Compiled 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 file EN_OECD.ASC contains measures of economy-wide supplies of various measures of capital, labor, and land for eleven OECD countries from 1970 to 1990. The series for some countries do not span this entire range.
The primary data comes from four sources:
1. PWT 5.6: Version 5.6 of the Penn-World Table, available freely from the NBER's website at http://www.nber.org. An earlier version of this data is described in some detail in
Summers, Robert, and Alan Heston, 1991, "The Penn World Table (Mark V): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, 327-368.
2. Barro-Lee: Data on educational attainment, also available freely from the NBER's website at http://www.nber.org. This data is described in
Barro, Robert J., and Jong-Wha Lee, 1993, "International Comparisons of Educational Attainment", NBER Working Paper #4349, April.
3. ILO: various volumes of the annual
Year Book of Labour Statistics, Copyright (c) International Labour Organization.
4. World Resources: Part IV of
WRI Publications, World Resources 1994-1995, Baltimore: World Resources Institute.
All of the above sources cover many other countries besides the ones in this dataset, so you may be able to extend country coverage by going back to the original sources.
IMPORTANT: If you use these data, please cite the original sources above as well as James Harrigan. Most of the work was done by the authors of the original sources. You are also strongly urged to carefuly study the original documentation so that you understand data definitions, construction, and cautions.
Record Layout:
The columns of data are listed as follows, with brief definitions and summary statistics. Detailed definitions follow.
columns 1-3 - country
columns 5-6 - year
columns 8-18 - proftech = % of labor force in ILO category 0/1
columns 20-25 - Population in 000's
columns 27-36 - Durable Goods Capital = workers*kdur*kapw/100
(in 1000's of 1985 $ at international prices)
columns 38-47 - Other Capital = workers*(100-kdur)*kapw/100
(in 1000's of 1985 $ at international prices)
columns 49-59 - workrate = workforce as % of Population
columns 61-71 - workers = Population*workrate/100
columns 73-83 - skilled workers = proftech*workers/100
columns 85-95 - unskilled workers = workers - skilled workers
columns 97-107 - low educ. workers = workers*(no_i+pri_i)/100
columns 109-119 - med. educ. workers = workers*sec_i/100
columns 121-131 - high educ. workers = workers*high_i/100
columns 133-138 - arable land (thousand hectares)
Detailed data descriptions:
1. country three-letter country code:
BEL Belgium
CAN Canada
DNK Denmark
FRA France
GER West Germany
ITA Italy
JPN Japan
NOR Norway
SWE Sweden
UKG United Kingdom
USA United States
2. year two-digits in the range 70-90 (many series end in 1988)
3. proftech Source: ILO. The percentage of the labor force in ILO
occupational categories 0/1, professional, technical and
managerial workers. A large portion of this data is
constructed by interpolating between non-missing
observations or extrapolating back or forward, so it should
be used cautiously if at all. The raw data come from Table
2B of various issues of the ILO Year Book of Labour Statistics.
4. Population Source: PWT 5.6. Population in 1000's.
5. Durable Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 data. Equal to
Goods workers*kdur*kapw/100. kdur is the proportion of the capital
Capital stock which is durable goods, kapw is capital per worker,
and workers is defined below.
The units are 1000's of 1985 $ at international prices.
6. Other Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 data. Equal to
Capital workers*(100-kdur)*kapw/100.
The units are 1000's of 1985 $ at international prices.
7. workrate Source: PWT 5.6. The workforce as a % of Population.
8. workers Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 data.
Equal to Population*workrate/100.
9. skilled Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 and ILO data.
workers Equal to proftech*workers/100.
10. unskilled Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 and ILO data.
workers Equal to workers - skilled workers.
The following three variables use the educational attainment data from
Barro-Lee. Most years are interpolated, so use with caution if at all.
The educational variables are defined as:
no % of population with no schooling
no_i interpolated values of no
pri % of population with at least some primary education; includes
primary school dropouts as well as those who completed primary
school but did not continue to secondary school.
pri_i interpolated values of pri
sec % of population who completed primary school and have at least
some secondary education; includes secondary school dropouts as
well as those who completed secondary school but did not continue
on to higher education.
sec_i interpolated values of sec
high % of population who completed secondary school and have at least
some higher education; includes college dropouts as well as those
who completed a college degree. Also includes graduate school
dropouts and higher-degree holders.
high_i interpolated values of high
11. low ed. Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 and Barro-Lee.
workers Workers with at most some primary education. Equal to
workers*(no + pri_i)/100.
12. med. ed. Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 and Barro-Lee.
workers Workers who have completed primary education and have at
least some secondary education. Equal to workers*sec_i/100
13. high ed. Source: constructed by Harrigan from PWT 5.6 and Barro-
workers Lee. Workers who have completed secondary education and have
at least some higher education. Equal to workers*high_i/100
14. arable Source: World Resources. Arable land, thousands of hectares.
Size: EN_OECD.ASC contains 224 records.
Summary Statistics:
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
---------+-----------------------------------------------------
proftech | 224 15 5 6 32
POP | 224 56327 62863 3877 248231
kdur | 224 219455778 269974307 11959210 1390793023
knresoth | 224 522894887 633762360 33226071 2699774693
workrate | 224 47 6 37 63
workers | 224 27556 31803 1605 121863
skilled | 224 3528 4233 197 19011
unskilld | 224 24028 27802 1408 102852
lowedw | 224 11410 10678 35 40682
mededw | 224 11445 18152 380 73678
highedw | 224 4707 8701 94 39289
arable | 224 25573 52203 790 188755