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Industry concordances (file 1-3 in Stata format, file 4 in Excel):
Deflators (7 Stata data files):
input_benchmark; (note: there was a mistake in this file and we updated it 15/11/2018)
Programs (2 Stata program files, #3 is Stata data file used by #2):
Calculate real capital stock (note: 2007 investment deflator is 116.7)
Data on investment growth needed in the program to calculate real capital stock
contains a README document that describes a two-step procedure for constructing the simulated analysis sample by reweighting the Source Data (STA) so that its covariate distribution matches that of the Target Population (NBS).
contains the following files:
R Programs: For estimating the density ratio weights (two specifications: constant and year-specific).
Stata Do file: For drawing the final weighted sample.
Example data files:
An example file of the stacked input dataset for the R program
An example file of the resulting weight estimates
The target sample size file used in the simulation