Impartial Public Administration: The index measures to what extent government institutions exercise their power impartially. The impartiality norm is defined as: ``When implementing laws and policies, government officials shall not take into consideration anything about the citizen/case that is not beforehand stipulated in the policy or the law''.
The index is constructed by adding each measure weighted by the factor loading obtained from a principle components factor analysis. Missing values on one or more of the questions have been imputed on the individual expert level. After that, aggregation to the country level has been made (mean value of all experts per country).
Type of variable: Continuous