V 19 Organizational Complexity Index
999 = missing

V 41 Political Authority
1 = level one, no independent political roles
2 = level two, nascent or incipient centralized authority
3 = level three, political role is definitely
4 = level four, political authority vested in ruling executive
999 = missing

V 42 Judicial Authority
1 = low, there are no procedures for settling disputes
2 = medium, there are procedures institutionalized for disputes
3 = high, there is a permanent authority vested
999 = missing

V 1 Geographical Region
0 = Africa
1 = Circum-Mediterranean
2 = East Eurasia
3 = Insular Pacific
4 = North America
5 = South America

Divorce Frequency
1 = Rare, isolated instances, never
2 = Frequent in first years of marriage and/or before children; rare thereafter
3 = Moderate: a small minority of couples divorce
4 = Common, frequent, not uncommon
5 = Universal or almost universal
999 = Missing

Polygyny Rate
0 = Polyandry
1 = Monogamy prescribed
2 = Monogamy preferred, but exceptional cases of polygyny
3 = Limited polygyny <20% of married males
4 = Full polygyny 20% or more of married males
999 = Missing

1 = Absent or not recorded
2 = Present, no indication of severity
3 = Present and serious, widespread

Total Pathogen Stress
7 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 7
8 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 8
9 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 9
10 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 10
11 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 11
12 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 12
13 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 13
14 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 14
15 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 15
16 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 16
17 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 17
18 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 18
19 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 19
20 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 20
21 = Sum of variables 1253-1259 is 21
999 = Missing

Age of Woman at Time of First Marriage
999 = Missing

Total Pathogen Stress Ordinal
1 = Low
2 = Moderate
3 = High
999 = Missing

Age of Woman at Time of First Marriage
1 = Under 12 years
2 = 12-15 years
3 = 16-17 years
4 = 18-21 years
5 = 22-25 years
6 = 26 years and older
999 = Missing

V 25rev Class Stratification (Huber's Revised)
0 = No Data
1 = Absent
2 = Elite class present buy not hereditary
3 = Dual, hereditary aristocracy and commoners
4 = Complex social classes correlated with occupations
999 = Missing

Patrilineality Scale
1 = Matrilineal
2 = Double or Bilateral
3 = Patrilineal
999 = Missing

Rule of Descent
1 = Patrilineal
2 = Matrilineal
3 = Double
4 = Bilateral
999 = Missing

Patrilocality Scale
1 = Natalocal
2 = Matrilocal or Avunculocal
3 = Ambilocal or Neolocal
4 = Patrilocal
999 = Missing

Post-Marital Residence
1 = Patrilocal
2 = Matrilocal
3 = Ambilocal
4 = Neolocal
5 = Avunculocal
6 = Natalocal
7 = Variable
999 = Missing

Laterality Scale
1 = Very Strongly Matrilateral
2 = Strongly Matrilateral
3 = Moderately Matrilateral
4 = Balanced
5 = Moderately Patrilateral
6 = Strongly Patrilateral
7 = Very Strongly Patrilateral
999 = Missing

Premarital Sex Frequency, Recode
1 = Very high frequency
2 = High frequency
3 = Moderate frequency
4 = Low frequency
5 = Very low frequency
999 = Missiing

Premarital Sex Deterrence Level- Resolved by Brad and Vendula
1 = Very Low Deterrence Level
2 = Low Deterrence Level
3 = Intermediate Deterrence Level
4 = High Deterrence Level
5 = Very High Deterrence Level
999 = Missing data

Pat Certainty, adding the two Premarital Sex Scales
2 = Very Low
4 = Low
6 = Moderate
8 = High
10 = Very High
999 = Missiing

Paternal Certainty
4 = Very Low
8 = Low
12 = Moderate
16 = High
20 = Very High
999 = Missiing

V 2a Mean Annual Rainfall in Inches
1 = 0-10 inches
2 = 10-25 inches
3 = 25-50 inches
4 = 50-75 inches
5 = 75+ inches
999 = missing

V 7 Population of Entire Cultural Group
1 = 0-99
2 = 100-999
3 = 1000-4999
4 = 5000-49,999
5 = 50,000-99,999
6 = 100,000-499,999
7 = 500,000-999,999
8 = 1 million-2 million
9 = 2 million +
999 = missing

V 8 Migration
1 = movement took place more than 500 years ago
2 = movement took place within the past 500 years
999 = missing

V 9 Disasters
0 = Ignored, if there is no data
1 = absent, the ethnographer claims they are absent
2 = there is a ritually expressed fear that they will occur
3 = reported as occurring regularly
4 = a major disaster occurred during the ethnographer's stay
999 = MISSING

V 10 Literacy
0 = majority of the society's population is not literate
1 = minor, but influential number of people are literate
2 = majority of the people are literate
999 = missing data

V 15 Dominant Type of Agriculture
0 = no agriculture
1 = extensive agriculture
2 = intensive agriculture
3 = horticulture
999 = missing

V 16 Use of Animal Drawn Plow
0 = Not Used
1 = Used
999 = missing

V 18 Lenski's (1970) Societal Types
0 = Hunting and gathering,
1 = Simple horticulture
2 = Advanced horticulture
3 = Simple agrarian
4 = Advanced agrarian
5 = Herding
6 = Fishing
999 = missing

V 20 Level of Cultural Evolution
0 = Missing
1 = population less than 100
2 = population between 100 to 199
3 = population between 200 to 399
4 = population between 400 to 999
5 = population between 1,000 to 1,799
6 = population between 1,800 to 4,999
7 = population, 5,000 and above

V 21 Unit of Settlement
0 = Households, hamlets, or scattered rural neighborhoods
1 = Villages or encampments, each with at least 50 people
2 = One or more towns. There are no cities
3 = One or more cities
999 = Missing

V 23 Specialties in Noncommunal Activities
4 = More than 3
999 = Missing

V 26 Caste Stratification
0 = No data
1 = Absent
2 = Ethnic
3 = Occupational, 1 or more despised outcastes
4 = Complex occupations that are hereditary
999 = Missing

V 27 Oppression felt by members of society
0 = No data
1 = no
2 = yes, political domination by another class
3 = yes, political domination by "aliens"
999 = Missing

V 28 Stateless Societies
0 = ignored, society full member
1 = no level of authority above the family
2 = 2 or less
3 = 3 or more
999 = Missing

V 30 Sovereign Groups, Number of
10 = 9 or more
999 = missing

V 32 Nature of Ultimately Sovereign Organization - Territorial
0 = household, hamlet, scattered rural neighborhood
1 = village
2 = district, sector or any political organization
3 = town, city
4 = chiefdom
5 = kingdom
6 = no purely territorial organization
999 = Missing

V 33 Nature of Ultimately Sovereign Organization - Kinship
0 = household
1 = extended family
2 = lineage
3 = gens (sibs)
4 = kindred
5 = clan
6 = phratry
7 = tribe
8 = no kinship organization
999 = Missing

V 34 Ultimately Sovereign Group is a Kinship Unit
0 = no
1 = yes
999 = Missing

V 35 Family Structure Type
1 = H-W
2 = B-Z
3 = B-B
4 = Z-Z
5 = F-S
6 = F-D
7 = M-S
8 = M-D
9 = Parent-Child
10 = Mother-Child
11 = Father-Child
999 = Missing

V 36 Family Structure Pattern
1 = single dyad dominance
2 = dual dyad dominance
3 = dominant-subdominant
4 = multiple dominance
5 = other
999 = missing

V 37 Divorce
1 = rare or infrequent
2 = frequent
999 = Missing

V 38 Individual Stress: Wife Beating
0 = ignored if there is no data
1 = absent, denied by members of society
2 = present, occurs (whether or not it is considered proper)
999 = missing

V 40 Individual Stress: Men's Divorce Freedom
0 = No data
1 = Absent, no divorce allowed or man has grounds or approval
2 = Present, a man is completely free to divorce his wife
999 = missing

V 45 Potential for Increased Wealth
0 = No data
1 = stringently limited by cultural requirements
2 = limited or more accessible to individuals of a group
3 = essentially unlimited, and open to anyone
999 = Missing

V 46 Potential for Increased Power
0 = No data
1 = virtually nonexistent
2 = limited to members of a particular groups or families
3 = essentially unlimited, and open to anyone
999 = missing

V 47 Change in Traditional Values: New Moral Code
0 = no data
1 = no
2 = yes
999 = missing

V 48 Change in Traditional Values: Traditional Authority
0 = no data
1 = no
2 = yes
999 = Missing

V 50 Pacification Date
99999 = Missing

V 51 High God
0 = none
1 = present, otiose
2 = present, active in human affairs but no specific support
3 = present, active in human affairs and gives support
4 = uncertain whether high god is present
999 = missing

V 53 Ancestral Spirits
0 = absent, dead ancestors do not influence the living
1 = present, nature of activity is unspecified
2 = present, aid or punish living humans
3 = present, are invoked by living to assist in earthly affairs
999 = Missing

V 54 Reincarnation
0 = absent
1 = present, in human form
2 = present, in animal form
3 = missing
4 = missing
999 = missing

V 55 Exuvial Magic
1 = present
2 = present, in limited application only
3 = absent, but present in the past
4 = absent
999 = missing

V 60 Influence of Western or World Religion
0 = no missionizing reported
1 = some contact mentioned, not very influential
2 = some contact mentioned, quite influential
3 = world religion present
999 = missing

V 61 Religious Authorities and Leaders
0 = shaman
1 = medicine man
2 = layman alone performs religious rites
3 = bureaucratic priesthood
4 = shaman (and/or medicine man) and layman
5 = shaman (and/or medicine man) and priests
6 = shaman (and/or medicine man), layman and priests
7 = layman and priests
999 = missing

V 62 Collective Power of Religious Authorities
0 = greater than that of political leaders
1 = equal to that of political leaders
2 = nearly as great as that of political leaders
3 = not comparable to that of political leaders
999 = missing

V 63 Degree of Religious Organization
0 = no organization; each religious practitioner is on his own
1 = local organization only and limited in development
2 = local organization only, but highly developed
3 = organization beyond the local level, but not society-wide
4 = society-wide organization
999 = missing

V 64 Calendrical Rites
0 = none
1 = one or two
2 = three to five
3 = over five
999 = missing

V 65 Locus of Participation in Religious Ceremonies
0 = individuals experience events that trigger need to perform
1 = individuals perform religious events within some subgroup
2 = individuals perform religious events as members of community
3 = a priesthood supervises most religious ceremonies
4 = other
5 = missing
999 = missing

V 66 Rank-Order of All Religious Concepts by Importance
0 = high god
1 = superior gods
2 = ancestral spirits
3 = reincarnation
4 = magic
5 = witchcraft
6 = totemism
7 = animism
8 = general spirits
9 = world religion
10 = immanence of the soul
999 = missing

V 67 Spirit Belief Types
1 = spirits absent
2 = spirits neutral
3 = spirits undifferentiated
4 = spirits malicious and capricious
5 = spirits punishing
6 = spirits rewarding and punishing
7 = spirits benevolent and rewarding
999 = missing

V 68 Justificating Movement
0 = no data
1 = absent, denies the presence of a sect of any kind
2 = present, reports the presence of a sect
999 = missing

V 69 Millennial Movement
0 = no data
1 = absent, a sect is absent
2 = present, the sect has for its aim salvation
999 = missing

V 70 Movement Type: Movements Are Ranked
0 = no data
1 = Absent
2 = thaumaturgical and manipulationist
3 = revolutionist response aimed at destruction of current world
4 = conversionist and reformist response with salvation promised
999 = missing

V 71 Religious Versus Secular Orientation: Illness
0 = no data
1 = none
2 = some/few
3 = many
4 = all/most
999 = missing data

V 72 Religious Versus Secular Orientation: Misfortune
0 = no data
1 = none
2 = some/few
3 = many
4 = all/most
999 = missing

V 73 Religious Vs. Secular Orientation: Treatment of Illness
0 = no data
1 = totally absent
2 = present, but their performance is optional and noncritical
3 = present and considered a major contributing factor
999 = missing

V 74 Religious Versus Secular Orientation: Reproduction
0 = missing
1 = totally absent
2 = present, but their performance is optional and noncritical
3 = present and considered a major contributing factor
999 = missing

V 76 Religious Versus Secular Orientation: Death
0 = no data
1 = totally absent
2 = present, but their performance is optional and noncritical
3 = present and considered a major contributing factor
999 = missing data

V 78 Confidence in Religious Authority
0 = no data
1 = no, members of the society continue traditional observances
2 = yes, changing attitudes or the introduction of new methods
999 = missing data

V 79 Orientation Toward Change
0 = missing
1 = no, the world is perceived as constant
2 = yes, the world of today is believed to be different, better
999 = missing

V 80 Prophet Role
0 = no data
1 = no
2 = yes
999 = missing data

V 81 Faith in the Future
0 = no data
1 = absent, such a promise is denied
2 = present, such a promise is made for each man
3 = present, such a promise is made for the society, or man
999 = missing data

V 82 Contact with Historic Religions: Number
0 = Missing Data
1 = None
2 = Some; A Few
3 = Many
4 = Most or All
999 = Missing Data

V 83 Contact with Historic Religions: Participation
0 = no data
1 = rarely
2 = occasionally
3 = regularly
4 = exclusively
999 = missing data

V 84 Cannibalism
0 = absent
1 = present
2 = present, endocannibalism only
3 = present, in limited application only
4 = absent, but present in the past
999 = missing

V 85 Taking of the Scalps or Bones of Victims
1 = present
2 = present, in limited application only
3 = absent, but present in the past
4 = absent
999 = Missing

V 87 Witchcraft Attribution
0 = missing
1 = witchcraft attribution is denied by the reporter
2 = witchcraft is stated to be extremely uncommon
3 = witchcraft attribution is stated to be uncommon
4 = witchcraft is alluded to, without any commitment
5 = words are used implying that witchcraft is common
6 = words are used implying that in general witchcraft is common
7 = deaths except those to warfare or age
8 = deaths except those to warfare to be result of witchcraft
9 = deaths except to warfare believed to be result of witchcraft
10 = illness believed to be results of witchcraft
11 = all deaths whatsoever believed to be results of witchcraft
12 = all deaths and illness believed to be results of witchcraft
missing

V 88 Individual Stress: Witchcraft Accusation
0 = no data
1 = absent, death due to witchcraft is denied
2 = weak, death due to witchcraft is alluded to
3 = strong, death due to witchcraft is reported as more common
4 = strongest, people are reported executed for witchcraft
999 = missing

V 89 Frequency of Warfare
1 = absent
2 = low
3 = moderate
4 = high
999 = missing

V 90 Initiation of War
1 = no leader who can declare war
2 = leader who can declare war
999 = missing

V 91 Military Organization
1 = no standing army, no special war leaders
2 = special war leaders, no standing army
3 = special war leaders and standing army
999 = missing

V 92 Social Warfare
1 = absent
2 = present
999 = missing

V 98 Type of Warfare
1 = internal warfare only
2 = external warfare only present
999 = missing

V 99 Degree of Threat from Armed Attacks by Alien Societies
0 = little or no likelihood of such attacks
1 = some, but not certain
2 = considerable, attacks are certain to occur
999 = missing

V 100 Drunken Brawling
0 = no data
1 = absent
2 = present
999 = missing

V 101 Male Insobriety
0 = no data
1 = extreme, excessive drinking
2 = moderate, drinking ends in intoxication, not regular
3 = rare, intoxication is restrained, drinker never become drunk
999 = missing

V 102 Suicide Wordage Ratio: 9 pt. Scale for Amount of Publication Devoted to Suicide
0 = missing data
999 = missing data

V 103 Defiant Homicide
0 = missing
1 = absent or infrequent
2 = frequent
999 = missing

Primary Marriage Transaction
0 = None
1 = Groom Service
2 = Bride Service
3 = Groom Wealth
4 = Bride Wealth
5 = Dowry from Bride's Parents
6 = Dowry from Groom's Parents
7 = Gifts to Groom's Parents
8 = Gifts to Bride's Parents
9 = Gift Giving to Br & Gr
10 = Gift Exchange
11 = Women Exchange
999 = Missing

Groom Service, Bride Serves Groom's Family
0 = Absent
1 = Present
999 = Missing

Marriage Transactions Reported by Schlegel
1 = Bride Price
2 = Bride Service
3 = Token Bride Price
4 = Gift Exchange
5 = Woman Exchange
6 = Absence
7 = Dowry
8 = Indirect Dowry or Bride Price plus Dowry
999 = Missing

Outline of World Cultures Name
0 = None
1 = To Bride's Parents
2 = To Bride and Groom
3 = Gift Exchange
4 = Women Exchange