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 |
5.05 |
7.88 |
8.11 |
1.71 |
3.78 |
4.56 |
2.58 |
7.74 |
9.73 |
8.21 |
9.08 |
|
Gender |
0.603 |
0.6984 |
0.7373 |
0.5731 |
0.632 |
0.5975 |
0.6392 |
0.6729 |
0.8159 |
0.7433 |
0.7381 |
Results:
|
Ratio / Democracy |
Ratio / Gender Gap |
|
| R (Correlation coefficient) |
0.95071 |
0.832496 |
| R2 (coefficient of determination) |
0.9039 |
0.693 |
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)…