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François edited this page Aug 5, 2013 · 31 revisions

Welcome to the xtdata wiki! This project aims at providing some helper functions to users working with Quality of Government datasets, especially with regards to merging different cross-sectional time series.

Readings

Jerven, Morten (2013), Poor Numbers. Cornell University Press.
Rothstein, Bo (2011) The Quality of Government. University of Chicago Press.
QOG Reading Recommendations (time series methodological articles)

Technical

Here are the Stata do-file and R script to generate the QOG variable indexes bundled in the package.

Stuff for future versions

xtlag and xtlead as in DataCombine
xtevent: time-since-event and decay functions
simcf (Zelig simulations for TSCS models)

Further inspiration

eeptools, questionr, memisc and usgd (surveys)
ggplot2 (graphics)