Dokumentasjonsnotat – Bydeler I

Dokumentasjonsnotat – Bydeler I

Prepared by Norwegian Social Science Data Services Harald Hårfagres gate 29 5007 Bergen Norway Phone: +47 55 58 21 17 Fax: + 47 55 58 96 50 Internet: www.nsd.uib.no Email: [email protected] Published in December 2007. The report and appendices are available for download at http://ess.nsd.uib.no. i Contents Preface............................................................................................................................................................v Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................1 1. Background and objectives............................................................................................................1 2. Availability of contextual data.......................................................................................................2 3. Coverage of contextual data..........................................................................................................4 4. Quality and comparability..............................................................................................................5 5. Documentation ...............................................................................................................................9 6. Room for improvements .............................................................................................................10 7. Outline of the report ....................................................................................................................12 Part 1: Comparability and quality of contextual data ................................................... 15 Chapter 1: Regional-level data..................................................................................................................16 Chapter 2: GDP statistics..........................................................................................................................27 Chapter 3: Unemployment statistics........................................................................................................42 Chapter 4: Education statistics.................................................................................................................59 Chapter 5: Political indicators...................................................................................................................65 Part 2: Data sources......................................................................................................... 100 List of data sources ..................................................................................................................................104 1. ACLP Political and Economic Database..........................................................................................106 2. Centripetal Democratic Governance ................................................................................................110 3. CIRI Human Rights Project...............................................................................................................113 4. CivicActive............................................................................................................................................116 5. Comparative Parties Dataset ..............................................................................................................120 6. Comparative Political Datasets ..........................................................................................................123 7. Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset.....................................................................................132 8. Comparative Welfare States Dataset.................................................................................................135 9. Constituency-Level Elections Dataset ..............................................................................................138 10. Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive.....................................................................................141 11. Database of Political Institutions.....................................................................................................144 12. Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World .......................................................................147 13. Election Resources on the Internet.................................................................................................150 ii 14. Environmental Performance Measurement Project .....................................................................153 15. Eurostat...............................................................................................................................................158 16. Fractionalisation Data .......................................................................................................................165 17. Freedom House..................................................................................................................................168 18. Groningen Growth and Development Centre..............................................................................175 19. International Labour Organisation..................................................................................................179 20. International Monetary Fund...........................................................................................................185 21. Inter-Parliamentary Union................................................................................................................190 22. Judicial Checks and Balances ...........................................................................................................192 23. Lijphart Elections Archive................................................................................................................195 24. Migration DRC...................................................................................................................................198 25. Minorities at Risk Project..................................................................................................................201 26. OECD .................................................................................................................................................206 27. Party Policy in Modern Democracies .............................................................................................218 28. Penn World Table..............................................................................................................................221 29. Political Constraint Index Dataset...................................................................................................225 30. Political Terror Scale .........................................................................................................................228 31. Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe .................................................................232 32. Polity Project ......................................................................................................................................235 33. Polyarchy and Contestation Scales ..................................................................................................239 34. Polyarchy Dataset (Vanhanen).........................................................................................................242 35. Psephos (Adam Carr’s Election Archive).......................................................................................246 36. Quality of Government (La Porta et al.) ........................................................................................249 37. Quality of Government Datasets (QoG Institute) .......................................................................252 38. Reporters sans frontières ..................................................................................................................256 39. Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data..................................................................................259 40. Transparency International...............................................................................................................262 41. UNESCO............................................................................................................................................267 42. UNICEF..............................................................................................................................................274 43. Union Centralisation Among Advanced Industrial Societies......................................................280 44. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ...................................................................283 45. United Nations Statistical Division .................................................................................................288 46. World Bank.........................................................................................................................................293 47. World Christian Database.................................................................................................................298 iii 48. World Health Organisation ..............................................................................................................302 49. World Income Inequality Database ................................................................................................308

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