The QoG Survey is a data set on the structure and behavior of public administration, based on a web survey. The dataset covers key dimensions of quality of government, such as politicization, professionalization, openness, and impartiality.
Included in the QoG dataset are three indexes, each based on a group of questions from the survey. When constructing the indexes authors excluded countries with less than three responding experts.
The confidence interval variables give the higher and lower limits of the 95% confidence interval.
| Dataset type: | Cross-section |
| Dataset level: | Country |
(Dahlstrom et al.,
2015)
Closed Public Administration: The index measures to what extent the public administration is more closed or public-like, rather than open or private-like. Higher values indicate a more closed public administration. It is based on three questions from the survey. The index is constructed by first taking the mean for each responding expert of the three questions above. The value for each country is then calculated as the mean of all the experts' means. (If one or more answers are missing, these questions are ignored when calculating the mean value for each expert).
More about this variableClosed Public Administration Confidence Interval (High).
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More about this variableImpartial Public Administration: The index measures to what extent government institutions exercise their power impartially. The impartiality norm is defined as: ``When implementing laws and policies, government officials shall not take into consideration anything about the citizen/case that is not beforehand stipulated in the policy or the law''. The index is constructed by adding each measure weighted by the factor loading obtained from a principle components factor analysis. Missing values on one or more of the questions have been imputed on the individual expert level. After that, aggregation to the country level has been made (mean value of all experts per country).
More about this variableImpartial Public Administration Confidence Interval (High).
More about this variableImpartial Public Administration Confidence Interval (Low).
More about this variableProfessional Public Administration: The index measures to what extent the public administration is professional rather than politicized. Higher values indicate a more professionalized public administration. It is based on four questions from the survey. The index is constructed by first taking the mean for each responding expert of the four questions above. The value for each country is then calculated as the mean of all the experts' means. (If one or more answers are missing, these questions are ignored when calculating the mean value for each expert. The scales of the second and third questions are reversed so that higher values indicate more professionalism).
More about this variableProfessional Public Administration Confidence Interval (High).
More about this variableProfessional Public Administration Confidence Interval (Low).
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