Variable: Practice: citizens can access the financial records of state-owned companies

QoG Code: (aii_q29)


Dataset: Africa Integrity Indicators

Description:

Sub-score (0-100). Question no. 29. In practice, citizens can access the financial records of state-owned companies.

A 100 score is earned where all the following conditions are met:
1) financial records of state-owned companies are available on/offline to journalists, auditors and citizens at least quarterly, and
2) the records can be obtained immediately for free online or on paper in less than two weeks of requested at cost of photocopying.

A 50 score is earned where any of the following conditions apply:
1) financial records of state-owned companies are available less than quarterly, or
2) obtaining the records takes two weeks to a month, or costs are higher than photocopying.
A 0 score is earned where financial records of state-owned companies are rarely available to the public or don't exist.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-12-04
Last updated by source: 2023-07-04


Categories:

Quality of Government


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 54
Standard time-series: 54


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