builddata: U.S. Military overseas construction spending data

Description Usage Format Value

Description

builddata returns a data frame containing geocoded location-project-year overseas military construction spending data.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with country-base observations including the following variables:

countryname

A character vector of country names.

ccode

A numeric vector of Correlates of War country codes.

year

Year of observed country-year spending.

iso3c

A character vector of ISO three character country codes.

location

Name of the facility where spending occurred, or host country where detailed facility information is unavailable.

spend_construction

Total obligational authority associated with the observed location-year in thousands of current US dollars.

lat

The facility's latitude.

lon

The facility's longitude.

Value

Returns the full data frame containing location-project-year observations of U.S. military construction spending data from 2008-2019.


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