pwt9: Penn World Tables 9.0

In cmann3/recon: Useful Functions for Economists

Description

A dataset containing data from the Penn World Tables version 9.0. It includes data from 178 countries. This is not the complete PWT. Observations are only included if they contain data on Real GDP, capital stock, and employment. Furthermore, only 16 variables are included. More info about the variables are included in the attributes.

Usage

pwt9

Format

A data frame with 8244 rows and 16 variables:

code

3-letter ISO country code

year

Year

pop

Population

emp

Labor Force

hours

Average Annual Hours of Labor Force

hc

Human Capital Index

gdp

Real GDP at Constant 2011 National Prices

k

Capital Stock at Constant 2011 National Prices

tfp

TFP at Constant National Prices (2011=1)

labsh

Share of Labour Compensation in GDP at Current Nat. Prices

delta

Average Depreciation Rate of the Capital Stock

shC

Share of Household Consumption at current PPPs

shI

Share of Gross Capital Formation at current PPPs

shG

Share of Government Consumption at current PPPs

shX

Share of Merchandise Exports at current PPPs

shM

Share of Merchandise Imports at current PPPs

Source

http://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/

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