CPEDB

Comparative Political Economy Database (CPEDB)

Explore Key Data Across Countries and Variables

The Comparative Political Economy Database (CPEDB) provides comprehensive annual data across a wide range of topics, including:

• Demography
• Family/Household
• Class/Labour
• Government and Electoral Democracy
• Inequality (Economic, Political, and Gender)
• Health
• Environment
• Internet
• Macro-Economic and Financial Variables

In its current form, the database includes 727 variables from 12 countries:

• Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Data Coverage and Sources

Most of CPEDB’s data spans from the 1960s–1980s up to 2019–2022. The variables are derived from a wide array of authoritative databases, including:

• OECD (Statistics and Family Databases)
• World Bank
• ILO (International Labour Organization)
• IMF (International Monetary Fund)
• WHO (World Health Organization)
• WIID (World Income Inequality Database)
• OWID (Our World in Data)
• Parlgov (Parliaments and Governments Database)
• V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy)

Using the CPEDB for Research

To help you get started, Dr. D.W. Livingstone and Wally Seccombe have prepared a curated presentation. This video tutorial includes:

• A walkthrough of accessing and navigating the database.
• Insights from select charts covering a slice of the CPEDB’s rich data.
• A Q&A session addressing common queries.

Click here to watch the tutorial.