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WBOPENDATA: Stata module to access World Bank databases

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  • Joao Pedro Azevedo

    (World Bank)

Programming Language

Stata

Abstract

wbopendata draws from the main World Bank collections of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, and made available through the World Bank Open Data Initiative, and presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. Users can chose from one of three of the languages supported by the database, namely, English, Spanish, or French. Three possible downloads options are currently supported: country - all indicators for all years for a single country. topic - all indicators within a specific topic, for all years and all countries. indicator - all years for all countries for a single indicator. Users can also choose to have the data displayed in either the wide or long format (wide is the default option).

Suggested Citation

  • Joao Pedro Azevedo, 2011. "WBOPENDATA: Stata module to access World Bank databases," Statistical Software Components S457234, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 09 Jul 2020.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s457234
    Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install wbopendata". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_populate_list.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_examples.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata.sthlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_indicators.sthlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_incomelevel.sthlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_lendingtype.sthlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_sourceid.sthlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata_topicid.sthlp
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/wbopendata.dlg
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_api_read_indicators.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_api_read.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_countrymetadata.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_tknz.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_update_indicators.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_update_wbopendata.ado
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/world-c.dta
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    File URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/world-d.dta
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    1. Dica de software
      by Erik Figueiredo in Moral Hazard on 2011-06-28 17:00:00

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