POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER

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Aggregating Governance
Indicators

With the right method,

Daniel Kaufmann
Aart Kraay
Pablo Zoido-Lobatn

The World Bank

Development Research Group
Macroeconomics and Growth
and
World Bank Institute
Governance, Regulation and Finance
October 1999

aggregate indicators can

provide useful estimates of
basic governance concepts
as well as measures of the
imprecision of these
aggregate estimates and
their components.

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Summary findings
In recent years the growing interest of academics and
policymakers in governance has been reflected in the
proliferation of cross-country indices measuring
various aspects of governance.
Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatn explain how a
simple variant of an unobserved components model
can be used to combine the information from these
different sources into aggregate governance indicators.
The main advantage of this method is that it allows
quantification of the precision of both individual
sources of governance data and country-specific
aggregate governance indicators.
Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatn illustrate the
methodology by constructing aggregate indicators of
bureaucratic quality, rule of law, and graft for a sample
of 160 countries. Although these aggregate governance
indicators are more informative about the level of

governance than any single indicator, the standard

errors associated with estimates of governance are still
large relative to the units in which governance is
measured. In light of these margins of error, it is
misleading to offer very precise rankings of countries
according to their level of governance: small differences
in country rankings are unlikely to be statisticallylet
alone practicallysignificant. Nevertheless, these
aggregate governance indicators are useful because they
allow countries to be sorted into broad groupings
according to levels of governance, and they can be used
to study the causes and consequences of governance in
a much larger sample countries than previously used
(see for example the companion paper by Kaufmann,
Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatn, Governance Matters,
Policy Research Working Paper 2196).

This papera joint product of Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group; and Governance, Regulation,
and Finance, World Bank Instituteis part of a larger effort in the Bank to study the causes and consequences of governance
for development. Copies of this paper are available free from the World Bank, 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433.
Please contact Diane Bouvet, Room J3-273, telephone 202-473-5818, fax 202-334-8350, email dbouvet@worldbank.org. This
paper is also available on the Web at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/working_papers.htm. The authors may be
contacted at dkaufmann@worldbank.org, akraay@worldbank.org, or pzoidolobaton@worldbank.org. October 1999. (39 pages)

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development
issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the
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those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.

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