RTLDI ATLAS 2026 V-Dem Source
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Dataset provenance

V-Dem Data Used by the Atlas

The corrected 2026 score table uses V-Dem Country-Year Core v15 and 2024 country-year observations. The raw source artifact is not redistributed in this repository.

Atlas score provenance

V-Dem v15

Official Core country-year data; observation year 2024.

Current update workflow

V-Dem v16

Core is sufficient for every V-Dem field in the nine-lever crosswalk.

Download and rebuild

  1. Download the official v15 R data artifact used for this correction.
  2. Verify SHA-256 4b715190a1e351a81daf11cbe6f9f77e67d8914f0ed612b93e2d8fba5523e540.
  3. Export the required country-year columns to data/raw/V-Dem-CY-Core-v15.csv.
  4. Run python3 -m src.build_atlas --year 2026 --eta 0.36.

For a current-data update, use the official dataset page and Country-Year Core v16. The official v16 codebook documents the current fields. V-Dem model-estimate columns are latent interval estimates, not original 0–4 coder categories.

Replication boundary: a v16 rebuild is a refreshed analysis and may revise scores because V-Dem re-estimates historical values between releases. The source URL and checksum above identify the exact official v15 artifact used by this local build.