QoG EU Regional Data
Creator/Principal investigator(s):
Nicholas Charron - University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Anna Khomenko - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Description:
The QoG Institute is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Overall 30 researchers conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.
The main objective of our research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. A second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty.
The QoG EU Regional Data is a dataset consisting of approximately 450 variables covering three levels of European regions - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS): NUTS 0 (country), NUTS 1 (major socio-economic regions) and NUTS 2 (basic regions for the application of regional policies). QoG Regional Data has been divided into three datasets and these are available in time-series version (from 1990
Subject area:
government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Political Science, Social Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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Creator/Principal investigator(s):
Nicholas Charron - University of Gothenburg, Quality of Government Institute
Sören Holmberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Bo Rothstein - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Anna Khomenko - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Richard Svensson - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
Stefan Dahlberg - University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science
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SND-ID: EXT 0008
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Description:
The QoG Institute is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Overall 30 researchers conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.
The main objective of our research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. A second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty.
The QoG EU Regional Data is a dataset consisting of approximately 450 variables covering three levels of European regions - Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS): NUTS 0 (country), NUTS 1 (major socio-economic regions) and NUTS 2 (basic regions for the application of regional policies). QoG Regional Data has been divided into three datasets and these are available in time-series version (from 1990
Time period(s) investigated:
2009 — 2010
2013 — 2013
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Geographic description: EU
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Region
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Countries and regions in EU
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European Union
Subject area:
government, political systems and organisations
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Political Science, Social Sciences
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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Dataset EXT 0008-001
EU QoG Index 2010
Description:
When using QoG Basic data, please cite as follows (don´t forget to also cite the original source):
Charron, Nicholas, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Anna Khomenko & Richard Svensson. 2016. The Quality of Government EU Regional Dataset, version Sep16. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, http://www.qog.pol.gu.se
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Numeric
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Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
Time period(s) for data collection: 2009-12-15 — 2010-02-01
Data collector: Elektrolux svenska försäljnings AB
Source of the data: Geographic area
Time period(s) investigated:
2009-12-15 — 2010-02-01
Dataset EXT 0008-002
EU QoG Index 2013
Description:
EU QoG Index (EQI) is a measure of corruption and governance at the regional level in the EU. The index is based on 16 variables from the survey.
When using QoG Basic data, please cite as follows (don´t forget to also cite the original source):
Charron, Nicholas, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Anna Khomenko & Richard Svensson. 2016. The Quality of Government EU Regional Dataset, version Sep16. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, http://www.qog.pol.gu.s
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Data format / data structure:
Numeric
Data collection:
Mode of collection: Self-administered questionnaire
Time period(s) for data collection: 2013 — 2013
Source of the data: Geographic area
Time period(s) investigated:
2013 — 2013