Variable: Effective Gender Quota

QoG Code: (qar_efqu)


Dataset: Quota Adoption and Reform over Time (QAROT), Version 1, 1947-2015

Description:

Dummy variable for effective gender quota is coded 1 if a county has a quota that reaches a 10 percent de facto threshold for either candidate or reserved seat quotas. Further, candidate quotas are only coded as effective if they have strong sanctions for noncompliance and/or have strong placement mandates. Reserved seats are only coded as effective if they have a legal mechanism specified to fill the reserved seats. This variable indicates a minimally functioning quota that can be included in a wide range of models to control for an important structural feature of political competition. Coded only for country-years where a quota was present.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-10-20
Last updated by source: 2017-08-16


Categories:

Gender Equality


Find this variable in:

OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 196
OECD time-series: 40


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