COMTRADE: Stata module to download trade data from UN Comtrade using jsonio and parse the output in a user friendly format

Jan Ditzen

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: comtrade simplifies downloading trade data from UN Comtrade. UN Comtrade trade data is available in the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. comtrade uses the user written command jsonio to download the data in the JSON format, it then parses the retrieved data bringing it in into an user friendly format. Bulk as well as API specific downloads are supported. If requested, a log file is created allowing to download only updated data.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14
Keywords: Comtrade; data management; parsing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-24
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install comtrade". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c/comtrade.sthlp help file (text/plain)

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