mirrorNonReporters: Mirror non-reporting and incomplete countries.

View source: R/mirrorNonReporters.R

mirrorNonReportersR Documentation

Mirror non-reporting and incomplete countries.

Description

Use mirror trade flows for imputing trade data for non-reporting countries and for countries that do not report a flow.

Usage

mirrorNonReporters(tradedata = NA, mirror = NA)

Arguments

tradedata

Trade data.

mirror

data.frame containing the code of the area and the flow that should be mirrored.

Details

For non-reporting and incomplete countries exports of reporters will become their imports, and vice versa. In order to take into account the different international shipping costs, a CIF (Cost, Insurance, Freight) / FOB (Free On Board) correction is done. Currently, the CIF/FOB correction is set at 12 values of reporters' exports).

Value

tradedata with mirrored data for non-reporters added.


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