I have the Corruption perception index as a control variable in my study and i'm not sure what i have use the score or the rank of the country ? please advice what i have to use in the data entry and how .
If you put in a score, you can create a rank.. But the real question is why, what is the purpose? Ranked data have less information as the difference in rank does not fully inform on the size of the difference, unless perfectly uniform distribution; unlikely with your index, I would have thought - positive skew. So why do you want to throw away hard-won information ?