Variable: Associational Activity

QoG Code: (wel_aa)


Dataset: Data from Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel

Description:

Meaning: Formative 7-item index measuring to what extent people are active in all of the associations from type 1 to type 3 (see above). At the country level, the indicator measures the prevalence of such activity in a given society, using the population average.
Source: World Values Surveys, all countries and time points with available data.
Scaling: Variables are rescaled such that non-membership is coded 0, inactive membership coded 0.5 and active membership 1 for each association. Then the average over the associations is calculated. Country-level scores are the average of each national sample from the WVS.

Type of variable: Continuous


Last updated by source: 2014-03-01


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture


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