The EfDI and its Components

The EfDI consists of national-level data on system characteristics and educational policies and practices that have been found in the literature to promote democratic competences and/or to diminish inequality in such competences. Higher scores on the main index or its subindexes mean that a country’s policies and practices do a relatively good job in promoting these outcomes—i.e., increasing both performance levels of and equality in democratic competences.

The EfDI and its subindexes are multidimensional. They comprise a set of indicators covering seven educational areas that are important for the formation of democratic competences. To build the EfDI conceptually, we started by drawing on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) of the Council of Europe (CoE) to identify these competences (i.e., the values, attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behaviors that support democracy).

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