Methodology:
Countries with fewer than 1 million inhabitants are not
audited.
Each country is rated on a scale of 1 to 7 by Freedom House for
political rights (P) and civil liberties (C). Countries are
assigned to a division (D) within our democracy table thus:
If P and C are both 1 then D=1
If P is 1 and C is 2 then D=2
If P + C is between 3 and 7 then D=3
If P + C is seven or above then D=4
Within each division positions are calculated using an average of
press freedom and corruption scores. World Audit corruption scores
are calculated using the Transparency International Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI). "This is the most comprehensive index of
perceptions of corruption ever published by the anti-corruption
organisation, ranking 159 countries. It is a "poll of polls",
drawing upon numerous distinct surveys of expert and general public
views of the extent of corruption in many countries around the
world".
The World Audit corruption scores (used in the World Democracy
Audit) are taken from the CPI data and calculated using the
following equation where T is the CPI score:
World Audit corruption score = 100 - 10T
The resulting World Audit corruption scores all lie between 0 and
100 (lower being more favourable).
The purpose of the equation is to facilitate comparison between the
CPI score, which lies between 0 and 10 before the use of the
equation (a higher score being more favourable), and the Press
Freedom score, which lies between 0 and 100 (lower being more
favourable).
E.g. Sweden:
Sweden's CPI score = 9.2
... therefore T = 9.2
WA corruption score = 100 - 10T
= 100 - (10 x 9.2)
= 100 - 92
... therefore Sweden's WA corruption score (A) = 8 out of 100
...to obtain a World Democracy Ranking this is added to the Press
Freedom score
Sweden's Press Freedom score (B) = 9 out of 100
(A) + (B) = 17
Average score (A +B)/2 = 9
Comparing the average score with those of all other nations, where
lowest is best, Sweden ranks 4th in the World Democracy Audit
Source:
Transparency International (TI)
Otto-Suhr-Allee 97-99 D-10585 Berlin
Germany
Tel (+49) 30-343820-0
Fax (+49) 30-34703912
