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6 maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 27 JANuArY 2016 News Continues from page 1 So while all top 20 'least cor- rupt' countries in the CPI had scores based on seven data sources, Malta's was based on four sources, namely the World Economic Forum's ex- ecutive opinion survey (EOS), which is an annual survey of business executives; the Bertelsmann Foundation's sustainable governance indi- cators (SGI) which examine governance and policymaking in all OECD and EU member states in order to evaluate each country's need for, and ability to carry out, reform; the Political Risk Services (PRS) of New York; and the Global Insight country risk ratings which provide assess- ments made by 100 in-house country specialists, who also draw on the expert opinions of in-country freelancers, clients and other contacts. How the CPI is compiled A country or territory's score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). But note that a country's rank indicates its position relative to the other countries in the index. 2015's index includes 168 countries and territories, which is less than those of 2014 (over 170). The final score is aggregated from data from a number of different sources that provide 13% EU & Western Europe Average score 67/100 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX 2015 The 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 168 countries/territories around the world. To see the full results go to: www.transparency.org/cpi #cpi2015 100 very clean 0 highly corrupt Score: of countries score below 50 out of 100 Global Average score 43/100 Country/Territory Score | Global rank Latvia 55/100 | 40/168 Portugal 63/100 | 28/168 Luxembourg 81/100 | 10/168 Bulgaria 41/100 | 69/168 Malta 56/100 | 37/168 France 70/100 | 23/168 Germany 81/100 | 10/168 Italy 44/100 | 61/168 Czech Republic 56/100 | 37/168 Estonia 70/100 | 23/168 Switzerland 86/100 | 7/168 Romania 46/100 | 58/168 Spain 58/100 | 36/168 Ireland 75/100 | 18/168 Norway 87/100 | 5/168 Greece 46/100 | 58/168 Slovenia 60/100 | 35/168 Austria 76/100 | 16/168 Netherlands 87/100 | 5/168 Slovakia 51/100 | 50/168 Lithuania 61/100 | 32/168 Belgium 77/100 | 15/168 Sweden 89/100 | 3/168 Hungary 51/100 | 50/168 Cyprus 61/100 | 32/168 Iceland 79/100 | 13/168 Finland 90/100 | 2/168 Croatia 51/100 | 50/168 Poland 62/100 | 30/168 United Kingdom 81/100 | 10/168 Denmark 91/100 | 1/168 EU & Western Europe malta ranked 20th out of 28 eu member James Debono SWITChERS are more concerned about the environment and cor- ruption than is the general popu- lation – traffic, corruption and the environment top the concerns of respondents who voted PN in 2008 and PL in 2013, according to the latest MaltaToday survey. While unease about traffic among this category is just slightly higher than among the rest of the population, worry about corrup- tion and lack of transparency is six points higher and concern on the state of the environment is seven points higher. The survey indicates that this strategic category of voters is ex- pressing concerns on three ar- eas – traffic, good governance and environment – where the present government is perceived to have so far failed to deliver. Despite mounting concerns on these three issues, the same survey had also shown that Prime Minis- ter Joseph Muscat remains more trusted than opposition leader Simon Busuttil among this cat- egory of voters. While 47% trust Muscat more, Simon Busuttil is more trusted by 25% of switchers. But the survey had also shown 31% of switchers intending to vote PN at the next election, while Labour retains 42%. Concern on immigration and buses is slightly lower among switchers, while concern about in- flation is slightly higher. The environment does not fea- ture among the concerns of re- spondents who are presently undecided on who to vote for or intent on not voting in a forth- coming election. Although corruption features among the six top concerns of these two strategic categories of voters, it is less of a concern than immigration and bread and butter issues like inflation, jobs and low income. In an indication of the order of priorities of these voters, unde- cided voters are more concerned with parking issues than corrup- tion. 30% of this category are ei- ther concerned by inflation or by low income. Non-voters tend to express a Traffic and