Evaluates how openly governments disclose budgeting processes, expenditures, and fiscal policies. Indicators:
- Budget Transparency This Indicator represents the mean value of several questions from the Open Budget Survey, measuring transparency in the Executive’s Budget Proposal
- Fiscal Transparency (T-Index) A composite indicator derived from the T-Index assessing the online availability of public expenditure information.
Assesses how government agencies and public institutions communicate their operations and decision-making processes, ensuring citizens have access to administrative data, such as policies and regulations, to hold government actions accountable. Indicators:
- Administrative Transparency This indicator consists of the standardized sum of individual scores for relevant items in the de facto Transparency Index
Assesses the availability of court proceedings and legal decisions to the public, ensuring an open judiciary. Includes the publication of court rulings and legal interpretations. Indicators:
- Judicial Transparency (T-index) A composite indicator derived from the T-Index assessing the online availability of national legislation, Supreme Court decisions, and hearing schedules.
Assesses the level of transparency in electoral processes, including voter registration, political campaign financing, and electoral outcome integrity. Indicators:
- Total score for de facto transparency This score captures the existence of online portals to access relevant government information. It evaluates 14 different categories ranging from supreme court rulings, government expenditures and registers of commerce, to procurement information, mining concessions and financial disclosure of politicians.
Measures the availability and accessibility of disclosures essential for accountability in public office. Indicators:
- Political Transparency (T-Index) A composite indicator derived from the T-Index assessing the availability of financial disclosures and conflict of interest disclosures of public officials
Assesses both the legislative framework and factual conditions that affect government transparency. Indicators:
- Transparency Index (Total Score) The T-Index provides a score that measures the real (de facto) and legal (de jure) transparency of governments. It evaluates the availability, accessibility, and comprehensiveness of key public information required to deter corruption.
- Transparency Index (%) The Transparency Index score represented as a percentage.
