Using the world development indicators database for statistical analysis in Stata

P. Wilner Jeanty ()

Stata Journal, 2010, vol. 10, issue 1, 30-45

Abstract: The World Bank’s world development indicators (WDI) compilation is a rich and widely used database about the development of most economies in the world. However, after insheeting a WDI dataset, some data management is required prior to performing statistical analysis. In this article, I propose a new Stata command, wdireshape, for automating this data management. While reshaping a WDI dataset into structures amenable to panel data, seeming unrelated regression, or cross-sectional modeling, wdireshape renames the series and places the series descriptors into variable labels. Copyright 2010 by StataCorp LP.

Keywords: wdireshape; paverage; world development indicators; reshape; panel data; seeming unrelated regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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