480 national parliamentary and presidential elections from 169 countries are evaluated based on surveys of 4,591 election experts. The Electoral Integrity Project's PEI-8.0 release provides a 100-point index and 49 indicators clustered across eleven stages of the electoral cycle. Data is available at country, election, and expert levels for analysis from July 2012 to December 2021.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking national election quality based on the 100-point Perception of Electoral Integrity (PEI) index.
- Analyzing specific electoral cycle stages, such as campaign finance or voter registration, using the 49 clustered indicators.
- Comparing expert consensus versus divergence in election assessments using the expert-level survey responses.
- Modeling temporal trends in electoral integrity across 480 contests over a nine-year period.
Strengths
- Covers 480 elections in 169 countries, providing broad global coverage.
- Based on assessments from 4,591 election experts, offering a multi-expert perspective.
- Structures data at three levels (country, election, expert) for flexible analysis.
- Includes a synthesized 100-point index and 49 specific indicators for detailed evaluation.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown for the downloadable files, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic or expert-selection bias inherent to the survey methodology.
Provenance
- Source
- Electoral Integrity Project, led by Holly Ann Garnett at the Royal Military College of Canada.
- Collection Method
- Rolling electronic survey collecting the views of approximately 40 election experts per contest.
- Time Range
- 1 July 2012 to 31 December 2021
- Geography
- Global, covering 169 countries