FREEDOM INDEX

PERSONAL FREEDOM INDEX

BASIC FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates basic or universal rights

ECONOMIC FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates the ability of members of a society to undertake economic actions

CONSUPTION FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates the freedom to produce, commerce and consume goods.

LIBERTY OVER YOUR OWN BODY

This sub-index indicates the freedom regard the right to control one’s own body.

RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates the freedom (or lack of interference of the estate) in sexual matters and human relations or interactions.

Basic Freedom

Freedom of Movement

liberty to move freely inside or outside the country regardless the sex of person.

Freedom of Self Defense

Measures the right of selfdefense or the right for persons to use reasonable force or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one’s own life or the lives of others.

Religious Freedom

Measures the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It also includes the freedom to change one’s religion or belief.

Demonstration and Meeting Freedom

Measures the freedom and individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their ideas.

Freedom of Speech

Measures people freedom to display opinions and ideas without government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. It includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Economic Freedom

Fiscal Freedom

We define the Fiscal Freedom Index, Lfiscal, as the total government expenditures, in order to measure this index; it takes into account the federal expendidures plus states plus local expendidures.

Freedom to Starting a Business

This topic measures the paid-in minimum capital requirement, number of procedures, time and cost for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate.

Labor Freedom

The Labor Freedom Index Labor, measures the restriction to define the price and conditions in a labor contract.

Freedom to Trade

Freedom to trade index, is provided by Doing Business, it records the time and cost associated with the logistical process of exporting and importing goods, measures the time and cost (excluding tariffs) associated with three sets of procedures— documentary compliance, border compliance and domestic transport .

Liberty of Money

This topic measures the purchasing power of money controlled by central banks, we use the inflation CPI index of the WorldBank,if there is not central bank, this index is equal to 100, because there is a scheme of free banking.

Consumption Freedom

Freedom to Consume Tabacco

Tobacco is globally permitted, but the FPE interprets taxation as an indirect prohibition.

Freedom to Consume Alcohol

Freedom to consume alcohol without government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. Alcohol is not globally permitted, but also in this case the FPE interprets taxation as an indirect prohibition.

Freedom to Consume Drugs

To consume drugs without government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. Freedom is rewarded with the same scale and values than Free Existence Index from  Worldwide Drug Freedom (Scale 0-10)

Liberty over your own body

Abortion Freedom

Freedom to perform or engage an abortion or ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus.

Euthanasia Freedom

Measures the regulation of Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide, the criteria is the patient must be suffering unbearable pain, their illness must be incurable, and the demand must be made in “full consciousness” by the patient.

Relationship and sexual freedom

Sexual Preference Freedom

Liberty to have sexual relations with people of the same sex. It only has two states of one subject. Legality is awarded with 10 points, illegality is awarded with 0 points.

Prostitution Freedom

Freedom to perform or engage sexual intercourse for money and freedom to do a voluntary association formed and organized to carry on a business based on prostitution.

Adultery Freedom

Liberty to have sexual relations outside marriage. It only has two states of one subject. Legality is awarded with 10 points, illegality is awarded with 0 points to 3 points depending in the punishment.

PERSONAL FREEDOM INDEX

BASIC FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates basic or universal rights

ECONOMIC FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates the ability of members of a society to undertake economic actions

CONSUPTION FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates the freedom to produce, commerce and consume goods.

LIBERTY OVER YOUR OWN BODY

This sub-index indicates the freedom regard the right to control one’s own body.

RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUAL FREEDOM

This sub-index indicates the freedom (or lack of interference of the estate) in sexual matters and human relations or interactions.

Basic Freedoms

Freedom of Movement

Liberty to move freely inside or outside the country regardless the sex of person

Freedom of Self Defense

Measures the right of selfdefense or the right for persons to use reasonable force or defensive force, for the purpose of defending one’s own life or the lives of others.

Religious Freedom

Measures the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. It also includes the freedom to change one’s religion or belief.

Demonstration and Meeting Freedom

Measures the freedom and individual right or ability of people to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue, and defend their ideas.

Freedom of Speech

Measures people freedom to display opinions and ideas without government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. It includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Economic Freedom

Fiscal Freedom

We define the Fiscal Freedom Index, Lfiscal, as the total government expenditures, in order to measure this index; it takes into account the federal expendidures plus states plus local expendidures.

Freedom to Starting a Business

This topic measures the paid-in minimum capital requirement, number of procedures, time and cost for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate.

Labor Freedom

The Labor Freedom Index Labor, measures the restriction to define the price and conditions in a labor contract.

Freedom to Trade

Freedom to trade index, is provided by Doing Business, it records the time and cost associated with the logistical process of exporting and importing goods, measures the time and cost (excluding tariffs) associated with three sets of procedures— documentary compliance, border compliance and domestic transport .

Consumption Freedom

Freedom to Consume Tabacco

Tobacco is globally permitted, but the FPE interprets taxation as an indirect prohibition.

Freedom to Consume Alcohol

Freedom to consume alcohol without government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. Alcohol is not globally permitted, but also in this case the FPE interprets taxation as an indirect prohibition.

Freedom to Consume Drugs

To consume drugs without government retaliation or censorship, or societal sanction. Freedom is rewarded with the same scale and values than Free Existence Index from  Worldwide Drug Freedom (Scale 0-10)

Liberty over your own body

Abortion Freedom

Freedom to perform or engage an abortion or ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus.

Euthanasia Freedom

Measures the regulation of Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide, the criteria is the patient must be suffering unbearable pain, their illness must be incurable, and the demand must be made in “full consciousness” by the patient.

Relationship and sexual freedom

Sexual Preference Freedom

Liberty to have sexual relations with people of the same sex. It only has two states of one subject. Legality is awarded with 10 points, illegality is awarded with 0 points.

Prostitution Freedom

Freedom to perform or engage sexual intercourse for money and freedom to do a voluntary association formed and organized to carry on a business based on prostitution.

Adultery Freedom

Liberty to have sexual relations outside marriage. It only has two states of one subject. Legality is awarded with 10 points, illegality is awarded with 0 points to 3 points depending in the punishment.

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