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update data sources #199

Open pachadotdev opened 6 years ago

pachadotdev commented 6 years ago

https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/resources/data/

this:

For historical SITC classification data (1962 - 2000), we use data from The Center for International Data from Robert Feenstra1. For more recent data (2001 - 2014), we use data provided by UN COMTRADE.

For all of the HS data used throughout the site (1995 - 2014) we use the BACI International Trade Database2. The original data comes from the United Nations Statistical Division (COMTRADE), but is cleaned by the BACI team using their own methodology of harmonization.

should be updated to:

For historical SITC classification data (1962 - 2000), we use data from The Center for International Data from Robert Feenstra1. For more recent data (2001 - 2016), we use data provided by UN COMTRADE.