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Is there a correlation between Women on Facebook and democracy?

Posted on May 21, 2013May 6, 2023 by N.A.M.

Abstract: We compare the democracy score and the gender ratio of different countries on Facebook and find a very strong correlation between the percentage of women on Facebook and democracy.

 

We use the gender data provided by the Facebook ads system for 11 countries: Lebanon, France, USA, KSA, Kuwait, Egypt, UAE, Italy, Sweden, UK and Canada.

 

Lebanon

France

USA

KSA

Kuwait

Egypt

ALL

1,522,960

25,349,340

158,828,500

5,350,020

790,460

14,020,540

F

669,360

12,911,360

82,757,620

1,484,560

261,280

4,980,720

M

822,760

12,157,220

71,055,220

3,857,020

524,180

8,971,500

Not Specified

30,840

280,760

5,015,660

8,440

5,000

68,320

 

UAE

Italy

Sweden

UK

Canada

ALL

3,423,360

23,332,320

4,738,280

31,164,520

17,783,580

F

1,087,500

10,907,020

2,386,680

15,915,120

9,346,580

M

2,313,380

12,301,860

2,279,840

14,664,860

7,996,760

Not Specified

22,480

123,440

71,760

584,540

440,240

 

We then determine the Women/Men ratio for each country:

 

W/M

Leb.

Fr.

USA

KSA

Kuwait

Egypt

UAE

Italy

Sweden

UK

Canada

Rank

7

4

2

11

9

8

10

6

5

3

1

Ratio

0.81

1.06

1.164

0.38

0.49

0.55

0.47

0.88

1.04

1.08

1.168

 

The democracy index is retrieved from The Democracy Index 2012 from The Economist Intelligence Unit (https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=DemocracyIndex12) and gender gap indexes (2012) from The Global Gender Gap Report (Hausmann, Tyson & Zahidi, 2012) from the World Economic Forum (http://templatelab.com/global-gender-gap-report/)

 

Leb.

Fr.

USA

KSA

Kuwait

Egypt

UAE

Italy

Sweden

UK

Canada

Democracy
Score

5.05

7.88

8.11

1.71

3.78

4.56

2.58

7.74

9.73

8.21

9.08

Gender
Gap

0.603

0.6984

0.7373

0.5731

0.632

0.5975

0.6392

0.6729

0.8159

0.7433

0.7381

 

Results:

democracy-ratio

Ratio / Democracy

Ratio / Gender Gap

R (Correlation coefficient)

0.95071

0.832496

R2 (coefficient of determination)

0.9039

0.693

ggg

 

There is a very strong positive linear correlation (R) and a high coefficient of determination between the gender ratio and the democracy score.

 

The coefficient of determination is high, yet lower (70% certainty) when comparing gender ratio on Facebook and the gender gap.

 

It would be nice to include more countries to this exercise (when I have more time)…

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