Time trends are here assemble by stitching together individual files for the three Northern Triangle countries.

NOTE: While indicator names might be consistent from year to year, values aren’t necessarily. In 2014, cp5 (tried to solve a community problem) was on a scale of 1-4 (4=never). Earlier years just used 1=yes, 2=no, so it looks like there was a big jump in 2008.

Migration

q14 Intends to Live or Work Abroad

Civic and Political Engagement

Political ideology

The distribution of political ideology (l1) is interesting; the largest group puts themselves smack in the middle, rather than tilting left or right. This centrist group (most likely politically disengaged) has stayed pretty constant over the last decade, while on average the right is losing out to the left.

cp2 Requested Help from a Member of the Legislature

cp13 Attendance at Meetings of Political Parties

cp20 Attendance at Meetings of Women’s Group

cp6 Attendance at Meetings of Religious Organization

The number of occasional churchgoers has been pretty constant (and low); it looks like the population of weekly churchgoers has been growing while non-attenders have been dropping since 2008. What changed in 2008?

cp7 Attendance at Meetings of Parent Association

cp8 Attendance at Meetings for Community Improvements

prot3 Participated in a Protest

vb10 Identifies with a Political Party

vb2 Voted in Last Presidential Election

vb20 Vote Intention for President

The question about approval of political demonstrations (e5) lets people express a range from strong approval to strong disapproval – most are somewhere in the middle. People who are actively approving of political demonstrations seem to be losing ground to those who are either wishy-washy or disapproving

Again, 2008 looks like some kind of turning point.

Climate Change/Disaster Risk Reduction

drk1 Likelihood of Death or Harm from Natural Disaster

dst1b Spend More to Enforce Building Codes

env2b Seriousness of Climate Change

Corruption

exc11 Asked to Pay Bribe to Process Document in Municipality

exc13 Asked to Pay a Bribe at Work

exc14 Asked to Pay a Bribe to the Courts

exc15 Asked to Pay a Bribe to use Public Health Services

exc16 Asked to Pay a Bribe at School

exc18 Paying a Bribe is Justified

exc2 Police Officer Asked for a Bribe

exc20 Soldier Requested a Bribe

exc6 Government Employee Asked for a Bribe

exc7 Perception of Public Corruption among Public Officials

exc7new Amount of Corruption among Politicians

Crime, Insecurity, and Policy Preferences

aoj11 Perception of Neighborhood Insecurity

aoj12 Confidence that Judiciary will Punish the Guilty

vic1ext Victim of Crime

vic1exta Victim of Crime in the Last 12 Months (Frequency)

Evaluation of Institutions, Political System and Other Persons

a4 Most Important Problem

b1 Courts Guarantee Fair Trial

b12 Trust in Armed Forces

b13 Trust in the National Legislature

b18 Trust in National Police

b2 Respect for Political Institutions

b20 Trust in Catholic Church

b20a Trust in Evangelical/Protestant Church

b21 Trust in Political Parties

b21a Trust in Executive

b3 Basic Rights are Protected

b31 Trust in the Supreme Court of Justice

b32 Trust in Local Government

b37 Trust in the Media

b4 Pride in Political System

b47a Trust in Elections

b6 People Should Support the Political System

eff1 Leaders Are Interested in What People Think

eff2 Understands Important Political Issues

it1 Interpersonal Trust

lib1 Level of Freedom of the Press Today

lib2c Level of Freedom to Express Political Opinions without Fear

m1 Executive Job Approval

Military coup is justified if crime is high

Whatever happened in 2008, it also coincided with a sudden rise in the number of people who are open to the idea of a military coup.

Foreign Relations

mil10a Trustworthiness of Chinese Government

mil10e Trustworthiness of US Government

Gender

vb50 Men Are Better Political Leaders than Women

vb51 Men or Women: More Corrupt as Politicians

vb52 Men or Women: Better Manager of Economy

w14a Abortion Justified

Local Government

infrax Police Response Time

np1 Attendance at Municipal Meeting

sd2new2 Satisfaction with Roads

sd3new2 Satisfaction with Public Schools

sd6new2 Satisfaction with Public Medical and Health Services

Possession

Refrigerator in home

Refrigerators are on the rise.

Landline telephone in home

Landlines are on their way out.

Cellular telephone in home

The cell phone market looks like it saturated in about 2010.

Education

Education seems to be improving – there has been a decrease in people with less than five years of education, while the fraction of elementary-school graduates is holding fairly steady and the fraction of high-school graduates is increasing. It would be easy enough to subset this analysis to individual countries or regions.