help qoguse
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Title

    Using Quality of Government (QoG) Data

Syntax

        qoguse [varlist] [if] [in] , version() format() [years() clear]


Description

    qoguse loades the most recent release of the Quality of Government (QoG)
    datasets from the internet into memory. If you don`t need the complete
    dataset, you can opt for specific variables with [varlist] and/or years
    with the option years.

    version() defines which version of the QoG-data you want to use. The
        alternatives are Basic (bas), Standard (std), Social Policy (soc) and
        the Expert Survey (exp) dataset. Each version has different formats
        which you have to specify:

    format() defines the different datasets. For the Basic and Standard
        version you can choose between Cross-Section Data (cs) and
        Time-Series Data (ts). For the Social Policy dataset you can choose
        cross-Section Data(cs) or Time-Series Data in a long (tsl) or in a
        wide format (tsw). The Expert Survey is available as Individual-Level
        (ind) or Country-Level (ctry) data.

other Options

    years(numlist) specifies the different years to be kept in the data. You
        can use a numlist to specify the years, which must be in
        4-digit-format (e.g. years(1990 1995/1997 2002)). This option is only
        available with the following format()-options: ts, tsl and ind.

    clear specifies that it is okay to replace the data in memory, even
        though the current data have not been saved to disk.


The QoG-data is provided by University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government
>  Institute.

Examples

    . qoguse, version(bas) format(cs) clear

    . qoguse ccode year bdm_* ar_cbi, version(std) format(ts) clear

    . qoguse, version(soc) format(tsl) y(1990 1995/1997 2002) clear

    . qoguse, version(exp) format(ctry) clear


Author

    Christoph Thewes, University of Potsdam, thewes@uni-potsdam.de

Also see

    Help: use, qogmerge (if installed)

    Source: http://www.qog.pol.gu.se

    Data: http://www.qog.pol.gu.se/data/