kountry: A Stata utility for merging cross-country data from multiple sources

Rafal Raciborski ()

Stata Journal, 2008, vol. 8, issue 3, pages 390-400

Abstract: This article describes kountry, a data-management command that can be used to translate one country-coding scheme into another, to recode country names into a "standardized form", and to generate geographic-region variables. Users can build a custom dictionary through a helper command, kountryadd, that "teaches" kountry new name variations. The dictionary can be protected from an accidental overwriting through two helper commands: kountrybackup and kountryrestore. Copyright 2008 by StataCorp LP.

Keywords: kountry; kountryadd; kountrybackup; kountryrestore; country names; country-coding schemes; geographical; region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008

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