The production of country notes was based on two main premises: guarantee comparability across countries and ensure the highest level of quality. These premises were particularly important as the coding of countries was for the most part based on a qualitative assessment of the situation of women and men in a particular country. Several provisions have helped us achieve our objective:
- country notes were based on a common set of guidelines and coding principles that were discussed among the country note authors;
- country notes went through an external review process with a team of researchers from Erasmus University Rotterdam, under the leadership of Prof. Geske Dijkstra;
- country notes were harmonised in style and language by professional editors who ensured that each document uses the same expressions to describe certain phenomena;
- the Social Institutions and Gender Index was constructed by the Development Economics Research Group of Göttingen University, under the leadership of Prof. Stephan Klasen.
Please refer to the graph for more information about the production and quality control process of the country notes.
