Proportion Coded Legislators (upper house)

QoG code: jw_propcoded2

This is the proportion of the total number of legislators (elected and non-elected) that are coded.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-12-19
Last updated by source
2012-03-24
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 50
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1978-2005

Country coverage

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  • Afghanistan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Congo
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Dominican Republic
  • France (1963-)
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Liberia
  • Malta
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Nigeria
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1978 to 2005.