Var_ID,ID,Name,Description
EA005,EA005-0,0-5%,Zero to 5 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-1,6-15%,6 to 15 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-2,16-25%,16 to 25 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-3,26-35%,26 to 35 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-4,36-45%,36 to 45 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-5,46-55%,46 to 55 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-6,56-65%,56 to 65 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-7,66-75%,66 to 75 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-8,76-85%,76 to 85 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-9,86-100%,86 to 100 percent dependence
EA005,EA005-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA028,EA028-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA028,EA028-1,No agriculture,Complete absence of agriculture
EA028,EA028-2,Casual,"Casual agriculture, i.e., the slight or sporadic cultivation of food or other plants incidental to a primary dependence upon other subsistence practices"
EA028,EA028-3,Extensive/shifting,"Extensive or shifting cultivation, as where new fields are cleared annually, cultivated for a year or two, and then allowed to revert to forest or brush for a long fallow period"
EA028,EA028-4,Horticulture,"Horticulture, i.e., semi-intensive agriculture limited mainly to vegetable gardens or groves of fruit trees rather than the cultivation of field crops"
EA028,EA028-5,Intensive,"Intensive agriculture on permanent fields, utilizing fertilization by compost or animal manure, crop rotation, or other techniques so that fallowing is either unnecessary or is confined to relatively short periods"
EA028,EA028-6,Intensive irrigated,Intensive cultivation where it is largely dependent upon irrigation
EA030,EA030-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA030,EA030-1,Nomadic,Fully migratory or nomadic bands
EA030,EA030-2,Seminomadic,"Seminomadic communities whose members wander in bands for at least half of the year but occupy a fixed settlement at some season or seasons, e.g., recurrently occupied winter quarters"
EA030,EA030-3,Semisedentary,"Semisedentary communities whose members shift from one to another fixed settlement at different seasons or who occupy more or less permanently a single settlement from which a substantial proportion of the population departs seasonally to occupy shifting camps, e.g., during transhumance"
EA030,EA030-4,Impermanent,"Compact but impermanent settlements, i.e., villages whose location is shifted every few years"
EA030,EA030-5,Dispersed homesteads,Neighborhoods of dispersed family homesteads
EA030,EA030-6,Hamlets,Separated hamlets where several such form a more or less permanent single community
EA030,EA030-7,Villages/towns,"Compact and relatively permanent settlements, i.e., nucleated villages or towns"
EA030,EA030-8,Complex permanent,Complex settlements consisting of a nucleated village or town with outlying homesteads or satellite hamlets. Urban aggregations of population are not separately indicated since EA031 deals with community size
EA031,EA031-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA031,EA031-1,<50,Fewer than 50 persons
EA031,EA031-2,50-99,From 50 to 99 persons
EA031,EA031-3,100-199,From 100 to 199 persons
EA031,EA031-4,200-399,From 200 to 399 persons
EA031,EA031-5,400-1000,"From 400 to 1,000 persons"
EA031,EA031-6,1000-5000,"More than 1,000 persons in the absence of indigenous urban aggregations of more than 5,000"
EA031,EA031-7,5000-50000,"One or more indigenous towns of more than 5,000 inhabitants but none of more than 50,000"
EA031,EA031-8,50000+,"One or more indigenous cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants"
EA032,EA032-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA032,EA032-2,Independent families,Independent families (may be nuclear or polygynous)
EA032,EA032-3,Extended families,Extended families
EA032,EA032-4,Clan-barrios,Clan-barrios
EA033,EA033-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA033,EA033-1,Acephalous,"No political authority beyond community (e.g., autonomous bands and villages)"
EA033,EA033-2,One level,"One level (e.g., petty chiefdoms)"
EA033,EA033-3,Two levels,"Two levels (e.g., larger chiefdoms)"
EA033,EA033-4,Three levels,"Three levels (e.g., states)"
EA033,EA033-5,Four levels,"Four levels (e.g., large states)"
EA034,EA034-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA034,EA034-1,Absent,A high god absent or not reported in substantial descriptions of religious beliefs
EA034,EA034-2,Otiose,A high god present but otiose or not concerned with human affairs
EA034,EA034-3,"Active, but not supporting morality",A high god present and active in human affairs but not offering positive support to human morality
EA034,EA034-4,"Active, supporting morality","A high god present, active, and specifically supportive of human morality"
EA042,EA042-NA,Missing for at least 1 activity,Missing data for at least one subsistence activity
EA042,EA042-1,Gathering,Gathering contributes most
EA042,EA042-2,Fishing,Fishing contributes most
EA042,EA042-3,Hunting,Hunting contributes most
EA042,EA042-4,Pastoralism,Pastoralism contributes most
EA042,EA042-5,Casual agriculture,Casual agriculture contributes most
EA042,EA042-6,Extensive agriculture,Extensive agriculture contributes most
EA042,EA042-7,Intensive agriculture,Intensive agriculture contributes most
EA042,EA042-8,Two or more sources,Two or more sources contribute equally
EA042,EA042-9,"Agriculture, type unknown","Agriculture contributes most, type unknown"
EA066,EA066-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA066,EA066-1,Absence of distinctions,"Absence of significant class distinctions among freemen (slavery is treated in EA070), ignoring variations in individual repute achieved through skill, valor, piety, or wisdom"
EA066,EA066-2,Wealth distinctions,"Wealth distinctions, based on the possession or distribution of property, present and socially important but not crystallized into distinct and hereditary social classes"
EA066,EA066-3,Elite stratification,"Elite stratification, in which an elite class derives its superior status from, and perpetuates it through, control over scarce resources, particularly land, and is thereby differentiated from a property-less proletariat or serf class"
EA066,EA066-4,Dual stratification,"Dual stratification into a hereditary aristocracy and a lower class of ordinary commoners or freemen, where traditionally ascribed noble status is at least as decisive as control over scarce resources"
EA066,EA066-5,Complex stratification,Complex stratification into social classes correlated in large measure with extensive differentiation of occupational statuses
EA067,EA067-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA067,EA067-1,Absence of distinctions,"Absence of significant class distinctions among freemen (slavery is treated in EA070), ignoring variations in individual repute achieved through skill, valor, piety, or wisdom"
EA067,EA067-2,Wealth distinctions,"Wealth distinctions, based on the possession or distribution of property, present and socially important but not crystallized into distinct and hereditary social classes"
EA067,EA067-3,Elite stratification,"Elite stratification, in which an elite class derives its superior status from, and perpetuates it through, control over scarce resources, particularly land, and is thereby differentiated from a property-less proletariat or serf class"
EA067,EA067-4,Dual stratification,"Dual stratification into a hereditary aristocracy and a lower class of ordinary commoners or freemen, where traditionally ascribed noble status is at least as decisive as control over scarce resources"
EA067,EA067-5,Complex stratification,Complex stratification into social classes correlated in large measure with extensive differentiation of occupational statuses
EA067,EA067-9,No secondary type,No secondary type
EA068,EA068-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA068,EA068-1,Absence of distinctions,Caste distinctions absent or insignificant
EA068,EA068-2,Despised occupation groups,"One or more despised occupational groups, e.g., smiths or leather workers, distinguished from the general population, regarded as outcastes by the latter, and characterized by strict endogamy"
EA068,EA068-3,Ethnic stratification,"Ethnic stratification, in which a superordinate caste withholds privileges from and refuses to intermarry with a subordinate caste (or castes) which it stigmatizes as ethnically alien, e.g., as descended from a conquered and culturally inferior indigenous population, from former slaves, or from foreign immigrants of different race and/or culture"
EA068,EA068-4,Complex caste stratification,Complex caste stratification in which occupational differentiation emphasizes hereditary ascription and endogamy to the near exclusion of achievable class statuses
EA070,EA070-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA070,EA070-1,Absence of slavery,Absence or near absence of slavery
EA070,EA070-2,"Slavery, nonhereditary","Incipient or nonhereditary slavery, i.e., where slave status is temporary and not transmitted to the children of slaves"
EA070,EA070-3,"Slavery, no info on heritability",Slavery reported but not identified as hereditary or nonhereditary
EA070,EA070-4,"Slavery, hereditary",Hereditary slavery present and of at least modest social significance
EA072,EA072-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA072,EA072-1,Patrilineal heir,Patrilineal heir
EA072,EA072-2,Matrilineal heir,Matrilineal heir
EA072,EA072-3,Nonhered: appointed by auth.,Nonhereditary succession through appointment by some higher authority
EA072,EA072-4,Nonhered: seniority,Nonhereditary succession on the basis primarily of seniority or age
EA072,EA072-5,Nonhered: influence,"Nonhereditary succession through influence, e.g., of wealth or social status"
EA072,EA072-6,Nonhered: election,Nonhereditary succession through election or some other mode of formal consensus
EA072,EA072-7,Nonhered: inf. consensus,Nonhereditary succession through informal consensus
EA072,EA072-9,Absence of office,Absence of any office resembling that of a local headman
EA073,EA073-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA073,EA073-1,Son,Hereditary succession by a son
EA073,EA073-2,Patrilineal heir,Hereditary succession by a patrilineal heir who takes precedence over a son
EA073,EA073-3,Sister's son,Hereditary succession by a sister's son
EA073,EA073-4,Matrilineal heir,"Hereditary succession by a matrilineal heir who takes precedence over a sister's son, e.g., a younger brother"
EA073,EA073-5,Nonhereditary,Nonhereditary
EA073,EA073-9,Absence of office,Absence of any office resembling that of a local headman
EA090,EA090-NA,Missing data,Insufficient information or not coded
EA090,EA090-1,"Absence, even locally","Absence of any politicdal organization even at local level, e.g., where family heads acknowledge no higher political authority"
EA090,EA090-2,Autonomous communities,"Autonomous local communities, i.e., politically independent groups which do not exceed 1500 in average population"
EA090,EA090-3,Peace groups among communities,"Peace groups transcending the local community where the basis of unity is other than political, e.g., derived from reciprocal trade relations, defensive military agreements, or a common cult or age-grade organization"
EA090,EA090-4,Minimal states,"Minimal states, i.e., political integration even at the local level, e.g., where family heads acknowledge no higher political authority (1500 ﾖ 10,000)"
EA090,EA090-5,Little states,"Little states, i.e., political integration in independent units averaging between 10,000 and 100,000 in population"
EA090,EA090-6,States,"States, i.e., political integration in large independent units averaging at least 100,000 in population"
EA090,EA090-8,Dependent societies,"Dependent societies lacking any political organization of their own, e.g., those forming an integral part of some larger political system and those governed exclusively and directly by agents of another and politically dominant society. Colonial governments operating through indirect rule are ignored."
EA113,EA113-NA,Missing data,Missing data
EA113,EA113-1,Rigid,"Rigid, characterized as: non-egalitarian, ascriptive status distinctions, autocratic, hierarchical political system, fixed residence and group membership, central authority, fixed religious rites."
EA113,EA113-2,Flexible,"Flexible, characterized as: egalitarian, achieved status distinctions, autocratic, democratic, federated or stateless political system, ease in residence and group changes, individualized or flexible religious rites."