Economic Integration Agreements (EIA)
Economic integration agreements (EIA)
Data on economic integration agreements (EIA) between country pairs per year. This is not a binary indicator (0 for no agreement, 1 for an agreement between the countries of the country pair) but rather a multichotomous index in which:
- 0 represents the absence of economic integration agreement,
- 1 represents a one-way preferential trade agreement,
- 2 represents a two-way preferential trade agreement,
- 3 represents a free trade agreement,
- 4 represents a customs union,
- 5 represents a common market, and
- 6 represents an economic union.
Even though the dataset I downloaded from the NSF-Kellogg Institute website is the one from April 2017, the dataset only covers economic integration agreements until 2012.
The dataset gathers data on 195 home countries and 195 host countries (37 826 country pairs), covering 63 years (from 1950 to 2012). It contains 1 844 965 observations across 8 variables:
ID: character string indicating the countries forming each country pair (ISO3 code) and the year.
ID_o: character string indicating the home country (origin) and the year.
ID_d: character string indicating the host country (destination) and the year.
origin: character string indicating the first country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.
destination: character string indicating the second country (ISO3 code) of the country pair.
country_pair: character string indicating the country pair (ISO3 code).
year: integer indicating the year.
EconomicIntegrationAgreements: integer indicating the extent (0-6) of the economic integration agreement (EIA) between the home and the host country for each year.