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|GCS|World Economic<br>Forum|Global<br>Compettveness<br>Report Executve<br>Opinion Survey|121 countries covering<br>a global sample.|Annual. Use in<br>WGI since 1996.|Survey/Firm|Survey of business executves. Documentaton on the survey<br>methodology is availablehere.Country-level data is available<br>by requesthere.|
|GII|African Insttute<br>for Development<br>Policy|Africa Integrity<br>Indicators|54 African economies.|Annual. Used in<br>WGI since 2006.|Expert/NGO|Expert assessment scored by recruited country experts,<br>following a highly detailed questonnaire pairing “in law” and<br>“in practce questons” together with a writen justfcaton for<br>each score. Scores are subject to blind peer review before<br>publicaton. A detailed descripton of the methodology is<br>availablehere. Data is publicly available. Note: this data<br>source uses a methodology originally developed by Global<br>Integrity in the mid-2006 and published as the Global Integrity<br>Index between 2006 and 2012. We use the Global Integrity<br>data in the WGI for this period, and the Africa Integrity<br>Indicators beginningin 2013.|
|GWP|Gallup<br>Organizaton|Gallup World<br>Poll|137 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.|Annual. Used in<br>WGI since 2006.|Survey/HH|Household survey. A detailed descripton of the GWP survey<br>methodology and the full codebook is availablehere.Data are<br>commercially available. Averages of questons as assigned to<br>six WGI indicators arepubliclyavailable on the WGI website.|
|HER|Heritage<br>Foundaton|Index of<br>Economic<br>Freedom|177 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.|Annual. Used in<br>WGI since 1996.|Expert/NGO|Components of the index used in the WGI are an expert<br>assessment scored by Heritage Foundaton staf following a<br>structured methodology subject to centralized review.<br>Descripton of the methodology is available in the report<br>availablehere.|
|HRM|Human Rights<br>Measurement<br>Initatve|Rights Tracker|30 economies.|Annual. Used in<br>WGI since 2017.|Expert/NGO|Expert assessment of multple dimensions of human rights<br>scored by local experts recruited by HRMI. Selected<br>components are used in the WGI. Data are publicly available<br>here.Complete descripton of methodologyis availablehere.|
|HUM|University of<br>North Carolina-<br>Asheville;<br>Binghamton<br>University|Politcal Terror<br>Scale; CIRI<br>Human Rights<br>Data|Politcal Terror Scale:<br>197 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.<br>CIRI Human Rights<br>Data: 194 economies<br>covering a global<br>sample.|Annual. Used in<br>WGI since 1996.<br>CIRI Human<br>Rights Data was<br>discontnued in<br>2014 and last<br>used in WGI in<br>2013.|Expert/NGO|<br>Both data sources are expert assessments scored by coding<br>informaton inUS Department of State Country Reports on<br>Human Rights PractcesandAmnesty Internatonal Annual<br>Reports.Coding is done by researchers afliated with the<br>project. A complete descripton of the methodology is<br>availableherefor the Politcal Terror Scale andhere for the<br>CIRI Human Rights Data. Because both products draw on the<br>same primary sources they are treated as a single source in the<br>WGI.|
|IFD|Internatonal<br>Fund for|Rural Sector<br>Performance<br>Assessment|66 IFAD client countries.|Every three<br>years. Used in<br>WGI since 2004|Expert/GOV|Expert assessment of quality of insttutons and policies<br>relevant for rural development scored by IFAD staf subject to<br>centralized review.Questonnaire andprocess are similar to|

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