Governance Index - WB
Just looked at the World Bank Governance Indicator site. The indicators are hard packed aggregated indices. It is a relative indicator system that uses percentiles - so you know where you fit relative to other countries. I like the way they showed their margin of error on each chart, gives you a range. The indicators are:
- Voice and Accountability
- Political Stability and Absence of Violence
- Government Effectiveness
- Regulatory Quality
- Rule of Law
- Control of Corruption
Each country gets a pdf document with the 6 indicators plotted on a line graph. It took me a while to find the methodology guides which are in the resources tab. There are loads of free data downloads in myriad formats and some explanatory documentation. I also played with the maps a little, well, these are the least impressive aspect of the report. These could be really dynamic and interesting but instead they are not very esthetically pleasing, and are in Flash. Seems like those who take great pains to produce fab indicators fail to put the same sort of attention when it comes to mapping them! But alas I guess i should be happy there is a map!
I would challenge anyone out there who is a cartographer to take the WB excell spreadsheet of data and produce a better set of maps and then sell that idea to the WB. They could really use the help!
via - CBC News
