Practice: reports before after a national election are publicly available

QoG code: aii_q22

Sub-score (0-100). Question no. 22. In practice, the agency/agencies mandated to organize and monitor national elections make/s timely, publicly available reports before and after a national election.

A 100 score is earned where all the following conditions are met:
1) the agency/agencies publish/es at least one report before the election and one report after the election, and
2) the publications are easily accessible to citizens less than one month after issuance online or at cost of photocopying.

A 50 score is earned where any of the following conditions apply:
1) the agency only publishes one report before or after the election, or
2) the publication is generally accessible to citizens but published more than one month after issued or the cost is higher than photocopying.

A 0 score is earned where no reports about the elections are published or reports are not available to the public.

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.