Variable: Information Capacity (year 1800)

QoG Code: (icd_infcapirt1800)


Dataset: Information Capacity Dataset

Description:

The aggregate index score of information capacity for the year of 1800. It is based on a hybrid two-parameter and graded Item Response Model (IRT) that is based on five component indicators - when the country first established a statistical agency, whether the country had in place a civil register and a population register, and the graded indexes of census ability and yearbook ability.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-09-17
Last updated by source: 2019-05-27


Categories:

Quality of Government History


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 48


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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2015