Where did the original data come from?

TheEconomist / big-mac-data

Data and methodology for the Big Mac index

https://www.economist.com/bigmac

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Where did the original data come from? #3

Closed ncclementi closed 5 years ago

ncclementi commented 5 years ago

This repo is great, I might use some of the data to teach a class.

I have a quick question, where did the original data come from? In other words how did you obtain the big-mac-source-data.csv file.

Thanks

futuraprime commented 5 years ago

We're glad you like it! Please let us know if you use the data in your teaching.

The sources are listed in our codebook. Specifically: the Big Mac prices are from McDonalds and from our own reporting, exchange rates are from Reuters, and GDP data is from the IMF. (Everything else is calculated from these data.)