Global Corruption Indicators: Expert Assessments, Perception Surveys, and Composite Scores

Frédéric Lesné's work evaluates major types of corruption indicators used for macroeconomic research since the mid-1990s. The study focuses on multi-year indicators with global or regional coverage that provide comparable country scores over time. The dataset is hosted on figshare by Issakha THIAM under a GPL 2.0+ license and was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Compare corruption scores across countries based on expert assessments mentioned in the description.
• Analyze trends in corruption over time using multi-year, comparable indicators described.
• Evaluate the correlation between different indicator types, such as perception surveys and composite scores.
• Study the institutional frameworks affecting economic development through the lens of quantified corruption.

Strengths

• Focuses on multi-year indicators providing comparable scores across countries and time.
• Evaluates multiple established indicator types used in macroeconomic research since the mid-1990s.
• Licensed under GPL 2.0+, permitting open use and modification.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Study and evaluation of existing corruption indicators, including expert assessments, perception and experience surveys, and composite indices.

Time Range

Covers indicators used since the mid-1990s.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 16:30:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global or regional coverage as indicated by the description.