qog

Qog

Name: Qog
Creator: Qog

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download qog series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/qog.html
Update cadence: annual
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/qog/qog.parquet (one file, ~30 MB; schema series_key='QOG:<col>:<ccode>', obs_date=Dec-31 of year, value float64; in-run dedup via 'seen' set on (series_key,obs_date)). Confirmed present, 30,656,145 bytes.

Full description

Quality of Government (QoG) Standard Dataset — Gothenburg University, Jan 2025. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) Source: https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government/qog-data No API key required (direct CSV download). Coverage: ~2,000 variables from 100+ data sources, ~190 countries, 1946–2024. Includes (among others): * Fraser EFW (Economic Freedom of the World) * Freedom House (political rights, civil liberties) * Heritage Index of Economic Freedom * Polity IV / Polity5 (regime type) * V-Dem (varieties of democracy) * World Bank WDI (GDP, poverty, trade) * IMF WEO (fiscal, monetary) * SIPRI (military expenditure) * UNDP HDI * Worldwide Governance Indicators * UN Population Division * Many more specialized sources Run: python jobs/ingest_qog.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/qog.html",
  "identifier": "qog",
  "isAccessibleForFree": false,
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
    "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com"
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  },
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  "sameAs": [
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    "https://zenodo.org/communities/econdatalibrary"
  ],
  "usageInfo": "Metadata-only catalog entry. This source's license does not permit redistribution, so the data itself is not served here; use the provider link to obtain the data under its terms."
}

Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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    },
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    },
    "sc": "https://schema.org/",
    "conformsTo": "dct:conformsTo",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
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  "@type": "sc:Dataset",
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  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/qog.html",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Qog"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
    "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com"
  },
  "isAccessibleForFree": false,
  "usageInfo": "Metadata-only Croissant record; underlying data is not redistributed under this source's license."
}

Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets