World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database provides a country-year level indicator measuring the median number of distinct HS6 product codes exported by firms. The dataset is derived from customs transaction records to analyze exporter concentration and diversification. Its creation and update frequency are not specified.
Use Cases
- Model the relationship between a country's median exporter product count and its overall export growth using country and year fields.
- Analyze trends in exporter specialization versus diversification over time with the year and median product count fields.
- Benchmark a country's exporter product diversity against regional peers using the country and indicator value fields.
- Investigate if changes in the median HS6 products per exporter correlate with trade policy shifts using year and country identifiers.
Strengths
- Derived from primary customs transaction data, ensuring a factual foundation.
- Provides a standardized, calculated indicator (median) facilitating cross-country comparison.
Limitations
- Specific sample size, row count, and time coverage are unknown, limiting reproducibility assessment.
- Lacks underlying firm-level transaction data, preventing granular analysis of firm size or product mix.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank - Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Calculated from customs export transaction records.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Country-level coverage, specific countries unknown.