V-Dem Data - Version 7
This version of V-Dem data predates the most recent version. We are posting it in the interest of transparency because it may be needed to replicate analyses that used it. However, we want users to be aware that the coverage of countries and years varies across versions and that we continually make improvements to the measurement model and other aspects of the data collection process. Most scores have changed slightly since this version, and some may have changed very noticeably. Unless you are replicating older work or doing specialized research on the evolution of our data collection process, we strongly recommend using the most recent version of data, which you can download from the v-dem.net website.
Download a V-Dem dataset:
- 177 countries – data from 1900 to today
- 350 V-Dem indicators & 45 democracy indices
- Codebook and other related materials
How to:
- Select type of dataset: Country-Year or Country-Date
- Select size: V-Dem data only or V-Dem data + data from other sources
- Select format: SPSS, STATA, STATA-IC, CSV or EXCEL
- Click on the link to download the file. Fill in name, affiliation, and additional information in the pop-up window
- The dataset and documentation are all yours!
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Country-Year: V-DemAll 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Year format) Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output. |
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Country-Year: V-Dem + otherAll 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices + over 300 other indicators from other data sources (Country-Year format). |
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Country-Date: V-DemAll 350+ V-Dem indicators and indices (Country-Date format) Type B, C and D indicators and most indices are in Country-Date format. For details on variable types, see the codebook. Suitable for STATA-IC and other software handling a max of 2,000 variables/columns. STATA-IC version excludes HPD intervals for the ordinal scale and standard devation for the relative and original scale of the Measurement Model output.
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What's New and Cautionary Note:
Please check the "What's New and Cautionary Note" document included in each dataset package.
It is also available for download here What's new log and Cautionary Notes.pdf (65.9 KB) .
Citation:
Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Staffan I. Lindberg, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jan Teorell, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, M. Steven Fish, Adam Glynn, Allen Hicken, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Joshua Krusell, Anna Lührmann, Kyle L. Marquardt, Kelly McMann, Valeriya Mechkova, Moa Olin, Pamela Paxton, Daniel Pemstein, Josefine Pernes, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Johannes von Römer, Laura Saxer, Brigitte Seim, Rachel Sigman, Jeffrey Staton, Natalia Stepanova, and Steven Wilson. 2017. “V-Dem [Country-Year/Country-Date] Dataset v7.” Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. https://doi.org/10.23696/vdemcy17
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Pemstein, Daniel, Kyle L. Marquardt, Eitan Tzelgov, Yi-ting Wang, Joshua Krusell and Farhad Miri. 2017. “The V-Dem Measurement Model: Latent Variable Analysis for Cross-National and Cross-Temporal Expert-Coded Data”. University of Gothenburg, Varieties of Democracy Institute: Working Paper No. 21, 2nd edition.
Working Papers Submissions:
We encourage users of V-Dem data to submit papers to be published by the V-Dem Institute in the "V-Dem Data Users Working Paper Series", more information is available here.
V-Dem Archive
We strongly recommend that you to use the most recent version (v7) that you can download directly from our website.
We also have an archive, here you find:
- the coder-level version of the dataset, and accompanying documentation
- posterior distributions for variables
- older versions (v1-v7)
To access the archive, click here.
