Access to Information and Openness sub-index

QoG code: aii_aio

Access to Information and Openness. This sub-index from 0 to 100 is composed of:

  1. In law, corruption is criminalized as a specific offense.
  2. In law, there is an independent body/bodies mandated to receive and investigate cases of alleged public sector corruption.
  3. In practice, allegations of corruption against senior level politicians and/or civil servants of any level are investigated by an independent body.
  4. In practice, the body/bodies that investigate/s allegations of public sector corruption is/are effective.
  5. In practice, appointments to the body/bodies that investigate/s allegations of public sector corruption support/s the independence of the body.
  6. In law, the head of state and government can be investigated and prosecuted while in office if evidence suggests they committed a crime.
  7. In practice, heads of state and government are investigated and prosecuted while in office if evidence suggests they committed a crime.
  8. In law, there is a mechanism for citizens to report police misconduct or abuse of force.
  9. In practice, the mechanism for citizens to report police misconduct or abuse of force is effective.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-09-25
Last updated by source
2024-05-28
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 53
Standard time-series 53
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 2013-2023

Country coverage

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  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Benin
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Kenya
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2013 to 2023.