Exporter-level information on export transactions from customs data, compiled by the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database. The dataset provides median values for the product entry rate of incumbent firms, serving as a country-year level indicator of export diversification.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between a country's median product entry rate and its overall export growth using country-year indicators.
- Model export diversification trends by examining the product entry rate metric across different countries and years.
- Benchmark the export behavior of incumbent firms in one country against global medians provided in the dataset.
Strengths
- Data originates from official customs records, providing a factual transaction basis.
- Aggregated at the country-year level, enabling macro-level comparative analysis.
Limitations
- Specific sample size, row count, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Lacks granular firm- or transaction-level columns for micro-analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database
- Collection Method
- Compiled from exporter-level customs transaction data.
- Geography
- Multiple countries (specific coverage unknown).