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Coffee Imports for Select Importing Countries
Description
A simple panel on coffee imports for importing countries.
Usage
coffee_imports
Format
A data frame with 4530 observations on the following 4 variables.
countrya character vector for the country
membera numeric vector indicating whether the importer is or is not a member of the International Coffee Organization
yeara numeric vector for the year
valuea numeric vector for the coffee imports for all select importing countries (in thousand 60-kg bags)
Details
Data come from the International Coffee Organization, of which I feel I should be a member.
Observations for the People's Republic of China are removed because those can be obtained by adding together the values for "Macao", "Hong Kong", and "China (Mainland)".
The user may want to be mindful about when 0s in the value data are actually communicating that the entry did not exist at the time, or no longer exists. For example, there is no independent Armenia in 1990 (and whatever imports Armenia had are lumped into the USSR value for 1990). Likewise, the 0s for the USSR in 1992 are communicating the USSR no longer exists that year and you should instead look into one of the constituent republics for the information you want. You may want to benchmark this information to some kind of state system membership data.