Correlates of War Dyadic Trade Data Set (v. 4.0)

Source: R/data.R

These are dyad-year-level data for national trade from the Correlates of War project.

cow_trade_ndy

Format

A data frame with 673654 observations on the following seven variables.

ccode1

a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code for the first state

ccode2

a numeric vector for the Correlates of War state code for the second state

year

the year

flow1

imports of ccode1 from ccode2, in current million USD

flow2

imports of ccode2 from ccode1, in current million USD

smoothflow1

smoothed flow1 values

smoothflow2

smoothed flow2 values

Details

The data-raw directory on the project's Github shows how the data were processed.

References

Barbieri, Katherine and Omar M.G. Keshk. 2016. Correlates of War Project Trade Data Set Codebook, Version 4.0. Online: https://correlatesofwar.org

Barbieri, Katherine, Omar M.G. Keshk, and Brian Pollins. 2009. "TRADING DATA: Evaluating Our Assumptions and Coding Rules." Conflict Management and Peace Science, 26(5): 471-491.