penn_world_table: Penn World Table 9.0

In Reckziegel/ggdcr: Downloads data from the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC)

Description

Downloads the data of PWT 9.0 that has been released on June 9 2016, as available at www.ggdc.net/pwt.

Usage

penn_world_table()

Details

Penn World Table (PWT) version 9.0 is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014.

Different indicators are grouped in the column key and are deffined as follows:

Real GDP, employment and population levels

• rgdpe: Expenditure-side real GDP at chained PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• rgdpo: Output-side real GDP at chained PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• pop: Population (in millions)

• emp: Number of persons engaged (in millions)

• avh: Average annual hours worked by persons engaged

• hc: Human capital index, based on years of schooling and returns to education

Current price GDP, capital and TFP

• ccon: Real consumption of households and government, at current PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• cda: Real domestic absorption, (real consumption plus investment), at current PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• cgdpe: Expenditure-side real GDP at current PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• cgdpo: Output-side real GDP at current PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• ck: Capital stock at current PPPs (in mil. 2011US$)

• ctfp: TFP level at current PPPs (USA=1)

• cwtfp: Welfare-relevant TFP levels at current PPPs (USA=1)

National Accounts-Based Variables

• rgdpna: Real GDP at constant 2011 national prices (in mil. 2011US$)

• rconna: Real consumption at constant 2011 national prices (in mil. 2011US$)

• rdana: Real domestic absorption at constant 2011 national prices (in mil. 2011US$)

• rkna: Capital stock at constant 2011 national prices (in mil. 2011US$)

• rtfpna: TFP at constant national prices (2011=1)

• rwtfpna:Welfare-relevant TFP at constant national prices (2011=1)

• labsh: Welfare-relevant TFP at constant national prices (2011=1)

• delta: Average depreciation rate of the capital stock

Exchange rates and GDP price levels

• xr: Exchange rate, national currency/USD (market+estimated)

• pl_con: Price level of CCON (PPP/XR), price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_da: Price level of CDA (PPP/XR), price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_gdpo: Price level of CGDPo (PPP/XR), price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

Shares in CGDPo

• csh_c: Share of household consumption at current PPPs

• csh_i: Share of gross capital formation at current PPPs

• csh_g: Share of government consumption at current PPPs

• csh_x: Share of merchandise exports at current PPPs

• csh_m: Share of merchandise imports at current PPPs

• csh_r: Share of residual trade and GDP statistical discrepancy at current PPPs

Price levels, expenditure categories and capital

• pl_c: Price level of household consumption, price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_i: Price level of capital formation, price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_g: Price level of government consumption, price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_x: Price level of exports, price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_m: Price level of imports, price level of USA GDPo in 2011=1

• pl_k: Price level of the capital stock, price level of USA in 2011=1

Value

A tidy tibble.

References

Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2015), "The Next Generation of the Penn World Table", American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150-3182, available for download at www.ggdc.net/pwt.

Examples

library(ggdcr)
penn_world_table()

Reckziegel/ggdcr documentation built on May 7, 2019, 10:44 p.m.