Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing

Ethnographic Atlas Crosstabulations: The Standard Cross-cultural Sample

Compare world cultures using the Murdock and White Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS), a controlled sample of Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas. The SCCS is a probability sample of world cultures corrected for regional diffusion effects and auto-correlations, improving the reliability of conclusions you draw from comparisons.

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