Are international databases on corruption reliable? A comparison of expert opinion surveys and household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

By Mireille Razafindrakoto, F. Roubaud. 2010

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Six, One, or None? (2010, background): “Donchev and Ujhelyi (2008) and Razafindrakoto and Roubaud (2006) show that actual corruption experiences as reported in household surveys are weak predictors of corruption perceptions by ‘experts’.”
Greasing the Wheels of Change: Bribery, Institutions, and New Product Introductions in Emerging Markets (2019, background): “However, previous research has shown that there is no significant bias, as aggregated measures of corruption from surveys are statistically comparable to the other objective measures (Fries, Lysenko, & Polanec, 2003; Razafindrakoto & Roubaud, 2010).”
On the advantages and disadvantages of subjective measures (2014, background): “Explicit displays are measured by the total amount of money taken from those projects an investor decided to pursue in any given environment, and implicit displays are measured by the amount of money that would have been taken from projects that the investor decided not to pursue.(15) As explained b”
How (Not) to measure institutions (2012, methodology): “Rosenthal and Voeten (2007) use factor analysis to identify the principal components of procedural formalism.”
Playing dirty or building capability? Corruption and HR training as competitive actions to threats from informal and foreign firm rivals (2016, methodology): “Finally, we acknowledge that the corruption measures used in the World Bank survey data have sometimes been criticized for their reliability (Razafindrakoto and Roubaud, 2010).”
What Do Corruption Indices Measure (2014, background): “A related paper by Razafindrakoto and Roubaud (2010) finds a variety of biases in the perceptions of country experts relative to the experiences of ordinary citizens in 8 African countries.10 A common characteristic of these studies is that they cover a specific geographical area, activity, or…”