The author calculated the final score for all of the indicators, dimensions, and overall set of indicators.
Certain indicators are
compared of simple averages of sub
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indicators that capture several qualitative
aspects of the given opportunity or obstacle (e.g. one type of promotional measure, documentation for
a specific requirement, strength of judicial review). The individual indica
tor scores are averaged
together into one dimension in order to capture one aspect of implementation (i.e. promotion,
documentation, discretion, bureaucracy, and review). The score for the dimension captures the overall
pattern of strength (opportunities)
or weakness (obstacles) of the given aspect of implementation (i.e.
generally strong promotional measures, facilitated documentation, limited discretion, limited
bureaucracy, strong review). Procedures that score closer to 0 on one of the five dimensions i
nvolve
respectively little promotion, difficult documentation, wide discretion, greater bureaucracy, and/or
weak review. Procedures that score closer to 1 on one of the five dimensions involve respectively
greater promotion, easier documentation, less disc
retion, less bureaucracy, and/or stronger review. A
simple average is then taken of the five dimensions to calculate a score for the procedure. This overall
CITIMP score captures the overall pattern of opportunities or obstacles in a country’s ordinary
nat
uralisation procedure. Using a 0 to 1 scale for all indicators, countries with scores closer to 1 create
fewer obstacles in the procedures implementing the naturalisation law. Countries with scores closer to
0 create more obstacles in the implementation of
the naturalisation law.