Official Statistics and Political Regimes
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Official Statistics and Political Regimes: These data combine open data sources from the World Bank and The Economist. This combination allows us to study official statistics directly at the country level. Democracy and the national statistical system are all-encompassing concepts with many different aspects. Measuring them is a complex and challenging operation. About democracy, the Democracy Index (DI) by the UK group Economist takes into consideration different categories and started recently. In the Word Bank, there are the Statistical Capacity Indicator and Statistical Performance Indicator. The Statistical Capacity Indicator is done only for 146 development countries. The Statistical Performance Indicator (SPI) has been done for all the countries since 2016. Both indexes are made with similar methodology, but they take into account different aspects of the statistical system. SPI tries to estimate the different characteristics of national statistical systems. Also so as to produce indicators related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Open Data Watch produced two indexes: the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) and the Gender Data Compass (GDC). Both indexes are focused on the webpages of the national statistics offices around the world. The first one focuses on open data, and the second one disaggregates data. The SPI included the ODIN data. The GDC just started in 2023. The Democracy Index assessed, from 2006 onwards, the democracy of over 167 countries. This was based on five categories – electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation, and political culture – thanks to experts’ assessments and the public’s opinion from multiple significant surveys. The index’s values range from 0 to 10, and these countries were within one of four types of regimes: ‘Full democracies’, ‘Flawed democracies’, ‘Hybrid regimes’ and ‘Authoritarian regimes’.The SPI by the World Bank assessed the performance of national statistical systems from 2016 to 2022 in over 174 countries. This data came from the most important international organisations, including the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) by Open Data Watch. The SPI is a framework of five pillars (data use, data services, data products, data sources, and data infrastructure) and 22 dimensions. Nevertheless, there are currently 14 dimensions that have been proven by their established methods, whereas the other 8 dimensions have no measurable indicators. I create and use "Official Statistics and Political Regimes" for this article: Di Gennaro, Splendore, Luca. Is there a quantitative relationship between democracy and official statistics? Statistical Journal of the IAOS. 2024;40(3):511-519. doi:10.3233/SJI-240012 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/SJI-240012
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- University of MaltaL-Imsida, Msida