Variable	Measurement	Era	Code	N	Source
Voice and accountability	Includes a number of indicators measuring various aspects of political process, civil liberties and political rights. Indicators measure the extent to which citizens of a country are able to participate in the selection of governments and the independence of the media. Expressed in z-scores	1998	DemocracyIndex1_1998	90	Kaufmann 2007 World Bank:table C1
		2001	DemocracyIndex1_2001	90
		2002	DemocracyIndex1_2002	174
		2006	DemocracyIndex1_2006	175
		2012	DemocracyIndex1_2012
Suppression of political rights	Expert ratings on 9 item index of political rights: 1. State leader elected through free and fair elections, 2. Legislative representatives elected through free and fair elections, 3. Fair electoral laws, equal campaigning opportunities, fair polling and honest tabulation of ballots, 4. Freely elected representatives have real power, 5. Right to organize in political parties, system open to rise and fall of competing groups, 6. Realistic possibility for opposition, de facto opposition power, 7. National independence, 8. Influence of minority groups, 9. Political power decentralized. Index range 1-7, high scores meaning more supperssion and less democracy	1972-79	PoliticalRights_1970s	89	Freedom House 2005
		1980-89	PoliticalRights_1980s	89
		1990-99	PoliticalRights_1990s	105
		2000-04	PotiticalRights_2000s	105
		1999	PoliticalRights_1999	104
		2000	PoliticalRights_2000	104
		2001	PoliticalRights_2001	104
		2002	PoliticalRights_2002	104
		2003	PoliticalRights_2003	104
		2004	PoliticalRights_2004	140
Suppression of civil liberties	Expert ratings on 11 item index of civil liberties: 1. Free and independent media, 2. Open public discussion, free private discussion, 3. Freedom of assembly and demonstration, 4. Freedom of political organization, 5. Equal law, nondiscriminatory judiciary, 6. Protection from political terror, 7. Free trade unions, effective collective bargening, 8. Free professional and other private organizations, 9. Free business, 10. Free religion, 11. Personal freedoms such as: gender equality, property rights, freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of marriage and size of family. Index range 1-7, high scores meaning more suppression and less democracy	1972-79	CivilLiberties_1970s	89	Freedom House 2005
		1980-89	CivilLiberties_1980s	89
		1990_99	CivilLiberties_1990s	105
		2000-04	CivilLiberties_2000s	105
		1999	CivilLiberties_1999	104
		2000	CivilLiberties_2000	104
		2001	CivilLiberties_2001	104
		2002	CivilLiberties_2002	104
		2003	CivilLiberties_2003	104
		2004	CivilLiberties_2004	104
		2013	CivilLiberties_2013	176
Suppression of political rights and civil liberties	Political rights + civil liberties Index range 2-14, high scores meaning more suppression and less democracy	1972-79	DemocracyIndex2_1970s	89	Summed PoliticalRights and CivilLiberties
		1980-89	DemocracyIndex2_1980s	89
		1990-99	DemocracyIndex2_1990s	105
		2000-04	DemocracyIndex2_2000s	105
		1999	DemocracyIndex2_1995	104
		2000	DemocracyIndex2_2000	104
		2001	DemocracyIndex2_2001	104
		2002	DemocracyIndex2_2002	104
		2003	DemocracyIndex2_2003	104
		2004	DemocracyIndex2_2004	104
Estes’ Political Participation subindex	1. Years since independence (+), 2. Years since most recent constitution (+), 3. Presence and functioning of a parliamentary system (+), 4. Presence and functioning of a party system (+), 5. Influence of military (-), 6. Number of popular elections held (+) (Part of the Index of Social Progress)	1979-80	DemocracyIndex3_1980	47	Estes 1984: table 5-1
VanHanen’s Index of Democracy (ID)	A: Competition, % votes won by largest party minus 100 B: Participation, % voters of total population (not franchised population) Computation: A x B / 100	1968	DemocracyIndex4_1968	176	Vanhanen 1990: table 2.2
		1978	DemocracyIndex4_1978	176
		1988	DemocracyIndex4_1988	176
		1998	DemocracyIndex4_1998	176
		2000	Democracyindex4_2000	176
Economist Intelligence Democracy Index	1. Electoral process and pluralism, 2. Functioning of government, 3. Political participation, 4. Political culture, 5. Civil liberties Expressed in score on range 0-10	2006	DemocracyIndex5_2006	137	Economist
Free assembly		2008	FreeAssembly_2008	112	Human Freedom Index
		2010	FreeAssembly_2010	117
		2011	FreeAssembly_2011	130
		2012	FreeAssembly_2012	130
		2013	FreeAssembly_2013	132
		2014	FreeAssembly_2014	134

Related topics: Corruption, Free press, Governance, Human rights
Related themes: Freedom, Government, Institutional quality, Politics

The dataset States of Nations is about characteristics of countries in periods (macro variables). It is part of the World Database of Happiness. Developed for identification of societal conditions for happiness, this dataset can also be used for other purposes.