Overview of the index of perception of corruption

Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Index of perception of corruption ordering the countries of the world according to the level of public perception of corruption of public and political functionaries. Jump to: navigation, search 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The contrary is true The 10 least corrupt countries, according to the Transparency International perception survey, 2004. ...

The 2003 poll covered 133 countries. The results show seven out of every ten countries (and nine out of every ten developing countries) with an index of less than 5 points out of 10. Jump to: navigation, search 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

As this index is based on polls, the results are subjective and are less reliable for countries with fewer sources. Also, what is legally defined, or perceived, to be corruption differs between jurisdictions: a political donation legal in some jurisdiction may be illegal in another; a matter viewed as acceptable tipping in one country may be viewed as bribery in another. Thus the poll results must be understood quite specifically as measuring public perception rather than being an objective measure of corruption. A tip (also known as gratuity) is a small amount of money received by some service sector professionals from persons they serve, in addition to or instead of a formally required payment. ... Bribery is the practice of offering a professional or an authority person money or other favours in order to circumvent ethics or other rules in a variety of situations. ...

Statistics like this are necessarily imprecise; statistics from different years are not necessarily comparable. The ICCR itself explains, "…year-to-year changes in a country's score result not only from a changing perception of a country's performance but also from a changing sample and methodology. Each year, some sources are not updated and must be dropped from the CPI, while new, reliable sources are added. With differing respondents and slightly differing methodologies, a change in a country's score may also relate to the fact that different viewpoints have been collected and different questions been asked… [despite] anti-corruption reform… [or] recent exposure of corruption scandals… [i]t is often difficult to improve a CPI score over a short time period, such as one or two years. The CPI is based on data from the past three years (for more on this, see the question on the sources of data, below). This means that a change in perceptions of corruption would only emerge in the index over longer periods of time." They also discuss that over time they have shifted from public surveys in the country to surveys of experts, and that they have increased their polling of experts from developing countries about their perceptions of corruption in advanced countries. ^[1] Bosnia and Herzegovina (also variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ... Moldavia (Moldova in Romanian) was a Romanian principality, originally created in the Middle Ages, now divided between Romania, Moldovan Republic and Ukraine. ... The West Bank The Palestinian National Authority (PNA or PA) is a semi-autonomous state institution nominally governing the bulk of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (which it calls the Palestinian Territories). It was established as a part of Oslo accords between the PLO and Israel. ... Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан) is a country in Central Asia. ... Côte dIvoire (often called Ivory Coast in English; see below about the name) is a country in West Africa. ...

References

• The table and a small amount of text came from the corresponding article in the Spanish-language wikipedia.
• ^  ICCR FAQ, accessed 4 July 2005.

External Links

• Internet Center for Corruption Research
• Transparency International 2004 Corruption Perceptions Index
• Transparency International 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index
• Survey instrument to measure disaggregated corruption indicators

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