• How to enter the ‘collected data’ into a dataset

    The aim of entering the data into a dataset is to standardize the data that is collected by governments to make it appropriate for quantitative analyses. The data contained in government forms for one country is entered into an Airtable alongside the tables for other countries.

    Step 1: Open a new Airtable and create a tab for each form within the table.

    Tip: It is easiest and safest to duplicate an existing table (without the records) so that the variable names do not need to be copied manually.

    Step 2: Enter all the fields as ‘Element Names’ into the dataset. Check for potential containers/sections and input them as their own element.

    Tip: Make sure to also add the element names of the container/section fields as the ‘Parent Element Name’ of the element contained in the container/section. To do so you need to analyze the structure of the form.

    Step 3: Add the values for all other elements and variables.

    Tip: Consult the section ‘GLOSSARY OF VARIABLES’ below to identify the correct values for each element/field and variable.

    Often, the values for the published data type variables resemble or match the collected data for the same element.

  • Bloodgood, Elizabeth; Lenczner, Michael; Bourns, Jesse; Tabet, Jenny; Shibaike, Takumi; Faubert, Michael; Unger, William; Chedhoudi, Rafaa; Tsang, Andrea; Ward, William; Stroup, Sarah S.; Wong, Wendy H., "Global Register of Nonprofit Data (GRNDS)," https://borealisdata.ca/dataverse/GRNDS.

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  • ARIADNE, the European Foundation Centre and and the International Human Rights Funders Group. “Challenging the Closing Space for Civil Society: A practical starting point for funders.” (May 2016): 1-32.

    Bloodgood, Elizabeth, Takumi Shibaike, Jenny Tabet, Amy Melvin, Jesse Bourns, Michael Lenczner and Wendy Wong. “Comparative Nonprofit Data Environments: Regulatory Regimes and Officially Reported National Data.”

    Christensen, Darin and Jeremy M. Weinstein. “Defunding Dissent: Restrictions on Aid to NGOs” Journal of Democracy 24, no. 2(2013): 77-91.

    DeMattee, Anthony J. “Toward a Coherent Framework: A Typology and Conceptualization of CSO Regulatory Regimes” Nonprofit Policy Forum 9, no. 4 (2019): 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2018-0011.

    Dupuy, Kendra and James Ron and Aseem Prakash. “Hands Off My Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries” World Development 84 (August 2016): 299-311. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.02.001.

    ICNL (International Centre for Not-for-profit Law). “The Civic Space Initiative.” https://www.icnl.org/our-work/global-programs/the-civic-space-initiative.

    Rutzen, Douglas. “Authoritarianism Goes Global (II): Civil Society Under Assault” Journal of Democracy 26, no. 4(2015): 2

  • Articles

    Bloodgood, E.A., Stroup, S.S. & Wong, W.H. What Counts? How to use Different Sources of NGO Data. Voluntas (2021).

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00396-w

    Book Chapters

    E. A. Bloodgood. “Primary Data on NGOs: Pushing the Bounds of Present Possibilities.” Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations, edited by Thomas Davies. Chapter 15, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315268927

    Elizabeth A. Bloodgood. “Quantifying NGOs.” In Handbook on Non-Governmental Organizations, Aynsley Kellow and Hannah Murphy-Gregory, eds. London: Edward Elger, 2018.

    Conference Papers

    Elizabeth A. Bloodgood, “Politics of Forms.” International Society of Third Sector Research Virtual Meeting, July 2021.

    Elizabeth Bloodgood, Takumi Shibaike, Jenny Tabet, Amy Melvin, Jesse Bourns, Michael Lenczner, and Wendy Wong. “Comparative Data Environments.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 2019 and the International Studies Association Annual Conference, Virtual, April 2021.

    Elizabeth Bloodgood, Jesse Bourns, Michael Lenczner, Takumi Shibaike, Jenny Tabet, and Wendy Wong. “Explaining National Nonprofit Data Environments: Data to Enable or Constrain?” Presented at the Association of Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Associations Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November 2018 and the International Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, March 2019.

    Elizabeth A. Bloodgood and Jesse Bourns. “Networks of Influence: Patterns in NGO Giving and Receiving.” Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 2017; International Society of Third Sector Research, Amsterdam, NL, July 2018; and the Association of Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Associations Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, 2018.