Variable: Secular Values: Defiance Component

QoG Code: (wel_svde)


Dataset: Data from Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel

Description:

Meaning: 3-item index measuring a national culture's distance to ``sacred'' sources of authority in the domain of patrimonial authority (the nation, the state, the parents).
Source: Index invented and documented in Welzel, Freedom Rising (2013: 63-66), www.cambridge.org/welzel (Online Appendix, p. 12-19), based on data from the World Values Surveys, all countries and time points.
Scaling: Multi-point scale, ranging from a theoretical minimum of 0 when the least secular position is taken on all 3 items, to a maximum of 1.0 when the most secular position is taken on all 3 items. Intermediate positions are given in fractions of 1.0. Country scores are population averages (arithmetic mean) on the 0-1 index.

Type of variable: Continuous


Last updated by source: 2014-03-01


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 104