|
Dataset/
Institution(s)/
Developer(s)*
|
Main Content and Concept Measured/
Number of Indicators*
|
Data Source*
|
Number and Names of Countries
or Areas Covered*
|
Period Covered/
Periodicity*
|
Comments*
|
|
|
Information about acts of political
violence.
|
Data and information culled from
direct testimonies and documentary and
press sources.
|
|
1960-96.
|
|
|
Africa
Competitiveness Report: Global Competitiveness
Report
World
Economic Forum
|
Political, economic and social
factors that affect each country's competitiveness.
Countries ranked in the following areas:
openness, government, finance, infrastructure,
labor and institutions.
|
Data from enterprise surveys (EOS)
and analyses from economists and other
in-country experts.
|
24
29
25
Africa
|
1998
2000-2001
2003
Irregular intervals
|
|
|
Africa
Governance Report
United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Kempe Ronald Hope
|
Progress towards good governance
in Africa. 83 indicators covering three
categories: Political Representation,
Institutional Effectiveness & Accountability
and Economic Management & Corporate
Governance.
|
Opinions of national expert panels,
household surveys and data and information
from desk research.
|
28
Africa
|
2004
Annual
|
To be published annually covering
different themes.
|
|
Afro Barometer - Popular
Attitudes to Democracy
Institute for Democracy in South Africa
(IDASA), Ghana Centre for Democratic Development
(CDD-Ghana), Michigan State University
(MSU) Department of Political Science
|
Social, political and economic
atmosphere in Africa.
|
Perception based household surveys
(sample designed as a representative cross-section
of all citizens of voting age in a given
country)
|
Round 1: 12
Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali,
Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Round 2: 15
(Round 1, not including Zimbabwe; adding
Cape Verde, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal)
|
Round 1: 1999-2000
Round 2:
2002-2003
Irregular Intervals
|
Round 3 surveys planned for 2005
in at least 16 countries.
|
|
Aggregate Governance
Indicators (KK) Dataset
World
Bank
Daniel Kaufmann,
Aart Kraay,
Massimo Mastruzzi
|
Perception-based governance indicators
developed by the World Bank Institute
for all countries at an aggregate level
and are used to create awareness and debate
globally and within countries on their
performance on six different dimensions
of governance: control of corruption;
rule of law; voice and accountability;
government effectiveness; political stability;
quality of regulation.
|
Official data & documents/
Surveys of enterprises, citizens and experts/
published and unpublished information
from other international organizations.
|
209
Worldwide
|
1996-2004
Every two years
|
|
|
Arab
World Competitiveness Report: Global Competitiveness
Report
World
Economic Forum
|
Political, economic and social
factors that affect each country's competitiveness.
Countries ranked in theh following areas:
openess, government, finance, infrastructure,
labour and institutions.
|
Data from enterprise surveys (EOS)
and analyses from economists and other
in-country experts.
|
16
Middle East and North Africa
|
2002-2003
Irregular intervals
|
|
|
Asia Intelligence
Political & Economic Risk
Consultancy
|
Political and economic risks.
Topics such as corruption, business costs,
nationalism, foreign investment trends,
etc. are examined from the perspective
of each individual country covered as
well as from a regional overview.
|
Survey of expatriate business
executives (qualitative assessment and
quantitative data).
|
14
Asia
|
1969-1990
Twice monthly
|
Subscription required.
|
|
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic
Governance Capacity Building Survey
Center for International Economics
and Australian Government
|
Scope for additional capacity
building cooperation in economic governance
in the areas of public sector governance,
corporate governance and financial systems.
|
Reports from international financial
institutions and consultations with stakeholders
and officials.
|
6
Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
|
1998
One time
|
Data published in the APEC Economic Governance
Capacity Building survey report.
|
|
|
|
Dataset/
Institution(s)/
Developer(s)*
|
Main Content and Concept Measured/
Number of Indicators*
|
Data Source*
|
Number and Names of Countries
or Areas Covered*
|
Period Covered/
Periodicity*
|
Comments*
|
|
Basic Workers' Rights
International Labour Organization
|
Actual progress or deterioration
of workers' rights.
|
Survey of governments, employers
and workers' organizations.
|
166
Worldwide
|
1985-present
Annual
|
|
|
Bribe Payers Index
(BPI)
Transparency International, Gallup
|
Measures the supply side of bribery:
the relative propensity to pay bribes
by companies from leading exporting countries
when they do business abroad. Countries
are ranked on a 10-point scale.
|
Questionnaires and surveys (interviews
conducted with private sector leaders,
lawyers, bankers, chamber of commerce
etc in the various countries).
|
19
21
World's leading export economies
|
1999
2002
Irregular intervals
|
TI plans to carry out the surveys,
every two years or so.
|
|
Bureaucratic
Structure and Performance: African Bureaucratic
Structure Survey
United Nations University (UNU)
Julius Court
|
Bureaucracies and perceptions
of corruption. Uses five summary indicators:
agency power, autonomy, career opportunities,
private sector career, relative wage.
|
Data from Evans-Rauch database, WDR 1997 report and UNU
survey.
Surveys of high-level bureaucrats
conducted by local experts.
|
50
Worldwide
|
1970-1998
|
Twenty of the fifty countries
are African.
|
|
Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey
(BEEPS)
(BEEPS
I)
(BEEPS II)
World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD)
Joel Hellman,
Daniel Kaufmann,
James Anderson
|
Quality of governance, the investment
climate and the competitive environment.
|
Firm surveys.
|
22
27
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
|
1999
2002
Irregular intervals
|
Over 4,000 firms in 22 countries
in 1999 and over 6,000 firms in 27 countries
in 2002.
|
|
Business Environment
Risk Intelligence (BERI)
(Business Risk Service)
BERI S.A.
|
Assessment of operating conditions,
political risk and the foreign exchange/external
accounts position of countries. Components:
the Political Risk Index, the Operations
Risk Index and the Remittance and Repatriation
Factor.
|
Aggregate measure from panels
of professional opinions.
|
50
Worldwide
|
1984-2002
Thrice yearly
|
BERI's rating system permits comparisons
between countries for the past, the present,
and for one- and five-year forecast periods.
The BRS is published three times a year:
April, August, and December.
|
|
|
|
Dataset/
Institution(s)/
Developer(s)*
|
Main Content and Concept Measured/
Number of Indicators*
|
Data Source*
|
Number and Names of Countries
or Areas Covered*
|
Period Covered/
Periodicity*
|
Comments*
|
|
Centre d'Etudes
et Recherches sur le Développement International
(CERDI), Université d'Auvergne
|
Economic growth and sustainable
reform in Africa. Uses five structural
variables: ethno-linguistic fractionalization,
human capital, vulnerability to exterior
shocks, external aid and specific political
factors (political instability, quality
of governance, degree of centralization,
social and economic infrastructure).
|
N/A
|
N/A
Africa
|
1960-2000
|
Web interface in French.
|
|
The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI)
Human Rights dataset
David L. Cingranelli, David L.
Richards
|
Standards-based quantitative information
on government respect for 13 internationally
recognized human rights.
|
Country analyses from U.S. State
Department and country reports from Amnesty
International.
|
162
Worldwide
|
1981-2003
Annually
|
The dataset contains measures
of government human rights practices,
not human rights policies or conditions.
Registration required to access data.
|
|
Civil Society
Index
CIVICUS
|
Assesses the state of civil societies
around the world with a view to creating
a knowledge base and an impetus for civil
society strengthening initiatives. Index
based on 74 different indicators, which
are grouped into 25 sub-dimensions and
4 overall dimensions.
|
Country reports
|
61
Worldwide
|
2003-2005
Annual
|
Final report expected in late
2005.
|
Commitment to Development Index
Center for Global Development |
Ranks 21 of the world's richest countries based on their dedication to policies that benefit the 5 billion people living in poorer nations worldwide. Measures the impact of donor policies on developing countries. |
Data from UN, World Bank, OECD, academic sources and NGOs. |
21
OECD member countries |
1995-2002
Annual |
OECD member countries except Luxmbourg |
|
Community Information,
Empowerment and Transparency (CIET)
Mexican Academic Institute, a
Non-governmental Organization
|
How resources are used for social
objectives: "Social audits"
of accountability in Police, Customs,
Primary Education, Health Service and
Justice Services.
|
Surveys (household questionnaires),
reviews of institutional data, key informant
interviews, focus group discussion, geographic
information systems (GIS) and low-cost
environmental measurement.
|
30+
Baltic States, Bolivia, Bosnia,
Bangladesh, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan,
South Africa (Gauteng), South Africa (Wild
Coast), Tanzania, Uganda, Mexico)
|
1995-present
Irregular intervals
|
|
|
Comparative Dataset on Political Institutions
SNS—Center
for Business and Policy Studies, Sweden
Torsten Persson,
Guido Tabellini
|
Democratic governance. Uses 38 institutional variables.
|
Data drawn from Freedom House,
Polity, Seddon et al etc.
|
60-85
Worldwide
|
1960-1999
|
Database not yet published.
|
|
Compendium of Sustainable
Development Indicator Indices
International
Institute for Sustainable Development
(IISD)
|
Progress towards sustainable development.
|
Data from experts (indicator practitioners)
|
N/A
Worldwide
|
1995-present
Irregular intervals
|
An extensive revision of the original
compendium was carried out in 2002. Indicator
practitioners submit and update their
entries as necessary through a convenient
web interface.
|
|
Contract
Intensive Money (CIM)
Christopher Clague,
Philip Keefer,
Stephen Knack,
Mancur Olson
|
Contract enforcement and/ or rule
of law.
|
Data from international organizations
such as World Bank, FAO, IMF, UNDP.
|
160
Worldwide
|
1948-2000
|
Data is for all the years that
the World Bank/ IMF/ UN/ OECD/ Commission
of the European Communities report money
supply and currency held outside banks.
|
|
Corruption
Perception Index (CPI)
Transparency International
|
Degree to which corruption is
perceived to exist among public officials
and politicians.
|
18 surveys of business people
and assessments by country analysts from
12 independent institutions.
|
146
Worldwide
|
1995-2004
Annual
|
Number of countries varies by
year.
|
|
Countries
at the Crossroads
Freedom House
|
Assesses government performance
in the area of civil liberties, rules
of law, anticorruption, and accountability
and public voice.
|
Surveys and data from the CIA
World Fact book, World Bank Development
Indicator database, Internet World stats.etc.
|
30
Worldwide
|
2002-2003
|
First Countries at the Crossroads
published in 2004.
|
|
Country Assessment
in Accountability and Transparency (CONTACT)
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
|
Governance. It is a set of generic
and comprehensive guidelines to assist
governments in conducting self-assessments
of their financial management and anti-corruption
systems.
|
Survey data.
|
N/A
Worldwide
|
2001
One time
|
|
|
Country Forecasts
Economist
Intelligence Unit
|
Assess the attractiveness of national
business environments.
|
Economic variables and country
expert assessments.
|
60
Worldwide
|
1997-present
Irregular intervals
|
Provides five-year macroeconomic
projections. 27 OECD plus major emerging
markets.
|
|
Country Report
Economist
Intelligence Unit
|
Assess the attractiveness of national
business environments.
|
Economic variables and country
expert assessments.
|
200
Worldwide
|
1997-present
Annual
|
Monthly updating for 117 countries,
quarterly and annual statistics, 18 to
24 month forecasts.
|
|
Country Risk Review
Standard and Poor/ Wefa/ DRI/
McGraw-Hill
|
Risk to the profitability of investments.
Based on 51 risk attributes for each country.
|
Country risk assessments by country
analysts and regional committees.
|
117
Worldwide
|
1996-present
Quarterly
|
|
|
Country Risk Services
Economist
Intelligence Unit
|
Political risk assessment (assessment
of the pervasiveness of corruption among
politicians and civil servants). Uses
up to 180 indicators.
|
Economic variables and country
expert assessments.
|
115
Worldwide
|
1997-present
Irregular intervals
|
Assesses and provides ratings
for the next two years in emerging markets.
|
|
Cross-National
Indicators of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990
Kenneth A. Bollen (email)
|
Cross-national measures of political
democracy. Uses over 800 variables.
|
Survey data from books, articles,
serials and machine-readable data files
as well as from interviews and self-administered
questionnaires.
|
Most of the world's independent
countries.
|
1950-1990
One time
|
Data access for Inter-University Consortium for Political
and Social Research users only.
192 independent countries in the
world.
|
|
Cross-National Time
Series (CNTS) Data Archive
State University of New York (Binghamton) Center for
Comparative Political Research
Arthur Banks
|
Statistical information and facts
on countries (international and national
country data facts). Based on 22 variables.
|
Data from multiple sources.
|
N/A
Worldwide
|
1815-present
Annual
|
Also known as the Cross-Polity
Survey.
|
|
|
|
Dataset/
Institution(s)/
Developer(s)*
|
Main Content and Concept Measured/
Number of Indicators*
|
Data Source*
|
Number and Names of Countries
or Areas Covered*
|
Period Covered/
Periodicity*
|
Comments*
|
|
Data on Campaign Finance
Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (email)
|
Link between political finance
and political corruption.
|
Data from Freedom House
|
114-143
Worldwide
|
2001
|
"Financing Politics: A Global
View," Journal of Democracy
Vol. 13, No. 4 (October 2002): 69-86.
|
|
Database on Electoral Institutions
New York University
Matt Golder (email)
|
Describes some of the more important
electoral institutions used in all legislative
and presidential elections during democratic
periods in 199 countries between 1946
(or independence) and 2000.
|
Data from international and national
electoral institutions.
|
199
Worldwide
|
1946 (or independence)-2000
|
The database will be available
shortly. "Democratic
Electoral Systems Around the World 1946-2000."
Forthcoming in Electoral Studies.
|
|
Database
of Electoral Systems
International IDEA
|
Explains the various types of
electoral systems and provides links to
voter turnout and quotas for women.
|
N/A
|
200+
Worldwide
|
2003
|
|
|
Dataset
of Labor Rights Violations
University of
North Carolina
Layna Mosley, Saika Uno
|
Labor's right to organize, bargain
collectively and strike.
|
Data from ICFTU, US State Department
and International Labor Organization.
|
200
Worldwide
|
1981-2000
|
"Dataset of Labor Rights
Violations, 1981-2000," Notre Dame,
In: University of Notre Dame, 2002.
|
|
Dataset of Suffrage
Pamela Paxton (email),
Kenneth A.Bollen (email),
Deborah M. Lee,
Hyojoung Kim (email)
|
Percentage of adult population
with suffrage.
|
N/A
|
196
Worldwide
|
1950-2000
|
"A Half-Century of Suffrage:
New Data and a comparative Analysis,"
Studies in Comparative International
Development Vol. 38, No.1 (2003) 93-122.
|
|
"Democraticness"
Zehra F. Arat (email)
|
Democracy. Uses four overlapping
concepts but measured as mutually exclusive
components: participation, inclusiveness,
competitiveness and civil liberties.
|
Data used for participation and
competitiveness component from several
sources, data for civil liberties component
from Banks 1979, Taylor and Hudson, 1972
and Taylor and Jodice, 1983
|
152
Worldwide
|
1948-1982
Annual
|
Data and methodology published
in Zehra Arat's 1991 book Democracy
and Human Rights in Developing Countries.
Gerardo Munck and Jay Verkuilen,
“Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy,"
Comparative Political Studies,
XXXV (2002), 5-34.
|
|
Democracy and
Development Data Set
Yale University, New York University
Adam Przeworski,
Michael E. Alvarez,
Jose Antonio Cheibub,
Fernando Limongi
|
Impact of democracy on development.
|
Data from IMF, World Bank, Penn
World Tables, Freedom House, The Economist
etc.
|
141
Worldwide
|
1950-1990
|
