| Trade and Production, 1976-99 * (2007) | |||||||||||||
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| This paper is a companion to the database in the Trade and Production CD-ROM. The database contains trade, production and tariff data for 67 developing and developed countries at the industry level over the period 1976-1999. The sector disaggregation in the database follows the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) and is provided at the 3 digit level (28 industries) for 67 countries and at the 4 digit level (81 industries) for 24 of these countries. The sources of the production data are the CD-ROM versions of UNIDO’s Industrial Statistics Database at the 3 and 4 digit level of the ISIC classifications. It includes data on value added, total output, average wages, capital formation, number of employees, number of female employees, and number of firms. The source of the trade data is United Nations Statistics Department’s Comtrade database (through World Bank’s World Integrated Trade Solultion (WITS) software) and it includes imports, exports. Mirror exports (reported by other trading partners) were obtained using WITS. Trade data is aggregated by region and income levels according to World Bank’s definitions. A separate dataset is provided as well that includes bilateral trade flows (by partner) at the industry level. The sources of MFN average tariffs are UNCTAD’s Trains database and WTO’s Trade Policy Reviews and Integrated Data Base (IDB). An input-output table using data from GTAP 4 is also provided for each country. The database is available on CD-ROM in a series of ASCII files and Microsoft Excel worksheets. ∗ This paper accompanies the Trade and Production Database which is available at www.worldbank.org/research/trade or on request in electronic format (CD-ROM). The database is provided on an "as is " basis. The construction of this database has been funded by the World Bank’s Research Support Budget and | |||||||||||||
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