Freedom in the World Sub-Items Texts, 2017-2023

Source: R/freedomhouse-package.R

Provides the text for each sub-item in the country_scores table. For each sub-item the text corresponds to the justification for the assigned score.

country_rating_text

Format

A data frame with 36,093 observations and 10 variables.

Source

Own creation, based on texts scraped from Freedom House.

Variables

  • year: Year of observation (2017-2023).

  • country: Country name.

  • iso2c: ISO 2-character country code. Abkhazia, Crimea, Eastern Donbas, Kosovo, Micronesia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Tibet, Transnistria do not have unambiguous matches and appear as 'NA'.

  • iso3c: ISO 3-character country code. Abkhazia, Crimea, Eastern Donbas, Kosovo, Micronesia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Tibet, Transnistria do not have unambiguous matches and appear as 'NA'.

  • continent: Continent name.

  • item: Item letter (A-G).

  • sub_item: Sub-item letter and number (A1-G4) besides 'Overview', 'Key Developments' 'Rating Change', 'Trend Arrow', and 'Notes'.

  • item_description: Description of the item.

  • sub_item_description: Description of the sub-item.

  • detail: Details and justification for the assigned score in the sub-item.

References

Freedom House. 2023. Freedom in the World 2023: Marking 50 Years in the Struggle for Democracy. Washington, DC: Freedom House. https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2023/marking-50-years. Accessed 2024-09-08.