gen_gcp_qual: Generate gcp_qual variable

In prio-data/priogrid: PRIOGrid Replication Code

Description

Indicates the quality of the GCP values, based on the G-Econ dataset v4.0, last modified May 2011. Quality is a measure of the quality of the economic data. Quality = 1 for countries for which the data are consistent, but it does not capture the quality of the underlying country statistics. In general, quality < 1 indicates that there are major inconsistencies in one of the underlying data inputs into GCP. See the G-Econ definition table, available at http://gecon.yale.edu/.

Usage

gen_gcp_qual(input_folder, interpolate_missing = TRUE)

Arguments

input_folder	path to [pg-folder].
interpolate_missing	if 'TRUE', interpolates data to grid cells with missing values around coastline.

Details

Link to original data: https://gecon.yale.edu/.

Please cite: Nordhaus, William D. (2006) Geography and macroeconomics: New data and new findings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 103(10): 3510-3517.

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