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Financial Development and Structure 1960-2010

Aruba, Afghanistan, Angola...and 192 more, 1960 - 2010
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Reference ID
WLD_1960-2010_FDS_v02_M
Producer(s)
Thorsten Beck and Asli Demirguc-Kunt (World Bank), Ross Eric Levine (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota)
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Regulation (f_regu97)

Data file: request8095

Overview

Valid: 98
Invalid: 8
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1046
End: 1046
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 5
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 4
4.1%
2 33
33.7%
3 37
37.8%
4 21
21.4%
5 3
3.1%
Sysmiss 8
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Universe
1980-1995
Source of information
LLSV (1998b), using data from Economic Freedom of the World, 1975-1995.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
Rating of regulation policies related to opening and keeping open a business. The scale is from 0 to 5, with higher scores meaning that regulations are straightforward and applied uniformly to all businesses and that regulations are less of a burden to business.
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