Paraguay's Historical Trade Data from 1800 to 2016

Paraguay's trade records from the Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database, a project by Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena Junguito. The dataset likely contains quantitative measures of trade flows, covering a 216-year period from 1800 to 2016. It was last updated in the dataverse on May 5, 2024.

Use Cases

• Modeling Paraguay's economic integration based on the long-term trade series.
• Analyzing the impact of global events on a national economy based on the 1800-2016 time range.
• Benchmarking Paraguay's trade performance against other countries in the historical database.
• Studying the evolution of trade policy and its effects based on the documented changes in world trade.

Strengths

• Covers a significant 216-year time span from 1800 to 2016.
• Part of a larger, established historical database project by academic researchers.
• Provides a country-specific view of global trade changes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database project by Giovanni Federico (Università di Pisa) and Antonio Tena Junguito (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Collection Method

Likely compiled from historical national accounts, customs records, and other archival sources.

Time Range

1800 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 04:32:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Paraguay