Human Freedom Index

Description

The Human Freedom Index is a report that attempts to summarize the idea of "freedom" through a bunch of different variables for many countries around the globe. It serves as a rough objective measure for the relationships between the different types of freedom - whether it's political, religious, economical or personal freedom - and other social and economic circumstances. The Human Freedom Index is an annually co-published report by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Usage

hfi

Format

A data frame with 1458 observations on the following 123 variables.

year

Year

ISO_code

ISO code of country

countries

Name of country

region

Region where country is located

pf_rol_procedural

Procedural justice

pf_rol_civil

Civil justice

pf_rol_criminal

Criminal justice

pf_rol

Rule of law

pf_ss_homicide

Homicide

pf_ss_disappearances_disap

Disappearances

pf_ss_disappearances_violent

Violent conflicts

pf_ss_disappearances_organized

Violent conflicts

pf_ss_disappearances_fatalities

Terrorism fatalities

pf_ss_disappearances_injuries

Terrorism injuries

pf_ss_disappearances

Disappearances, conflict, and terrorism

pf_ss_women_fgm

Female genital mutilation

pf_ss_women_missing

Missing women

pf_ss_women_inheritance_widows

Inheritance rights for widows

pf_ss_women_inheritance_daughters

Inheritance rights for daughters

pf_ss_women_inheritance

Inheritance

pf_ss_women

Women's security

pf_ss

Security and safety

pf_movement_domestic

Freedom of domestic movement

pf_movement_foreign

Freedom of foreign movement

pf_movement_women

Women's movement

pf_movement

Freedom of movement

pf_religion_estop_establish

Freedom to establish religious organizations

pf_religion_estop_operate

Freedom to operate religious organizations

pf_religion_estop

Freedom to establish and operate religious organizations

pf_religion_harassment

Harassment and physical hostilities

pf_religion_restrictions

Legal and regulatory restrictions

pf_religion

Religious freedom

pf_association_association

Freedom of association

pf_association_assembly

Freedom of assembly

pf_association_political_establish

Freedom to establish political parties

pf_association_political_operate

Freedom to operate political parties

pf_association_political

Freedom to establish and operate political parties

pf_association_prof_establish

Freedom to establish professional organizations

pf_association_prof_operate

Freedom to operate professional organizations

pf_association_prof

Freedom to establish and operate professional organizations

pf_association_sport_establish

Freedom to establish educational, sporting, and cultural organizations

pf_association_sport_operate

Freedom to operate educational, sporting, and cultural organizations

pf_association_sport

Freedom to establish and operate educational, sporting, and cultural organizations

pf_association

Freedom to associate and assemble with peaceful individuals or organizations

pf_expression_killed

Press killed

pf_expression_jailed

Press jailed

pf_expression_influence

Laws and regulations that influence media content

pf_expression_control

Political pressures and controls on media content

pf_expression_cable

Access to cable/satellite

pf_expression_newspapers

Access to foreign newspapers

pf_expression_internet

State control over internet access

pf_expression

Freedom of expression

pf_identity_legal

Legal gender

pf_identity_parental_marriage

Parental rights in marriage

pf_identity_parental_divorce

Parental rights after divorce

pf_identity_parental

Parental rights

pf_identity_sex_male

Male-to-male relationships

pf_identity_sex_female

Female-to-female relationships

pf_identity_sex

Same-sex relationships

pf_identity_divorce

Divor

pf_identity

Identity and relationships

pf_score

Personal Freedom (score)

pf_rank

Personal Freedom (rank)

ef_government_consumption

Government consumption

ef_government_transfers

Transfers and subsidies

ef_government_enterprises

Government enterprises and investments

ef_government_tax_income

Top marginal income tax rate - Top marginal income tax rates

ef_government_tax_payroll

Top marginal income tax rate - Top marginal income and payroll tax rate

ef_government_tax

Top marginal tax rate

ef_government

Size of government

ef_legal_judicial

Judicial independence

ef_legal_courts

Impartial courts

ef_legal_protection

Protection of property rights

ef_legal_military

Military interference in rule of law and politics

ef_legal_integrity

Integrity of the legal system

ef_legal_enforcement

Legal enforcement of contracts

ef_legal_restrictions

Regulatory restrictions on the sale of real property

ef_legal_police

Reliability of police

ef_legal_crime

Business costs of crime

ef_legal_gender

Gender adjustment

ef_legal

Legal system and property rights

ef_money_growth

Money growth

ef_money_sd

Standard deviation of inflation

ef_money_inflation

Inflation - most recent year

ef_money_currency

Freedom to own foreign currency bank account

ef_money

Sound money

ef_trade_tariffs_revenue

Tariffs - Revenue from trade taxes (percentage of trade sector)

ef_trade_tariffs_mean

Tariffs - Mean tariff rate

ef_trade_tariffs_sd

Tariffs - Standard deviation of tariffs rates

ef_trade_tariffs

Tariffs

ef_trade_regulatory_nontariff

Regulatory trade barriers - Nontariff trade barriers

ef_trade_regulatory_compliance

Regulatory trade barriers - Compliance costs of importing and exporting

ef_trade_regulatory

Regulatory trade barriers

ef_trade_black

Black-market exchange rates

ef_trade_movement_foreign

Controls of the movement of capital and people - Foreign ownership/investment restrictions

ef_trade_movement_capital

Controls of the movement of capital and people - Capital controls

ef_trade_movement_visit

Controls of the movement of capital and people - Freedom of foreigners to visit

ef_trade_movement

Controls of the movement of capital and people

ef_trade

Freedom to trade internationally

ef_regulation_credit_ownership

Credit market regulations - Ownership of banks

ef_regulation_credit_private

Credit market regulations - Private sector credit

ef_regulation_credit_interest

Credit market regulations - Interest rate controls/negative real interest rates

ef_regulation_credit

Credit market regulation

ef_regulation_labor_minwage

Labor market regulations - Hiring regulations and minimum wage

ef_regulation_labor_firing

Labor market regulations - Hiring and firing regulations

ef_regulation_labor_bargain

Labor market regulations - Centralized collective bargaining

ef_regulation_labor_hours

Labor market regulations - Hours regulations

ef_regulation_labor_dismissal

Labor market regulations - Dismissal regulations

ef_regulation_labor_conscription

Labor market regulations - Conscription

ef_regulation_labor

Labor market regulation

ef_regulation_business_adm

Business regulations - Administrative requirements

ef_regulation_business_bureaucracy

Business regulations - Bureaucracy costs

ef_regulation_business_start

Business regulations - Starting a business

ef_regulation_business_bribes

Business regulations - Extra payments/bribes/favoritism

ef_regulation_business_licensing

Business regulations - Licensing restrictions

ef_regulation_business_compliance

Business regulations - Cost of tax compliance

ef_regulation_business

Business regulation

ef_regulation

Economic freedom regulation score

ef_score

Economic freedom score

ef_rank

Economic freedom rank

hf_score

Human freedom score

hf_rank

Human freedom rank

hf_quartile

Human freedom quartile

Details

This dataset contains information from Human Freedom Index reports from 2008-2016.

Source

Ian Vasquez and Tanja Porcnik, The Human Freedom Index 2018: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom (Washington: Cato Institute, Fraser Institute, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, 2018). https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/human-freedom-index-2016.pdf. https://www.kaggle.com/gsutters/the-human-freedom-index.