The Quality of Government OECD Dataset, version Jan15

The QoG OECD is a newly available dataset published by the QoG Institute. It covers countries who are members of the OECD. The dataset is further distinguished due to its high data coverage in terms geography and time.Variables are divided into sixteen thematic categories such as Quality of Government, Economy, Media, Environment, Political System etc. You will find more information about this under the section Variable Categories in the Codebook. We hope that this new division will facilitate your search for variables.The QoG OECD dataset is available in both time-series (TS) and cross-section (CS). In our TS dataset, the unit of analysis is country-year (e.g. Sweden-1984, Sweden-1985 and so on). The CS dataset, unlike the TS dataset, does not include multiple years for a particular country and the unit of analysis is therefore countries. In the TS dataset, we have data from 1946 to 2014 and the unit of analysis is country-year (e.g. Sweden-1946, Sweden-1947 and so on). In the CS dataset, we have data from and around 2010. Simply put, we have included data from 2010. If there was no data for that particular year on a variable, we have taken data from the year after and if there was no data for that year, we have taken data from the year before 2010, up to +/- 3 years