Using the World Development Indicators Database for Statistical Analysis in Stata

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...

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Published inThe Stata journal Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 30 - 45
Main Author Jeanty, P. Wilner
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sage Publications, Inc 01.03.2010
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1536-867X
1536-8734
DOI:10.1177/1536867X1001000105