Variable: Type of Gender Quota

QoG Code: (qar_typ)


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

Description:

Type of gender quota. ‘seats’ denotes a national quota that reserves a certain percentage of seats in the legislature for women. ‘candidate’ denotes a national gender quota that requires all parties to field a certain percentage of female candidates or nominees. ‘both’ denotes hybrid quotas that use a mix of both types.
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


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 86


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This variable has information from the year 1947 to the year 2015