A vector with country grouping by subregion for 189 countries — country_grouping

Each of the country is classified into one of the 11 categories according to their geographical location. The categories are:

1: Southern Asia
2: Sub-Saharan Africa
3: Northern, Southern and Western Europe
4: Arab States
5: Latin America and the Caribbean
6: Central and Western Asia
7: South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific
8: Eastern Europe
9: Northern America
10: Eastern Asia
11: Northern Africa

Usage

data(country_grouping_subregionbroad)

Format

A numeric vector with values from 1 to 11

Source

International Labour Organization. (2020). ILO modelled estimates database, ILOSTAT [database]. Available from https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/.

Examples

data(country_grouping_subregionbroad)   # upload the data

# setup a fixed group allocation Panel VAR model
spec = specify_bvarGroupPANEL$new(
         ilo_dynamic_panel,
         group_allocation = country_grouping_subregionbroad
)
#> Country groupings have been pre-specified and will not be estimated.