Data

I am responsible for developing the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute datasets and overseeing the work of the QoG data, an open data platform on corruption and other societal indicators.

Within QoG I am leading Lo-QoG (the Local Quality of Government dataset: A hub for local societal indicators across Europe) a project, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond 2023-2027. This project aims to collect, harmonize and publicize statistics on municipal-like units across Europe. The ambition is to provide researchers and the public with relevant data on a very fine-grained level that is free and accessible.

I lead one of the modules in Demscore, an infrastructure providing free data from several of the world’s largest datasets on Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social Policy, Conflict, and Representation.

Together with colleagues in the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project, I launched the ‘Women’s Political Empowerment Index’, a set of data that is free for the public to download and use (see also Sundström et al. 2017). 

I am also working with providing open and free data on age group representation in politics (with Daniel Stockemer). The Worldwide Age Representation in Parliaments (WARP) dataset (see www.warpdataset.com), is an ongoing effort that provides information about the numerical presence of age groups in lower house parliaments, spanning across the globe and over time. To date, it contains over 800 elections in 150 countries.