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. Year本数据集收录了2008年至2012年西班牙各市政辖区的相关数据，共包含以下变量： 1. 人均投资额（Investment）：数值型变量，代表人均资本投资额。 2. 财政压力（Fiscal pressure）：数值型变量，代表人均直接税与间接税总额。 3. 失业率（Unemployment）：该变量为各市政辖区登记的本地失业统计数据，以潜在劳动年龄人口的失业占比作为衡量标准。 4. 女性议员占比（Gender）：数值型变量，代表市议会中女性议员的占比。 5. 选举投票率（Electoral turnout）：数值型变量，代表该市政辖区最近一次地方选举的选民参与率。 6. 政党执政强度（Political strength）：虚拟变量，若市政政党领袖以绝对多数席位执政（即最高执政强度）则取值为1，否则取值为0（即最高程度的政治碎片化）。 7. 省会属性（Capital）：虚拟变量，若该市政辖区为省级省会城市则取值为1，否则取值为0。 8. 年份（Year）