Variable: Data Governance Regulatory Indicator

QoG Code: (gdg_regul)


Dataset: Global Data Governance Mapping

Description:

The regulatory indicator of the Global Data Governance dataset measures whether the government constructs a legal and regulatory regime around various types of data. Specifically, policymakers enact rules regarding the collection, use, and reuse of data for data subjects, data controllers, and/or data users. Regimes related to data may include aws and/or executive orders, directives, decrees, regulations, administrative codes, proclamations, etc., so long as it is mandatory, binding, and enforceable

This variable is compiled from the following indicators: Personal Data Protection Law, Open Data Law for the proactive release of government information, Freedom of Information Act, Right to be protected from Automated Decision-Making, and Right of Data Portability
It is measured on a scale of 0-100.

Type of variable: Discrete

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-10-29
Last updated by source: 2022-07-21


Categories:

Judicial Quality of Government


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Standard cross-section: 68


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This variable has information from the year 2021 to the year 2022