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lawrence dennis
October 21st, 2005, 02:35 AM
Survey sources for the
TI Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2005 (http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2005/cpi2005.sources.en.html)
Transparency International
Corruption Perceptions Index 2005 (http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2005/cpi2005_infocus.html)

The TI Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite survey, reflecting the perceptions of business people and country analysts, both resident and non-resident. It draws on 16 different polls from 10 independent institutions. For a country to be included, it must feature in at least 3 polls. As a result, a number of countries – including some which could be among the most corrupt – are missing because not enough survey data is available.

The Corruption Perceptions Index provides a snapshot, with less capacity to offer year-to-year trends. Nevertheless, time-series data for the CPI have been analysed for the first time this year by Professor Johann Graf Lambsdorff at Passau University in Germany.

TI is advised in relation to the CPI by a group of international specialists. The statistical work on the index was coordinated by Professor Graf Lambsdorff.

Details are available at:
www.transparency.org/surveys/index.html#cpi (http://www.transparency.org/surveys/index.html#cpi)

Corruption Perceptions Index 2005 world map

http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2005/images/worldmap_38kb.jpg http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2005/images/legend.jpg Download world map (PDF) (http://www.transparency.org/cpi/2005/images/world_map.pdf)

Most corrupt are burgandy and deep red, least corrupt are pink. With the exception of the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, all of the white countries are among the least corrupt. But as the darker races increase in the West, corruption increases accompany their rise.