DATASET METADATA
Data Source:
Global State of Democracy Indices
The objective of the Global State of Democracy (GSoD) Indices is to provide systematic and nuanced data that captures trends at the global, regional and national levels related to International IDEA??�s comprehensive understanding of democracy. The Indices turn a broad range of empirical indicators from various data sets into measures (attributes, subattributes and subcomponents) of different aspects of democracy. They also provide scores for all independent countries in the world with more than one million inhabitants for the period 1975??�2017. The Indices can assist stakeholders, including policymakers, researchers and civil society actors, in their analyses of trends related to different aspects of democracy, and their identification of priority policy areas.
The GSoD data set includes separate, fine-grained indices and subindices for five attributes of modern democracy: (a) Representative Government, (b) Fundamental Rights, (c) Checks on Government, (d) Impartial Administration and (e) Participatory Engagement.
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Reproduced by permission of International IDEA from Global State of Democracy Indices ??� International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance [2019]
INDICATOR METADATA
Definition: A separate sub-component index comprised of two V-Dem general indicators on religious freedom based on expert surveys and a similarly broad in-house coded variable from CLD. The three indicators were aggregated into the freedom of religion sub-component using BFA.
Date range: 1975-2018
Periodicity: annually
Type of data: Scale
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