Professionalism Index

QoG code: qs20_proff_pca

Professionalism Index is constructed from Patronage, Merit and Tenure with the help of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Merit, Patronage and Tenure are load on the same dimension, which predicted scores are used as Professionalism Index.

Type of variable
Continuous
Downloaded by QoG on
2025-10-02
Last updated by source
2021-03-15
Details of this variable in our compilation datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section 79

Country coverage

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  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia (1993-)
  • France (1963-)
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Korea, South
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Mexico
  • Montenegro
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Serbia
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uzbekistan
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Zambia

Year coverage

This variable has information from 2020 to 2020.