Closed FlorianLeblancDr closed 2 months ago
Seems good to be merged @danielhuppmann
Thank you Daniel for reviewing this.
Thank you @IAMconsortium/common-definitions-macro-economy for putting together this PR.
Two suggestions before merging, to ensure the long-term viability of the common-definitions variable template: this PR adds quite a few top-level variables (or categories). In order to keep the number of top-level variables small, how about the following:
1. make Employment and Unemployment sub-categories of Population (similar to Population|Urban vs. Population|Rural).
I am ok with this. Even though Employment + Unemployment does not equal total population, but this is a matter of appropriate definition. Olivier and Laurent, if you agree I will push the changes.
2. make Import and Export sub-categories of Trade and add `[Value]` for disambiguation, so have * Trade|Import [Value] * Trade|Export [Value] and then later add * Trade|Primary Energy|Biomass [Volume] * ..
This is a good idea. I am less sure about this one as I was going to suggest a GDP decomposition as tier 2 variables : Export and Import in values being component of GDP decomposition. But in this case this would be : GDP|"Production side" of something else|Export
I will think about it. Or we can apply your suggestion and revert it in an upcoming PR.
This is something we can discuss during a zoom meeting within the sub-group.
@FlorianLeblancDr, you mentioned that you will have a Zoom meeting in the sub-group - did you already have a chance to discuss this further?
Thanks @danielhuppmann for the reminder. The zoom was a suggestion but we did not plan it.
I will commit a change for Employment and follow your suggestion Trade, which will help to close the PR faster.
Then leave a discussion on GDP composition for later.
Thanks @FlorianLeblancDr. Agree on your point about population and employment being not quite ideal. How about “Labour Market|Employment” as a new top-level category?
ping @FlorianLeblancDr - can we move this forward and merge soon?
@danielhuppmann Yes sorry I got busy.
This seems good now :
Thank you!
I'm not sure whether this list is helpful...
There are too many different categories mixed together...
Can I again suggest to use Labour Force|Employed
vs. Labour Force|Unemployed
(plus breakdowns by education later) instead?
Sure, I am kind of agnostic at this point, I was trying to follow your initial suggestion to move it in Population. I got your point : Population defines what people are (by age, sex, education) not what they do.
I find it useful to have the "Not Active" in the tag, in order to suggest, besides definitions, that the sum of Employment + Unemployment is not equal to total population.. even though "Labor Force|Not Active" is a little strange. "Pop. Activity" could include all.
Feel free to follow your intuition and merge.
I open a new pull-request with only Tier 1 variables. I found it easier for @IAMconsortium/common-definitions-macro-economy to follow discussions and agree with PR with manageable size (working with small subset of variables and from the same tier).
Open to review for @IAMconsortium/common-definitions-macro-economy
@orichters thank for your work with #56 being usefull for the Tier 2 & 3 as well.