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NBER-UN Trade Data 1962-2000 - Download from CID at UC Davis VS Here #219

Open nhaho415 opened 6 years ago

nhaho415 commented 6 years ago

Hi, I originally had the World Flows data downloaded from the Center for International Data at UC Davis http://cid.econ.ucdavis.edu/nberus.html

and recently downloaded the bulk dataset from OEC, which is fantastic to have.

I've noticed that some of the observations are different. For example, from the UCD data:

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but from the OEC data

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I was wondering if the OEC did some cleaning or harmonizing with the COMTRADE data, which might have affected the earlier years? Or since the UCD data is in nominal terms, OEC put the data in real terms? If so, what was the base year used?

Please let me know when possible. Thank you. I really appreciate having this website up.