Variable: Trust (Standard)

QoG Code: (wel_trstd)


Dataset: Data from Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel

Description:

Meaning: Dummy coded standard trust question indicating to what extent people believe that they can trust unspecified other people.
Source: World Values Surveys, all countries and time points from rounds 1 to 6.
Scaling: Dummy index standardized into 0 for non-trust and 1.0 for trust in unspecified others. Country-level scores are the average of each national sample, thus transforming the individual-level dummy codes into a continuous 0-to-1.0 scale.

Type of variable: Binary


Last updated by source: 2014-03-01


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 104