QoG Expert Survey Data

The QoG Institute is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Overall 30 researchers conduct and promote research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions. The main objective of our research is to address the theoretical and empirical problem of how political institutions of high quality can be created and maintained. A second objective is to study the effects of Quality of Government on a number of policy areas, such as health, the environment, social policy, and poverty. The QoG Expert Survey is a unique dataset based on the QoG institution’s own web survey. In the third wave of the study (2020), 996 country experts from 117 countries have participated in the study. The data set contains information about the structure and behaviour of public administrations in a wide range of countries. There are two datasets available for the QoG Expert Survey, one individual dataset and one aggregated dataset. In the individual set each expert answers are presented individually and in the aggregated dataset we have pooled the answers by country. Previous versions of QoG Expert Survey Dataset can be found in the Data Archive of the QoG Institute. A country-level dataset based on QoG Expert Survey Data, where IRT models are used to calculate country scores for each country with at least three respondents have been included.QoG研究所（QoG Institute）是哥德堡大学政治学系下属的独立研究机构。总计30名研究人员开展并推广关于善治与政府质量的成因、影响与本质的研究——即可信、可靠、公正、廉洁且兼具胜任力的政府治理机构。 本研究的核心目标在于解决“如何构建并维系高质量政治制度”这一理论与实证层面的难题；次要目标则是探究政府质量对健康、环境、社会政策及减贫等诸多政策领域的影响。 QoG专家问卷（QoG Expert Survey）是依托QoG研究所自主开发的网络问卷构建的特色数据集。在该研究的第三轮调研（2020年）中，共有来自117个国家的996名国别专家参与本次调研。数据集涵盖了全球多国公共行政部门的结构与运行相关信息。 QoG专家问卷目前提供两类数据集：单份受访者数据集与聚合数据集。单份数据集将每位专家的回答单独呈现，而聚合数据集则按国家对受访者回答进行汇总整合。 QoG专家问卷数据集的过往版本可于QoG研究所数据档案库中获取。 另有一套基于QoG专家问卷数据构建的国别层面数据集被纳入本次发布范围，该数据集采用项目反应理论（IRT, Item Response Theory）模型，为至少包含3名受访者的国家计算对应国别得分。