by Absell, Christopher / e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse·Updated 2y ago
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Description
Gambia's international trade records from 1948 to 2020, compiled by researchers Christopher Absell, Giovanni Federico, and Antonio Tena Junguito. The data is part of the Absell-Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database. It was last updated in the dataverse repository on May 5, 2024.
Use Cases
Analyzing long-term trends in Gambia's imports and exports based on the historical time series.
Modeling the impact of global economic events on a small nation's trade based on the 72-year coverage.
Conducting comparative studies of West African trade economies using this country-specific dataset.
Strengths
Covers a long historical period from 1948 to 2020.
Created by named academic researchers from multiple institutions.
Part of a larger, established world trade database project.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
Source
Absell, Christopher; Federico, Giovanni; Tena Junguito, Antonio
Collection Method
Likely compiled from historical trade records and official statistics.
Time Range
1948-2020
Freshness
Last updated 2024-05-05 07:21:08; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Gambia
License is unknown; terms of use should be verified before application.