Disclaimer

This dataset is NOT a reflection of my personal views.

Background Context

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is the most widely used global corruption ranking in the world. It measures how corrupt each country’s public sector is perceived to be, according to experts and businesspeople (source).

Each country’s score is a combination of at least 3 data sources drawn from 13 different corruption surveys and assessments. These data sources are collected by a variety of reputable institutions, including the World Bank and the World Economic Forum (source).

About this Dataset

This dataset contains evaluation of corruption from two major agencies, Transparency International and Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), a World Bank project. The data from Transparency International is split into two files because they don't have exactly the same columns, although most columns are the same. It makes more sense to have them seperately, and you can merge them if you would like to.

• transparency_active.csv contains Transparency International data from 2012-2021
• transparency_legacy.csv contains Transparency International data from 1995-2011
• wgidataset.csv contains WGI data from 1996-2021
• wgidataset_readme.pdf is a documentation that explains what the indicators mean in wgidataset.csv