STATE ORGANIZATION

    Source of Compilation:
    George Peter Murdock, 1957.  World Ethnographic Sample.  American 
    Anthropologist 59: 664-687.

    This variable is extracted from a public domain WES computer deck prepared 
    in the 1960s by David Aberle.  It is the only variable in the WES not 
    superceded by codes in the Ethnographic Atlas.  [It is also reprinted here 
    with permission of the American Anthropological Association].

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1132.  POLITICAL INTEGRATION (WES COL 15; EA VAR 89)

     12    . = Missing data
     48    0 = Insufficient information, or not coded
     10    1 = Absence, even at local level
     46    2 = Autonomous local communities (not > 1,500)
      4    3 = Peace groups transcending local community
     27    4 = Minimal States (1500-10,000)
      9    5 = Little States (10,000-100,000)
     22    6 = States (at least 100,000)
      8    8 = Dependent societies

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