{
  "alt": "A table with eight rows, one per survey item, naming the axis, the item with its survey code and the answer that counts as right. The data table also gives the wording at each end of the scale and which end enters the index as the right-wing pole.",
  "caption": "Government responsibility, state ownership, competition and all three moral items count the low end of the scale as the right-wing answer, and income differences and the importance of God count the high end. The economic index averages the four economic items, the moral index averages the three moral items and the religious axis is the importance of God alone. The direction comes from the scale labels in the survey dictionary, not from the correlation with left-right.",
  "data": [
    {
      "axis": "Economic",
      "high_end": "We need larger income differences as incentives",
      "item": "Income differences (E035)",
      "low_end": "Incomes should be made more equal",
      "right_answer": "We need larger income differences as incentives",
      "right_pole": "High end",
      "survey_code": "E035"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Economic",
      "high_end": "The government should take more responsibility",
      "item": "Government responsibility (E037)",
      "low_end": "People should take more responsibility",
      "right_answer": "People should take more responsibility",
      "right_pole": "Low end",
      "survey_code": "E037"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Economic",
      "high_end": "Government ownership of business should be increased",
      "item": "State ownership of business (E036)",
      "low_end": "Private ownership of business should be increased",
      "right_answer": "Private ownership of business should be increased",
      "right_pole": "Low end",
      "survey_code": "E036"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Economic",
      "high_end": "Competition is harmful",
      "item": "Competition (E039)",
      "low_end": "Competition is good",
      "right_answer": "Competition is good",
      "right_pole": "Low end",
      "survey_code": "E039"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Moral",
      "high_end": "Always justifiable",
      "item": "Homosexuality (F118)",
      "low_end": "Never justifiable",
      "right_answer": "Never justifiable",
      "right_pole": "Low end",
      "survey_code": "F118"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Moral",
      "high_end": "Always justifiable",
      "item": "Abortion (F120)",
      "low_end": "Never justifiable",
      "right_answer": "Never justifiable",
      "right_pole": "Low end",
      "survey_code": "F120"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Moral",
      "high_end": "Always justifiable",
      "item": "Divorce (F121)",
      "low_end": "Never justifiable",
      "right_answer": "Never justifiable",
      "right_pole": "Low end",
      "survey_code": "F121"
    },
    {
      "axis": "Religious",
      "high_end": "Very important",
      "item": "Importance of God (F063)",
      "low_end": "Not at all important",
      "right_answer": "Very important",
      "right_pole": "High end",
      "survey_code": "F063"
    }
  ],
  "id": "index_coding",
  "source": "World Values Survey and European Values Study cleaned dictionary, fieldwork 2005-2023; item wording and coding, no estimates or weights",
  "spec": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "axis",
        "label": "Axis"
      },
      {
        "key": "item",
        "label": "Item"
      },
      {
        "key": "right_answer",
        "label": "Answer that counts as right"
      }
    ]
  },
  "subtitle": "Items used for the economic, moral and religious axes in the World Values Survey and EVS, with the answer that counts as right",
  "table": {
    "columns": [
      {
        "key": "axis",
        "label": "Axis"
      },
      {
        "key": "item",
        "label": "Item"
      },
      {
        "key": "survey_code",
        "label": "Survey code"
      },
      {
        "key": "low_end",
        "label": "Low end of the scale"
      },
      {
        "key": "high_end",
        "label": "High end of the scale"
      },
      {
        "key": "right_pole",
        "label": "Right-wing pole"
      },
      {
        "key": "right_answer",
        "label": "Answer that counts as right"
      }
    ]
  },
  "title": "The right-wing end of every item is fixed in advance from the wording of its answer scale",
  "type": "table",
  "width": "body"
}