Data for: Determinants of Local Governments’ Transparency in Times of Crisis: Evidence From Municipality-Level Panel Data

The database is configured with spanish municipal data in the period 2008-2012 with the following variables:

Investment. This is a numerical variable which represents capital investment per capita.

Fiscal pressure. This is a numerical variable which represents the total of direct and indirect taxes per capita.

Unemployment. It is the local unemployment statistics registered in a municipality that is measured by the percentage of the population potentially active.

Gender. It is a numeric variable representing the percentage of women councilors, who belong to the municipal council.

Electoral turnout. This is a numerical variable, which represents the percentage of participation in the last local elections in the municipality.

Political strength. It is a dummy variable given the value of 1 if the municipal party leader is ruling in absolute majority (maximum strength), and 0 otherwise (maximum fragmentation)

Capital. Province capital which assumes the value of 1 if the municipality is a provincial capital and 0 otherwise.

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该数据库配置了2008-2012年间的西班牙地方数据，包含以下变量：

投资。这是一个数值变量，代表人均资本投资。

财政压力。这是一个数值变量，代表人均直接税和间接税的总和。

失业率。这是指在某个市政区域内登记的本地失业统计数据，以潜在活跃人口百分比衡量。

性别。这是一个数值变量，表示女性市议会成员在市政议会中所占的百分比。

选举投票率。这是一个数值变量，代表市政最近一次地方选举中的参与百分比。

政治力量。这是一个虚拟变量，当市政党派领导以绝对多数（最大力量）执政时取值为1，否则为0（最大碎片化）。

省会。省会是省级首府，当市政为省级首府时取值为1，否则为0。

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