Accessing World Development Indicators 2003 with Stata
The WDI 2003 dataset may also be accessed with Stata over the web (within the BC network).
Please contact Research Services if you need a copy of Stata for your computer.
There are three Stata binary datasets:
- wdicty : contains country codes, names, and record count of available data
use http://econ.bc.edu/wb/wdicty.dta
- wdiser: contains series codes, names, and record count of available countries
use http://econ.bc.edu/wb/wdiser.dta
- wdi2003: the data themselves
copy http://econ.bc.edu/wb/wdi2003.dta wdi2003.dta
In the wdi2003 datafile, each record contains four identifiers:
- obsnr: series number, 1-575
- sercode: series code
- ctycode: three-letter country (or group) code
- year: four-digit year
and the data value, as a double. To work with these data (which are in the 'long-long' form,
in Stata terminology) the program wdidata.do may be useful.
Warning: this is a large file, with 2.047 million records. At least 100 Mb of memory
(set mem 100m) is needed to access the data with Stata.
Please contact your GSA for assistance with this interface.
Last updated: 08 Oct 2003