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The IRIS Dataset was originally constructed in 1993 by Steve Knack and Philip Keefer for the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland, based on data obtained from the International Country Risk Guide. The dataset includes computed scores for six variables: corruption in government, rule of law, bureaucratic quality, ethnic tensions, repudiation of contracts by government, and risk of expropriation. Knack produced subsequent issues of the data for an ongoing series of working papers from the IRIS Center. In its current form, IRIS-3 contains data for the period 1982-1997. The dataset is available in Excel 97 and ASCII formats.

• 1982-1997

• 1998

• Keefer, Philip
• Knack, Steve

• The PRS Group, Inc.

135 Countries

Documentation + Data file

• International
• United States of America

• Country data
• Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS)
• International Country Risk Guide (ICRG)
• Political

• data

• Keefer, Philip
• Knack, Steve

Knack, Steve and Keefer, Philip. IRIS-3: FILE OF INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY RISK GUIDE (ICRG) DATA [Computer file]. 3rd Edition. College Park, Maryland: IRIS [producer], [1998]. East Syracuse, New York: The PRS Group, Inc. [distributor], [1998].

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