of Political System, Democracy =10
-10 = authoritarian
10 = Most Democratic

Is the country federal or not?
0 = Not Federal
1 = federal

Parliamentary or presidential, ordinal
-1 = authoritarian
0 = presidential
1 = Mixed
2 = parliamentary

Parliamentary or Pres, dichotomous
-1 = authoritarian
0 = presidential
1 = parliamentary

Minorities project region id.
0 = Western Democracies and Japan
2 = E. Europe and the former Soviet Union
3 = Asia
5 = N. Africa and the Middle East
6 = Sub-Saharan Africa
7 = Latin America and the Caribbean

Protest One( Protest in this year)
0 = None reported
1 = Verbal opposition
2 = symbolic acts of resistance
3 = demonstration: <10k
4 = Demonstration<100k
5 = Demonstration >100k
99 = no basis for judgement

rebellion this year
0 = no rebellion reported
1 = political banditry
2 = campaigns of terrorism
3 = local rebellion
4 = small scale guerilla activity
5 = intermediate scale guerilla activity
6 = large scale guerilla activity
7 = protracted civil war
99 = no basis for judgement

Conflict among groups
0 = no
1 = yes

election system recode for PR
0 = other than proportional
1 = proportional

Electoral system, combining major and plural
0 = not major nor plurality
1 = majority or plurality

Pure PR versus all other systems
0 = not pr
1 = pr

Is the system one of proportional democracy (PR and DEM-AUT>0) or not?
0 = all other systems
1 = minimal democracies that are PR