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Replication of Pat Nolan's analyses with Ethnographic Atlas and Standard Cross-Cultural Sample.  Based on description of coding of types of societies in Nolan, Patrick and Gerhard Lenski.  1999. Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology.  (8th edition.)  New York: McGraw-Hill.  Appendix pp. 419-421.
 
 
Variables in the Ethnographic Atlas (EA) and the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS) used to define societal types in Gerhard Lenski's typology
EA SCCS Description
V1 V203 Gathering, Dependence on
V2 V204 Hunting, Dependence on
V3 V205 Fishing, Dependence on
V4 V206 Animal Husbandry, Dependence on
V5 V207 Agriculture, Dependence on
V44 V248 Sex Differences: Metal Working (Category 9 - Absent or unimportant activity, n=516)
V55 [V249]
V254
Age or Occupational Specialization: Metal Working (Category 9 - Task absent or age/occupational specialization absent, n=533) Note: in the current version of SCCS this variable is V254 (V249 now concerns Weaving, not Metal Working); V254, Category 9 is described in the SCCS simply as "Activity absent", n=533
V39 V243 Animals and Plow Cultivation (Category 2 - Not aboriginal but well established at period of observations, n=18; Category 3 - Aboriginal prior to contact, n=141)
V40 V244 Predominant Type of Animal Husbandry (Category 4 - Equine animals (horses, donkeys), n=64)

Questions to Pat Nolan about definition of societal types in Appendix of Human Societies 8e (pp. 419-421):