Interpretative Essays of Historical Statistics

on Latin America in World Context

 

STATISTICALLY MEASURING CHANGE

IN

LATIN AMERICA AND THE WORLD

 

VOLUME 1 OF 4

 

SEMINAR IN HISTORICAL STATISTICS

 

UCLA

 

PROFESSOR JAMES W. WILKIE

 

Winter 2012

 

The articles included here were originally

Developed in the Graduate Seminar and Published

in or under the auspices of the

Statistical Abstract of Latin America (SALA)

And its Supplement Series.

 

(Copyright by UCLA Latin American Center Publications)

 

 

  CONTENTS

 

Themes and Titles

 

 

I Defining Concepts

 

J. Wilkie. "On Defining the Concepts of Latin America. The Caribbean. and Economically Questionable Nations--EQNs" (1985)

 

J. Wilkie. "SALA's Coals, Organization, and Scope" (1986)

 

J. Wilkie. "On the Accuracy of Statistics and Development of Time-Series Data" (1978)

 

J. Wilkie. "The Management and Mismanagement of National and International Statistical Resources in the Americas" (1982)

 

J. Wilkie. John C. Super. Edna Monzón de Wilkie. "A Social Census Questionnaire for Latin America" (1977)

 

Susan Schroeder. "Introduction." Cuba; A Handbook of Historical Statistics" (1982)

 

 

II. Historiography

 


Enrique C. Ochoa. "A Guide to Quantitative Research on Nicaragua Since independence" (1989)

 

 

 

III. Communications

 

Thomas M. Laichas. "Mexico in the U.S. Press: A Quantitative Study. 1972-1978" (1980)

 

Daniel l. Geffner. "Alternative interpretations of Time-Series Data on the Growth of the Latin American Film Industry. 1929-1970" (1978)

 

 

 

IV. Democracy and Politics

 

Kenneth F. Johnson. "Research Perspectives on the Revised Fitzgibbon-Johnson Index of the Image of Political Democracy in Latin America. 1945-1975" (1977)

 

Kenneth F. Johnson. "Measuring the Scholarly Image of Latin America Democracy. 1945-1970" (1976)

 

Kenneth F. Johnson. "The 1980 Image-Index Survey of Latin American Political Democracy" (1982)

 

Roderic A. Campo "Losers in Mexican Politics: A Comparative Study of Official Party Precandidates for Gubernatorial Elections. 1970-1975" (1977)

 

Roderic A. Camp "Mexican Military Leadership in Statistical Perspective Since the 1930s" (1980)

 

 

V. Religious change

 

T.D. Proffitt. III. "Protestant Church Growth in Twentieth-Century Central America and the Caribbean" (1982)

 

 

 

VI. War and Political Conflict

 

Adam Perkal. "Losses and Lessons of the 1982 War for the Falkland Islands" (1984)

 

Manuel Moreno-Ibáñez. "On Measuring Political Conflict in Latin America, 1948-1967" (1980)