Political rights and Civil Liberties assessment (Freedom House)

Data

Political Rights and Civil Liberties (Freedom House)

Data on political rights for 196 countries between 1972 and 2016.

The dataset is a tibble containing 8391 observations across 6 variables:

  • country_name: character string indicating the country name.

  • country_code: character string indicating the country code (ISO3).

  • year: integer indicating the year.

  • ID: character string indicating the country code (ISO3 code) and the year.

  • FH_Political_Rights: numeric variable “measured on a one-to-seven scale, with one representing the highest degree of Freedom and seven the lowest.” (source)

  • FH_Civil_Liberties: numeric variable “measured on a one-to-seven scale, with one representing the highest degree of Freedom and seven the lowest.” (source)

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