On The Straight And Narrow - Statistical Data Included

Business Asia, Sept 13, 1999

Business people's perceptions on the level of corruption in world countries

                 Score   Deviation   Used

Denmark          10.0       0.7       9
Canada            9.2       0.5       9
Singapore         9.1       1.0      10
Australia         8.7       0.7       8
United Kingdom    8.7       0.5      10
Germany           7.9       0.4      10
Hong Kong         7.8       1.1      12
United States     7.5       0.9       8
Japan             5.8       1.6      11
Malaysia          5.3       0.4      11
Taiwan            5.3       0.7      11
South Korea       4.2       1.2      12
Brazil            4.0       0.4       9
China             3.5       0.7      10
Philippines       3.3       1.1      10
Thailand          3.0       0.7      11
India             2.9       0.6      12
Vietnam           2.5       0.5       6
Indonesia         2.0       0.9      10

Ranking are between 1 and 10, with a rating of 10 indicating a totally corruption-free country. The ranking are derived from a number of surveys and reflects the perceptions of business people who participated in the survey. The deviation indicates differences in the values of the sources for the 1998 index: the greater the variance, the greater the differences of perceptions of a country among the sources. The number of surveys used had to be at least 3 for a country to be included in the CPI.3