Alexandre Afonso

Alexandre Afonso

Leiden University

Dataset on Social Dialogue in European Countries

Authors: Alexandre Afonso, Maximilian Kiecker, Pedro Goulart

This page provides access to the dataset compiled for our article, “Determinants of Social Dialogue in European Countries (1980–2018).” The dataset offers a quantitative assessment of social dialogue across 25 European countries for the period from 1980 to 2018. The primary variable is a social dialogue indicator based on a comprehensive expert survey we conducted.

Citation

We are happy to make this data openly available for research. If you use this dataset in your work, we kindly ask that you cite the original article:

Afonso, A., Kiecker, M., & Goulart, P. (2025). Determinants of Social Dialogue in European Countries (1980–2018). British Journal of Industrial Relations, 63, 341–353.

When using independent and control variables, please also remember to cite the original sources: the ICTWSS dataset (Visser, 2019) and the CPDS dataset (Armingeon et al., 2020), as detailed in the codebook.

Downloads & Resources

You can access all the relevant files via the links below. The data is available in a format ready for use in statistical software like Stata or R.

About the Dataset

  • Period Covered: 1980–2018
  • Countries Included: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
  • Unit of Analysis: Country-years
  • Core Variable: The dataset’s main dependent variable measures social dialogue on a four-point scale, from “No involvement” to “Corporatist compromise,” based on an original expert survey of 109 national experts. For a full description of all variables, please consult the codebook included with the dataset files.