Meaning: Formative 7-item index measuring to what extent people are active in all of the associations from type 1 to type 3 (see above). At the country level, the indicator measures the prevalence of ...

Meaning: Formative 3-item index measuring to what extent people are active in recreational, humanitarian and environmental associations. At the country level, the indicator measures the prevalence of ...

Meaning: Formative 3-item index measuring to what extent people are active in the church or religious organizations. At the country level, the indicator measures the prevalence of such activity in a g ...

Meaning: Formative 3-item index measuring to what extent people are active in political parties, labour unions and professional associations. At the country level, the indicator measures the prevalenc ...

Meaning: Conditional index that measures the prevalence of citizen rights as the presence of respect of political participation rights on the condition of the presence of respect of personal autonomy ...

Meaning: Formative multi-item index measuring the extent of people's cognitive mobilization over the domains of informational connectedness, perceived stimulation and emancipative values [(InfCon + Pe ...

Meaning: Factor scale from the World Bank's ``global governance indicators'' measuring the degree of corruption control in a country. Source: Alexander and Welzel (2011); Alexander, Inglehart and Wel ...

Meaning: Culture zone scheme, attributing each country to one of ten distinct culture zones created on the basis of religious traditions, imperial/colonial legacies and ethno-linguistic composition. S ...

Meaning: The indicator measures the prevalence of relatively cool temperatures in each season combined with abundant fresh water resources throughout the year, on a country's historically most populat ...

Meaning: 6-item index measuring the extent to which people's understanding of democracy is enlightened in the sense that they define democracy ``correctly'' by its liberal core and at the same time ex ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring the extent to which people's understanding of democracy is liberal in the sense that they define democracy ``correctly'' by its liberal, including free elections, civil ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring the extent to which people's understanding of democracy is non-liberal in the sense that they define democracy ``incorrectly'' by non-liberal attributes, including reli ...

Meaning: 14-point index measuring the prevalence of democratic rights based on Freedom House's ``civil liberties'' and ``political rights'' ratings. Source: Alexander and Welzel (2011); Alexander, In ...

Meaning: Conditional multi-point index measuring the extent of effective democracy, understood as the presence of democratic rights on the condition that honest governance puts them into real practice ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's emphasis on universal freedoms in the domain of personal autonomy (independence, imagination and non-obedience as desired child qualities). Source: ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's emphasis on universal freedoms in the domain of reproductive choices (acceptance of divorce, abortion, homosexuality). Source: Index invented and d ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's emphasis on universal freedoms in the domain of gender equality (support of women's equal access to education, jobs and power). Source: Index inve ...

Meaning: ``Protective-vs.-Emancipative Values'' - 12-item index measuring a national culture's emphasis on universal freedoms in the domains of (1) reproductive choice (acceptance of divorce, abortion ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's emphasis on universal freedoms in the domain of people's voice (priorities for freedom of speech and people's say in national and local affairs). ...

Meaning: 8-item index measuring the diversity of information sources used by the average individual in a nation. Source: Index invented and documented in Welzel, Freedom Rising (2013: 79), www.cambri ...

Meaning: Formative multi-item index measuring the extent to which the people in a society are mentally and habitually empowered to make their own choices and to pursue them in their actions. The index ...

Meaning: Index measures the extent to which people's enlightened democratic desires exceed exceed the perceived democraticness of their country, assuming that this gap between desired and perceived de ...

Meaning: The indicator measures to what extent a country enacts personal autonomy rights by law and respects them in practice. Source: Welzel's (2013: 254-263) ``personal autonomy rights index'' base ...

Meaning: The indicator measures to what extent a country enacts political participation rights by law and respects them in practice. Source: Welzel's (2013: 254-263) ``political participation rights ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring the extent of people's perceived cognitive stimulation based on whether they perceive their daily tasks as mostly ``routine versus creative'', mostly ``manual versus in ...

Meaning: Regime types measure the 4-fold combination of personal autonomy rights and political participation rights, resulting in four combinations. Source: Welzel, Freedom Rising (2013: 257-258). T ...

(Rule of Law + Control of Corruption) / 2

Meaning: Factor scale from the World Bank's ``global governance indicators'' measuring the degree of law enforcement in a country. Source: Alexander and Welzel (2011); Alexander, Inglehart and Welzel ...

Meaning: Categorical scale zones on the citizen rights index, distinguishing four categories from more completely to less completely autocratic, and then from less completely to more completely democr ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring to what extent three types of peaceful social movement activities (petitions, demonstrations, boycotts) are part of a national culture's action repertoire. Source: Ind ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's distance to ``sacred'' sources of authority in the domain of patrimonial authority (the nation, the state, the parents). Source: Index invented an ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's distance to ``sacred'' sources of authority in the domain of religious authority (faith, commitment, practice). Source: Index invented and documen ...

Meaning: ``Sacred-vs.-Secular Values'' - 12-item index measuring a national culture's secular distance to ``sacred'' sources of authority, including (1) religious authority (faith, commitment, practic ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's distance to ``sacred'' sources of authority in the domain of normative authority (anti-bribery, anti-cheating and anti-evasion norms). Source: Ind ...

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's distance to ``sacred'' sources of authority in the domain of order institutions (army, police, courts). Source: Index invented and documented in W ...

Meaning: 4-fold system typology derived from cross-tabulating democratic rights and honest governance. Source: Alexander and Welzel (2011); Alexander, Inglehart and Welzel (2012). Categorization is ...

Meaning: Multi-item formative index measuring to what extent trust in others is general, assigning increasing weights to trust's generality from close to unspecified to remote others [(IngTru + 2 * Un ...

Meaning: 3-item formative index measuring to what extent people trust others to whom they are acquainted. Source: Delhey, Newton and Welzel (2011), based on the Welzel-trust items in the World Values ...

Meaning: 3-item formative index measuring to what extent people trust others to whom they are not familiar and who are dissimilar on important group-forming criteria, including religion and nationalit ...

Meaning: Dummy coded standard trust question indicating to what extent people believe that they can trust unspecified other people. Source: World Values Surveys, all countries and time points from ro ...

Meaning: 3-item formative index measuring to what extent people trust others or believe them to be fair when these others are neither specified as close or remote or in any other way [(PerFai + StaTru ...