1. Corruption and its effects on society
Chris Tolson
Gabriela Polo Tomala
Jeanelle Brisbane
Tannyr Lamica

2. Background
Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.
Can be petty (low and mid level officials) or grand (high ranking officials).
Corruption can cost people lives, freedom, health and money

3. Main Goals of Our Project
Explore corruption value data for countries around the world.
Examine how corruption affects society by environmental, political, and social standards.

4. Objectives Develop a composite indicator composed of: CO2 emissions
Forest cover
Educational expenditure (as % of total govt. spending)
Military expenditure (as % of total govt. spending)
HDI
Poverty ratio
Incarceration rates
This indicator is called the Social Standing Indicator.

5. Objectives
Compare our composite indicator to the Transparency International perceived corruption index to determine if corruption plays a role in a society.
Comparison based on a selection of countries, chosen due to a wide range of corruption values, and geographical range.
China
Indonesia
Malaysia
Mexico
Brazil
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

8. Our Countries China - 3.5 Indonesia - 2.8 Malaysia - 4.4 Mexico - 3.1
Brazil - 3.7
Uruguay - 6.9
Sweden 9.2
Italy - 3.9
Kenya - 2.1
South Africa - 4.5

9. Corruption Index Notable values:
Highest: Denmark, New Zealand, Singapore - 9.3
Canada - 8.9
Japan - 7.8
U.S
India - 3.3
Russia - 2.1
Iraq - 1.5
Lowest: Somalia - 1.1

10. Results Percent Forest Cover Country Ranking China 4 Indonesia 2
Malaysia 1
Mexico 3
Brazil
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya 5
South Africa

11. CO2 emissions
Country
Ranking
China 5
Indonesia 3
Malaysia 2
Mexico
Brazil
Uruguay 1
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

12. Education Expenditure %
Country
Ranking
China 2
Indonesia 4
Malaysia 1
Mexico
Brazil 5
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

13. Military Expenditure
Countries
Ranking
China 2
Indonesia
Malaysia
Mexico 1
Brazil
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

14. HDI
Countries
Ranking
China 5
Indonesia
Malaysia 3
Mexico
Brazil 4
Uruguay
Sweden 1
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

15. Poverty Rate
Countries
Ranking
China 4
Indonesia 2
Malaysia 1
Mexico
Brazil 3
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

16. Incarceration rate
Country
Ranking
China 3
Indonesia 2
Malaysia
Mexico
Brazil 4
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

17. Final Map Composite Country Ranking China 4 Indonesia 3 Malaysia 2
Mexico
Brazil
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa

18. Country SSI value China 0.71 Indonesia 0.57 Malaysia 0.37 Mexico 0.60
Brazil
0.63
Uruguay
Sweden
Italy
Kenya
South Africa
0.69

19. R Squared = 0.22

20. Conclusion
Weak correlation between the Corruption perceptions index and our developed Social Standing Indicator
There is not a relationship between the two indices
Corruption perceptions index and composite index are not full representations of corruption on all levels due to the splitting up of the data and inability to factor in every possible contributor to corruption.

21. Conclusion Limitations:
The individual indicators that we chose may not be an accurate representation of social standing
Missing data for countries in individual indicators
Data is not available for same year, so some indicators have data originating from different years

22. Questions?