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3 - Data Collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2020

Michael Coppedge ,
John Gerring ,
Adam Glynn ,
Carl Henrik Knutsen ,
Staffan I. Lindberg ,
Daniel Pemstein ,
Brigitte Seim ,
Svend-Erik Skaaning  and
Jan Teorell
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David Altman ,
Michael Bernhard ,
Fernando Bizzarro ,
Joshua Krusell ,
Matthew Maguire ,
Kyle Marquardt ,
Kelly McMann ,
Valeriya Mechkova ,
Farhad Miri  and
Josefine Pernes
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Michael Coppedge
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
John Gerring
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
Adam Glynn
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
Carl Henrik Knutsen
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Staffan I. Lindberg
Affiliation:
Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
Daniel Pemstein
Affiliation:
North Dakota State University
Brigitte Seim
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Svend-Erik Skaaning
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Jan Teorell
Affiliation:
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
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Summary

Users of V–Dem data should take care to understand how the data are generated because the data collection strategies have consequences for the validity, reliability, and proper interpretation of the values. Chapters 4 and 5 explain how we process the data after collecting the raw scores and how we aggregate the most specific indicators into more general indices. In this chapter we explain where the raw scores come from. We distinguish among the different types of data that V–Dem reports and describe the processes that produce each type and the infrastructure required to execute these processes.

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Varieties of Democracy
Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change
 , pp. 43 - 65
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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