De facto Threshold of Gender Quota

QoG code: qar_thr

The product of the percent of legislative seats to which the quota applies and the legislative threshold stipulated by the quota creates the de facto threshold. Valued between 0-100, as the percent of seats.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-10-02
Last updated by source
2017-08-16
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series 84
Dataset Available for years
Standard time-series 1947-2015

Country coverage

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  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Bangladesh
  • Belgium
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Brazil
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cape Verde
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Congo
  • Congo, Democratic Republic
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Djibouti
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini (former Swaziland)
  • France (1963-)
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guinea
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Korea, North
  • Korea, South
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Mauritania
  • Mexico
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • North Macedonia
  • Pakistan (1971-)
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Rwanda
  • Samoa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Slovenia
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Spain
  • Sudan (2012-)
  • Tanzania
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Zimbabwe

Year coverage

This variable has information from 1947 to 2015.