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Anomaly in Ireland to Egypt 2016 packaged medicament data #187

Open adamodesh opened 7 years ago

adamodesh commented 7 years ago

Hello

Thanks for your cool and insightful service.

While browsing Irish exports of packaged medicaments to Egypt I noticed an anomaly in the data. Here http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/irl/show/3004/2016/ the size of the export last year is given as $42m. But here http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/import/egy/show/3004/2016/ the size of the corresponding import is given as $6.42m.

Can you please tell me whether I am correct in thinking there is a mistake here or am I misunderstanding something? Should they not be the same figure?

Many thanks

Adam

adamodesh commented 6 years ago

Anybody out there?

alexandersimoes commented 6 years ago

I'm not sure I understand exactly.

In those 2 links you posted, I see Egypt receiving $16.9 M in packaged medicaments from Ireland.

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And looking at this same data cut as a function of Egypt's imports FROM Ireland I see the same value $16.9M.

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adamodesh commented 6 years ago

Hi Alexander!

So great to hear from you. How's it going?

Thanks again for creating this resource—it's really cool.

You are correct—the numbers tally correctly. This is strange. I have looked at mistakes I may have made in reading those numbers and I can't figure out what it is. I was writing a report on packaged medicaments last October and I have just looked back on it and many of my numbers, across several countries seem to be wrong against the OEC entries. Would the data for 2016 have changed since last October?

On a separate but related note, I am currently in Tunisia doing a project on North African economies. Could I ask you a couple of questions on researching trade ? You would be helping me immensely in understanding these economies.

We can link up on Facebook (Adam Eshahawi) or I can post the questions here if you prefer?

Thanks!

Adam