Luciano Cohan

This dataset includes yearly information of the Freedom Index for multiple countries, published by Cato Institute. The Freedom Index measures Economic Freedom, Political Freedom, and Legal Freedom. Scores range between 0 and 100 with higher values indicating more freedom. Countries on the Freedom Index are divided into four categories based on their overall score: those above a seventy-five-point score (Free), those with a score between fifty and 74.9 (Mostly Free), those with a score between twenty-five and 49.9 (Mostly Unfree), and those with score from zero to 24.9 (Unfree).

Miscellaneous - Global - Cato Institute - Freedom Index

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C The Cato Institute conducts research and analysis on public policy issues from a libertarian perspective. It aims to promote individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace through publications, events, and policy recommendations.

Cato Institute

Alphacast

This dataset includes yearly information of the homicide rates for multiple countries, published by Our World In Data (OWID).

Miscellaneous - Global - OWID- Homicide Rate

Our World in Data (OWID) is a research organization that provides access to data and research on global development and long-term change. The organization's mission is to make data on global development easily accessible and to provide the evidence that is needed to understand and address the world's most pressing problems.

Our World In Data (OWID)

The CPI scores countries/territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be by experts and business executives. It is a composite index, a combination of 13 surveys and assessments of corruption, collected by a variety of reputable institutions. The CPI is the most widely used indicator of corruption worldwide. A country/territory’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0-100, where 0 means that a country is perceived as highly corrupt and a 100 means that a country is perceived as very clean.

Miscellaneous - Global - Transparency International - Corruption Perceptions Index

Transparency International (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit and non-governmental purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil societal anti-corruption measures and to prevent criminal activities arising from corruption.

Transparency International

A trademark is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises. Trademarks are protected by intellectual property rights.

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Total Trademarks by class

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property policy, services, information and cooperation. It is a self-funding agency of the United Nations, with 193 member states.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 

This dataset includes monthly information about the records of the votes cast in the United Nations General Assembly, which is the primary deliberative body of the UN. The data is published in Harvard Dataverse. This dataset includes the short description, the importance of the vote by US State Department and the searches in descriptions.
To access additional information and details regarding the variables, please refer to: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ/DYNZPA&version=29.0

Miscellaneous - Global - Harvard Dataverse - United Nations Voting Description

The Harvard University offers Harvard Dataverse, a repository for research data. The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. 

Harvard Dataverse

This dataset includes monthly information about the records of the votes cast in the United Nations General Assembly, which is the primary deliberative body of the UN. The data is published in Harvard Dataverse. This dataset includes the vote choice, roll-cad vote id, UN session and UN resolution number.
To access additional information and details regarding the variables, please refer to: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ/DYNZPA&version=29.0

Miscellaneous - Global - Harvard Dataverse - United Nations Voting

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by law to applicants for inventions that are new, non-obvious and commercially applicable. It is valid for a limited period of time (generally 20 years), during which patent holders can commercially exploit their inventions on an exclusive basis. In return, applicants are obliged to disclose their inventions to the public in a manner that enables others, skilled in the art, to replicate the invention. The patent system is designed to encourage innovation by providing innovators with time-limited exclusive legal rights, thus enabling innovators to reap the benefits of their innovative activity.

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Patent by techonology

This dataset includes yearly information of the local government index published by World Bank, for multiple countries. The local government index indicates whether the local government is elected and whether it is empowered in relation to the central government, while another indicator assesses the freedom and fairness of subnational elections. Scaled to range from 0 (lowest score) to 1 (highest score).

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Local Democracy Indicator

The World Bank is a global development organization that provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries for the pursuit of economic development and poverty reduction. It is one of the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group, along with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

World Bank (WB)

This dataset includes annual information on military spending for all countries in the world. The data are from the WB (World Bank).

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Military Expenditure

Country Policy and Institutional Assessments (CPIA) are carried out annually by the World Bank to measure and rank the ability of countries to make effective use of aid. CPIA ratings are used by the Bank to calculate country performance ratings, and play an important role in determining the Bank's allocation of aid. Countries are rated on a scale of 1 (low) to 6 (high).

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - CPIA Ranking

This dataset includes yearly information of patents applications, grants and in force published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by law to applicants for inventions that are new, non-obvious and commercially applicable. It is valid for a limited period of time (generally 20 years), during which patent holders can commercially exploit their inventions on an exclusive basis. In return, applicants are obliged to disclose their inventions to the public in a manner that enables others, skilled in the art, to replicate the invention. The patent system is designed to encourage innovation by providing innovators with time-limited exclusive legal rights, thus enabling innovators to reap the benefits of their innovative activity.

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Total Patent

This dataset includes yearly information of the Social Unrest Index for multiple countries published in "Measuring Social Unrest Using Media Reports" by Philip Barret, Maximiliano Appendino, Kate Nguyen, and Jorge de Leon Miranda. The Social Unrest Index measures the risk of social conflicts in countries and is used to assess the level of vulnerability of a society to instability. It takes into account a range of factors, including economic inequality, poverty, social exclusion, and lack of effective governance. To access additional information and details regarding the methodology about the index, [read here](https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2020/07/17/Measuring-Social-Unrest-Using-Media-Reports-49573).

Miscellaneous - Global - Social Unrest Index

Global Economic Datasets

This dataset includes yearly information of class count in total trademarks published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A trademark is a sign capable of distinguishing the goods or services of one enterprise from those of other enterprises. Trademarks are protected by intellectual property rights.

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Class count in total trademarks

This dataset includes annual information about intentional homicides per 100,000 people disaggregated by sex. Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Homicide Rate

This dataset includes annual mobile cellular telephone subscriptions per 100 people for all countries, as reported by the World Bank. The indicator is segmented into the number of postpaid subscriptions and the count of active prepaid accounts (i.e., those utilized in the last three months). It applies to all mobile cellular subscriptions providing voice communications and excludes subscriptions via data cards or USB modems, subscriptions to public mobile data services, private trunked mobile radio, telepoint, radio paging, and telemetry services. These subscriptions correspond to a public mobile telephone service that provides access to the PSTN using cellular technology.

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Mobile Cellular Subscriptions

This dataset icludes yearly information of the Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions published by Center for Systemic Peace (CSP), for multiple countries. These are annual, cross-national, time-series and polity-case formats coding democratic and autocratic "patterns of authority" and regime changes in all independent countries with total population greater than 500,000 in 2018 (167 countries in 2018).
To access additional information and details regarding the variables and methodology, please refer to: https://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/p5manualv2018.pdf

Miscellaneous - Global - Center for Systemic Peace - Political Regime Characteristics & Transitions

The Center for Systemic Peace (CSP) was founded in 1997. It is engaged in innovative research on the problem of political violence within the structural context of the dynamic global system, that is, global systems analysis. The Center supports scientific research and quantitative analysis in many issue areas related to the fundamental problems of violence in both human relations and societal-systemic development processes.

Center for Systemic Peace (CSP) 

This dataset includes yearly information of the economic freedom index published by Fraser Institute, for multiple countries. The index measures the degree towhich the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom, in five major areas: [1] Size of Government; [2] Legal System and Security of Property Rights; [3] Sound Money; [4] Freedom to Trade Internationally; [5] Regulation. Comprehensive data are available only with a two-year lag, so the index itself has a two-year lag. Within the five major areas, there are 26 components in the index. Many of those components are themselves made up of several sub-components. In total, the index comprises 44 distinct variables.

To inquire further about the methodology of the index, see [here](https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/approach) and [here](https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/uploaded/2022/economic-freedom-of-the-world-2022-appendix.pdf)

Miscellaneous - Global - Fraser Institute - Economic Freedom Index

The Fraser Institute is an independent non-partisan research and educational organization based in Canada. 

Fraser Institute

The dataset captures the extent to which people are free from government torture, political killings, and forced labor; they have property rights; and enjoy the freedoms of movement, religion, expression, and association. The variable ranges from 0 to 1 (most rights).

Miscellaneous - Global - Our World In Data (OWID) - Human Rights Index

The International Property Rights Index (IPRI) scores the underlining institutions of a strong property rights regime: the legal and political environment, physical property rights, and intellectual property rights. It is the world’s only index entirely dedicated to the measurement of intellectual and physical property rights. Covering 129 countries the 2022 IPRI reports on the property rights systems affecting 98 percent of world Gross Domestic Product and 94 percent of world population.

Miscellaneous - Global - Property Rights Alliance - Property Rights Index

The International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is the flagship publication of Property Rights Alliance. The IPRI scores the underlining institutions of a strong property rights regime: the legal and political environment, physical property rights, and intellectual property rights. It is the world’s only index entirely dedicated to the measurement of intellectual and physical property rights. Covering 129 countries the 2022 IPRI reports on the property rights systems affecting 98 percent of world Gross Domestic Product and 94 percent of world population.

A tool for policymakers, business communities, and civic activists, the IPRI highlights the essential role property rights play in creating a prosperous economy and just society. In addition, the 2022 Index examines the robust relationship between property rights and other economic and social indicators of well-being including – gender equality, illicit trade, innovation, competition, research and development, human development, fighting corruption, and measures of internet connectedness.


Property Rights Alliance

Martina Mas

This dataset icludes the equal information contained in [dataset 39410](https://www.alphacast.io/datasets/miscellaneous-global-center-for-systemic-peace-political-regime-characteristics-transitions-39410) but the original variables where replaced with the description.
To access additional information and details regarding the variables and methodology, please refer to: https://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/p5manualv2018.pdf

Miscellaneous - Global - Center for Systemic Peace - Polity Regime Variables

This dataset includes yearly Democracy Index for multiple countries, which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwidein 165 independent states and two territories. This covers almost the entire population of the world
and the vast majority of the world’s states. The index is basedon five categories: electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties. Based on its scores on a range of indicators within these categories,each country is then classified as one of four types of regime: “full democracy”, “flawed democracy”,
“hybrid regime” or “authoritarian regime".  It ranges from 0 to 10 (strongest preference for democracy).

To access additional information and details regarding the methodology, please refer to the Appendix: [Economist Intelligence Unit](https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2022/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid-search&utm_campaign=democracy-index-2022&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2eilBhCCARIsAG0Pf8uI7ZDluI4JwWADWrou7uEQkEM9JuHGdz3Mys919DgQp-VGJfUrjkIaApvLEALw_wcB)

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Miscellaneous - Global - Cato Institute - Freedom Index
published in
Alphacast /
Cato Institute

Miscellaneous - Global - OWID- Homicide Rate
published in
Alphacast /
Our World In Data (OWID)

Miscellaneous - Global - Transparency International - Corruption Perceptions Index
published in
Alphacast /
Transparency International

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Total Trademarks by class
published in
Alphacast /
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - Harvard Dataverse - United Nations Voting Description
published in
Alphacast /
Harvard Dataverse

Miscellaneous - Global - Harvard Dataverse - United Nations Voting
published in
Alphacast /
Harvard Dataverse

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Patent by techonology
published in
Alphacast /
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Local Democracy Indicator
published in
Alphacast /
World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Military Expenditure
published in
Alphacast /
World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - CPIA Ranking
published in
Alphacast /
World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Total Patent
published in
Alphacast /
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - Social Unrest Index
published in
Alphacast /
Global Economic Datasets

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Class count in total trademarks
published in
Alphacast /
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Homicide Rate
published in
Alphacast /
World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Mobile Cellular Subscriptions
published in
Alphacast /
World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - Center for Systemic Peace - Political Regime Characteristics & Transitions
published in
Alphacast /
Center for Systemic Peace (CSP)

Miscellaneous - Global - Fraser Institute - Economic Freedom Index
published in
Alphacast /
Fraser Institute

Miscellaneous - Global - Our World In Data (OWID) - Human Rights Index
published in
Alphacast /
Our World In Data (OWID)

Miscellaneous - Global - Property Rights Alliance - Property Rights Index
published in
Alphacast /
Property Rights Alliance

Miscellaneous - Global - Center for Systemic Peace - Polity Regime Variables
published in
Alphacast /
Center for Systemic Peace (CSP)

Miscellaneous - Global - OWID - Democracy Index
published in
Alphacast /
Our World In Data (OWID)

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Frequency

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Region

Timeframe

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Miscellaneous - Global - Cato Institute - Freedom Index published in Alphacast / Cato Institute

Miscellaneous - Global - OWID- Homicide Rate published in Alphacast / Our World In Data (OWID)

Miscellaneous - Global - Transparency International - Corruption Perceptions Index published in Alphacast / Transparency International

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Total Trademarks by class published in Alphacast / The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - Harvard Dataverse - United Nations Voting Description published in Alphacast / Harvard Dataverse

Miscellaneous - Global - Harvard Dataverse - United Nations Voting published in Alphacast / Harvard Dataverse

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Patent by techonology published in Alphacast / The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Local Democracy Indicator published in Alphacast / World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Military Expenditure published in Alphacast / World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - CPIA Ranking published in Alphacast / World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Total Patent published in Alphacast / The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - Social Unrest Index published in Alphacast / Global Economic Datasets

Miscellaneous - Global - WIPO - Class count in total trademarks published in Alphacast / The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Homicide Rate published in Alphacast / World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - World Bank - Mobile Cellular Subscriptions published in Alphacast / World Bank (WB)

Miscellaneous - Global - Center for Systemic Peace - Political Regime Characteristics & Transitions published in Alphacast / Center for Systemic Peace (CSP)

Miscellaneous - Global - Fraser Institute - Economic Freedom Index published in Alphacast / Fraser Institute

Miscellaneous - Global - Our World In Data (OWID) - Human Rights Index published in Alphacast / Our World In Data (OWID)

Miscellaneous - Global - Property Rights Alliance - Property Rights Index published in Alphacast / Property Rights Alliance

Miscellaneous - Global - Center for Systemic Peace - Polity Regime Variables published in Alphacast / Center for Systemic Peace (CSP)

Miscellaneous - Global - OWID - Democracy Index published in Alphacast / Our World In Data (OWID)