Contributed by: James Harrigan
International Research
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045
e-mail: james.harrigan@frbny.sprint.com
Description:
The files COMPROD.ASC, COMM_*.ASC, and COMX_*.ASC contain production, import and export data for manufactured goods from 22 OECD countries (denoted by *, and listed below) over the years 1970-1985. The trade data are bilateral imports and exports between the 22 countries and each of their partners (using the UN country codes found in COUNTRY.TXT). These data were collected under the COMTAP (Compatible Trade and Production Database) project of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and are included here with the permission of that agency. Both the production and trade data are organized according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), where manufactured goods begin with the digit 3, and the one-digit up to four-digit classifications are reported in the files.
It should be noted that the COMTAP trade data contains some missing values, which can appear as an import or export value of zero. For example, there are zero imports listed by the U.S. from Taiwan in 1972 in all ISIC categories within the COMTAP data, whereas in fact, imports occurred in that year. The prevelance of such missing values is unknown.
This data can be referenced to the OECD and any of the following papers:
Harrigan, James, 1996, "Openness to Trade in Manufactures in the OECD", Journal of International Economics, 40(1/2), February, 23-40.
Harrigan, James, 1995, "Factor Endowments & The International Location of Production: Econometric Evidence for the OECD, 1970-1985", Journal of International Economics, 39 (1/2), August, 123-141.
Harrigan, James, 1995,"The Volume of Trade in Differentiated Intermediate Goods: Theory and Evidence", The Review of Economics and Statistics, 77(2), May, 283-293.
Harrigan, James, 1993, "OECD Imports and Trade Barriers in 1983", Journal of International Economics, 35(1/2), August, 95-111.
OECD Country List:
The COMM_*.ASC and COMX_*.ASC files use the following 22 country abbrevations for *:
Australia (AUS), Austria (AUT), Belgium-Luxembourg (BLX), Denmark (DNK), Canada (CAN), Finland (FIN), France (FRA), Greece (GRC), Ireland (IRE), West Germany (GER), Italy (ITA), Japan (JPN), New Zealand (NZL), The Netherlands (NTH), Norway (NOR), Portugal (PRT), Spain (SPN), Sweden (SWE), Turkey (TKY), United Kingdom (UKG), United States (USA), Yugoslavia (YUG).
The COMPROD.ASC file contains information on these 22 OECD countries, using the same three-digit abbrevations in that file.
Within the COMM_*.ASC and COMX_*.ASC files, the country codes used are the United Nations codes, provided in COUNTRY.TXT.
ISIC Codes:
Thirteen countries have production data at the 4-digit ISIC level. These are: Australia (AUS), Belgium (BLX), Canada (CAN), Finland (FIN), France (FRA), West Germany (GER), Italy (ITA), Japan (JPN), The Netherlands (NTH), Norway (NOR),Sweden (SWE), United Kingdom (UKG), and United States (USA). The remaining countries have data at the 3-digit ISIC level.
Within the COMPROD.ASC, COMM_*.ASC and COMX_*.ASC files, ISIC codes less than four digits have a hyphen appended to the end. For example, the total of manufacturing goods is indicated by ISIC code "3---". The complete list of 4-digit codes and the associated industries are provided in ISIC.TXT.
Record Layout for COMPROD.ASC:
Each record contains the following data: columns 1-3 - Country code (OECD only, see list above) columns 5-8 - ISIC code (1, 2, 3 or 4 digit ISIC code, ISIC.TXT) columns 10-21 - Gross output in thousands of current US dollars columns 23-24 - Year (two-digit code from 70-85) Size: COMPROD.ASC contains 30229 records.
Record Layout for COMM_*.ASC:
In this file, the importing country has reported the trade data. Each record contains the following information: columns 1-6 - Importing country code (see COUNTRY.TXT) columns 8-11 - ISIC code (see ISIC.TXT) columns 13-18 - Exporting country code (see COUNTRY.TXT) columns 20-21 - Year(the number 70) columns 23-32 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1970 columns 34-35 - Year(the number 71) columns 37-46 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1971 columns 48-49 - Year(the number 72) columns 51-60 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1972 columns 62-63 - Year(the number 73) columns 65-74 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1973 columns 76-77 - Year(the number 74) columns 79-88 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1974 columns 90-91 - Year(the number 75) columns 93-102 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1975 columns 104-105 - Year(the number 76) columns 107-116 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1976 columns 118-119 - Year(the number 77) columns 121-130 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1977 columns 132-133 - Year(the number 78) columns 135-144 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1978 columns 146-147 - Year(the number 79) columns 149-158 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1979 columns 160-161 - Year(the number 80) columns 163-172 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1980 columns 174-175 - Year(the number 81) columns 177-186 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1981 columns 188-189 - Year(the number 82) columns 191-200 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1982 columns 202-203 - Year(the number 83) columns 205-214 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1983 columns 216-217 - Year(the number 84) columns 219-228 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1984 columns 230-231 - Year(the number 85) columns 233-242 - Imports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1985 Size: Each file COMM_*.ASC is between 2 and 4 megabytes.
Record Layout for COMX_*.ASC:
In this file, the exporting country has reported the trade data. Each record contains the following information: columns 1-6 - Exporting country code (see COUNTRY.TXT) columns 8-11 - ISIC code (see ISIC.TXT) columns 13-18 - Importing country code (see COUNTRY.TXT) columns 20-21 - Year(the number 70) columns 23-32 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1970 columns 34-35 - Year(the number 71) columns 37-46 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1971 columns 48-49 - Year(the number 72) columns 51-60 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1972 columns 62-63 - Year(the number 73) columns 65-74 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1973 columns 76-77 - Year(the number 74) columns 79-88 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1974 columns 90-91 - Year(the number 75) columns 93-102 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1975 columns 104-105 - Year(the number 76) columns 107-116 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1976 columns 118-119 - Year(the number 77) columns 121-130 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1977 columns 132-133 - Year(the number 78) columns 135-144 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1978 columns 146-147 - Year(the number 79) columns 149-158 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1979 columns 160-161 - Year(the number 80) columns 163-172 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1980 columns 174-175 - Year(the number 81) columns 177-186 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1981 columns 188-189 - Year(the number 82) columns 191-200 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1982 columns 202-203 - Year(the number 83) columns 205-214 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1983 columns 216-217 - Year(the number 84) columns 219-228 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1984 columns 230-231 - Year(the number 85) columns 233-242 - Exports in thousands of U.S. dollars, 1985 Size: Each file COMX_*.ASC is between 2 and 5 megabytes.