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Table 1 Number of posts and political parties in our dataset from each country

From: Estimating ideology and polarization in European countries using Facebook data

Country

Parties

EU Elec. (%)

Posts

Country-PPD

Country-SD

Party-PPD

Party-SD

Austria

5

98.20

14,544

13.270

6.498

2.654

0.708

Belgium

12

97.85

21,494

19.611

8.391

1.634

0.528

Bulgaria

10

91.14

24,261

22.156

12.533

3.315

1.116

Croatia

11

69.08

18,781

17.183

11.494

2.515

0.748

Cyprus

7

84.18

21,329

19.461

13.863

2.780

0.988

Czech Republic

7

88.59

19,674

17.951

9.335

2.564

1.044

Denmark

10

100.00

11,976

10.927

6.933

1.093

0.386

Estonia

6

88.70

12,976

11.839

6.157

1.973

0.254

Finland

9

96.80

18,113

16.526

10.732

1.836

0.667

France

10

90.01

21,345

19.475

12.598

1.948

0.828

Germany

8

85.42

16,883

15.404

7.085

2.290

0.709

Greece

7

73.32

19,498

17.790

10.212

2.541

1.809

Hungary

6

94.78

26,218

23.922

13.293

3.987

1.617

Ireland

8

76.07

11,536

10.526

7.166

1.316

0.667

Italy

7

94.67

42,399

38.685

36.807

5.526

7.304

Latvia

9

96.32

13,359

12.189

9.367

1.354

0.316

Lithuania

10

81.38

9518

9.359

6.162

1.992

0.435

Luxembourg

6

96.21

5144

4.693

3.707

0.782

0.203

Malta

4

94.22

6132

5.595

4.528

1.399

0.908

Netherlands

12

97.54

12,982

11.845

8.639

0.987

0.663

Poland

6

95.70

19,757

18.026

8.606

3.004

1.252

Portugal

8

91.58

27,058

24.688

15.181

3.086

2.591

Romania

8

93.43

22,681

20.694

15.799

2.587

1.273

Slovakia

11

82.37

23,315

21.273

10.024

1.934

0.827

Slovenia

9

93.22

17,415

15.890

9.062

1.766

0.851

Spain

11

91.18

36,006

32.852

29.488

2.987

1.447

Sweden

8

98.27

15,762

14.381

7.940

1.798

1.106

United Kingdom

9

92.50

20,174

18.407

10.900

2.045

0.715

  1. EU Elec is the percentage of votes (2019 EU Elections) those parties (and the parties without a left-right value) obtained in the EU parliament 2019 elections per country. Country-PPD (Country Posts Per Day) represents the average amount of posts published in a country for each day, Country-SD measures its standard deviation. Party-PPD (Party Posts Per Day) is the mean of the PPD calculated for each party, and Party-SD its standard deviation.
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