Table II. Descriptive statistics for...

Table II.

Descriptive statistics for corruption variables used in the regression

Variable	Obs.	Mean	Median	SD	Minimum	Maximum
CPI_ij	219,980	−4.065	−3.776	1.510	−10	−0.4
CCI_ij	269,942	−1.954	−1.833	0.696	−4.69	−0.04
SCI_ij	25,940	0.931	0.965	0.195	0.005	1.255
Percentage of pairs with RTA
Variable	Below median			Above median
CPI_ij	21.67%			8.97%
CCI_ij	17.27%			8.63%
SCI_ij	7.76%			4.92%

Variable	Obs.	Mean	Median	SD	Minimum	Maximum
CPI_ij	219,980	−4.065	−3.776	1.510	−10	−0.4
CCI_ij	269,942	−1.954	−1.833	0.696	−4.69	−0.04
SCI_ij	25,940	0.931	0.965	0.195	0.005	1.255
Percentage of pairs with RTA
Variable	Below median			Above median
CPI_ij	21.67%			8.97%
CCI_ij	17.27%			8.63%
SCI_ij	7.76%			4.92%

Note:

For the three indexes, a higher value of the variable implies more corruption, Sample period: 1995-2012 for CPI; 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 to 2012 for CCI and 1978, 1983, 1988 and 1994 for SCI

Source: Self made

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