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Methodology and Data Description

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Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016

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In previous GEI publications, we have described the Global Entrepreneurship Index methodology in detail. Here we describe the structure of the dataset, and a short summary of the GEI methodology.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Acs and Szerb (2009, 2012) and Acs, Szerb, and Autio (2013, 2014).

  2. 2.

    Some may not consider the West Bank and Gaza Strip an independent country. Tonga and Vanuatu are tiny countries, and Yemen and Syria have been engaged in civil war over the last few years.

  3. 3.

    In order to check potential bias, the index was calculated without these countries; however, the GEI values and the rank order of the involved countries were basically unchanged.

  4. 4.

    OECD, 2008.

  5. 5.

    The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measures for the original pillar values are 0.91 and 0.94 for the PFB-adjusted pillars, well above the critical value of 0.50. The Bartlett test is significant at the 0.000 level, excluding the possibility that the pillars are not interrelated.

  6. 6.

    We have calculated the c-alpha values for each of the three sub-indices. Using the PFB-adjusted pillar values, the c-alpha scores are 0.86 (ATT pillars), 0.90 (ABT pillars), and 0.90 (ASP pillars).

  7. 7.

    See Acs, Szerb, & Autio, 2014, ch. 6.

References

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA

    Zoltan Acs

  2. Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

    László Szerb

  3. Imperial College Business School, London, London, UK

    Erkko Autio

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Acs, Z., Szerb, L., Autio, E. (2017). Methodology and Data Description. In: Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index 2016. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63844-7_6

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