Summary of Special Codes

specialCodes
Code Meaning
-1 Missing Data, presumably there were elections
-2 missing data because of IDEA disqualification (should no longer exist)
-4 presumably no elections (8th year of filling out. fill out only 7 years with election data)
-7 No suffrage data for Paxton (prob. because country didn't exist)
-9 n/a in IDEA, -99 gets converted into -9 if no other option possible
-10 It is confirmed that an election was held, but no votes are available (recode to -1)
-11 An election was due. It is almost certain it was held, but no votes are available. (recode to -1)
-12 An election was due. It cannot be confirmed that it was held. (recode to -9)
-13 An election was due or it has been 7+ years since the last one. It probably wasn't held (don't code this!) (recode to -4)
-14 Scheduled in 2006, not yet held (recode to -2) (don't use it?)
-15 Election held, but not competitive and/or free (recode to -2)
-99 temporary code to mark data not present when transposing

 


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