codelist: Country Code Translation Data Frame (Cross-Sectional)
In altaf-ali/countrycode_gw: Convert Country Names and Country Codes

A data frame used internally by the countrycode() function. 'countrycode' can use any valid code as destination, but only some codes can be used as origin.

data frame with codes as columns

Origin and Destination:

country.name: country name (English)
country.name.de: country name (German)
cowc: Correlates of War character
cown: Correlates of War numeric
ecb: European Central Bank
eurostat: Eurostat
fao: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations numerical code
fips: FIPS 10-4 (Federal Information Processing Standard)
gaul: Global Administrative Unit Layers
genc2c: GENC 2-letter code
genc3c: GENC 3-letter code
genc3n: GENC numeric code
imf: International Monetary Fund
ioc: International Olympic Committee
iso2c: ISO-2 character
iso3c: ISO-3 character
iso2n: ISO-2 numeric
iso3n: ISO-3 numeric
p4n: Polity IV numeric country code
p4c: Polity IV character country code
un: United Nations M49 numeric codes
unpd: United Nations Procurement Division
vdem: Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem version 8, April 2018)
wb: World Bank (very similar but not identical to iso3c)
wvs: World Values Survey numeric code

Destination only:

ar5: IPCC's regional mapping used both in the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and for the Reference Concentration Pathways (RCP)
continent: Continent as defined in the World Bank Development Indicators
cow.name: Correlates of War country name
ecb.name: European Central Bank country name
eurocontrol_pru: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
eurocontrol_statfor: European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
eurostat.name: Eurostat country name
eu28: Member states of the European Union (as of December 2015), without special territories
fao.name: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations country name
fips.name: FIPS 10-4 Country name
genc.name: Geopolitical Entities, Names and Codes standard country names
icao: International Civil Aviation Organization
icao_region: International Civil Aviation Organization (Region)
ioc.name: International Olympic Committee country name
iso.name.en: ISO English short name
iso.name.fr: ISO French short name
p4.name: Polity IV country name
region: Regions as defined in the World Bank Development Indicators
un.name.ar: United Nations Arabic country name
un.name.en: United Nations English country name
un.name.es: United Nations Spanish country name
un.name.fr: United Nations French country name
un.name.ru: United Nations Russian country name
un.name.zh: United Nations Chinese country name
unpd.name: United Nations Procurement Division country name
wvs.name: World Values Survey numeric code country name
cldr.*: 622 country name variants from the UNICODE CLDR project. Inspect the 'countrycode::cldr_examples' data.frame for a full list of available country names and examples.

The Correlates of War (cow) and Polity 4 (p4) project produce codes in country year format. Some countries go through political transitions that justify changing codes over time. When building a purely cross-sectional conversion dictionary, this forces us to make arbitrary choices with respect to some entities (e.g., Western Germany, Vietnam, Serbia). 'countrycode' includes a reconciled dataset in panel format: 'countrycode::countrycode_panel'. Instead of converting code, we recommend that users dealing with panel data "left-merge" their data into this panel dictionary.

altaf-ali/countrycode_gw documentation built on May 15, 2019, 9:59 p.m.