If you decide to use these data, please cite the source as follows:
Rupasingha, A., Goetz, S. J., & Freshwater, D. (2006). The production of social capital in US counties. Journal of Socio-Economics, 35, 83-101. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.001.
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Definitions of variables used in our 1990 social capital data set.
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The definitions for each of the social capital variables for the data from 1997, 2005, 2009.