Cultural Distance

For two countries, cultural distance is defined as the average expected disagreement on a question of the World Values Survey by two individuals randomly drawn from those two countries (disagreement = 1 for different answers, 0 for identical answers). The new cultural distance data, based on the "flex" method, can be downloaded here:

A list of the questions used to compute cultural distance can be found here.

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Methodology