* This Stata 6.0 "do" file loads and labels data from 
*   Gallup, John Luke, Sachs, Jeffrey D., and Mellinger, Andrew D. 1999.
*     "Geography and Economic Development," in Pleskovic, Boris, 
*     and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., World Bank Annual Conference on 
*     Development Economics 1998.  Washington: World Bank, pp. 127-128.
* See Gallup, Sachs, and Mellinger, pp. 161-164 for more detailed 
*   explanation of variables

insheet using geodata.csv, names comma clear

label var wbcode   "World Bank (ISO) 3-letter country code"
label var country  "Country name"

label var gdp50    "GDP per capita, 1950 (Maddison)"
label var gdp90    "GDP per capita, 1990 (Maddison)"
label var gdp95    "GDP per capita, 1995 (World Bank)"
label var gdp65    "GDP per capita, 1965 (Penn Tables)"
label var gdpg6590 "GDP p.c. growth, 1965-90 (Penn Tables)"

label var lnd100km "%land w/in 100km coast"
label var pop100km "%pop w/in 100km coast"
label var lnd100cr "%land w/in 100km coast or river"
label var pop100cr "%pop w/in 100km coast or river"

label var dens65c  "Coastal population density, 1965"
label var dens65i  "Inland population density, 1965"
label var dens95c  "Coastal population density, 1995"
label var dens95i  "Inland population density, 1995"

label var landlock "Landlocked"
label var landlneu "Landlocked, not W&C Europe"
label var airdist  "km to closest major port"
label var ciffob95 "CIF/FOB shipping cost, 1995"

label var tropicar "% land in geographical tropics"
label var troppop  "% population in geographical tropics, 1994"
label var malfal66 "Falciparam malaria index, 1966"
label var malfal94 "Falciparam malaria index, 1994"
label var lhcpc    "log Hydrocarbons per capita, 1993"
label var south    "Southern hemisphere countries"
label var landarea "Land area (sq km)"

label var open6590 "Openness (Sachs&Warner), 1965-90"
label var icrg82   "Quality of public institutions, 1982"
label var newstate "Timing of independence"
label var socialst "Socialist country, 1950-95"
label var lifex65  "Life expectancy, 1965 (UN)"
label var syr1565l "log years secondary schooling, 1965 (Barro&Lee)"
label var urbpop95 "% population urban, 1995 (World Bank)"
label var wardum   "Had external war, 1960-85"
label var pop95    "Population in 1995 (World Bank)"

label var zpolar   "Polar non-desert (% land area)"
label var zboreal  "Boreal regions (% land area)"
label var zdestmp  "Temperate Desert (+pol+bor)"
label var zdestrp  "Tropical+Subtrop Desert"
label var zdrytemp "Dry Temperate (% land area)"
label var zwettemp "Wet Temperate (% land area)"
label var zsubtrop "Subtropics (% land area)"
label var ztropics "Tropics (% land area)"
label var zwater   "Water (lakes & ocean)"

label var eu "Western Europe"
label var safri "Sub-Saharan Africa"
label var sasia "South Asia"
label var transit "Transition countries (FSU & EE)"
label var latam "Latin America & Caribbean"
label var eseasia "East and Southeast Asia"

note gdp95: PPP GDP per capita for Afghanistan; Albania; Cambodia; /*                              
 */ Cuba; Eritrea; Iraq; Korea Dem.People's Rep.; /*
 */ Liberia; Libya Arab Jamahiriy; Somalia; Sudan; Taiwan;  /*
 */ The fmr Yug Rep Macedonia; Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) /*
 */ (source: Central Intelligence Agency. 1996. The World Factbook. /*
 */ Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency)                                                     
note gdp95: data for Bosnia/Herzegovina; Bhutan; Brunei; /*
 */ Djibouti; Equatorial Guinea; French Guiana /*
 */ (source: Central Intelligence Agency. 1997. The World Factbook. /*
 */ Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency)

note airdist: Airdist is great circle distance in km to closest port: New /*
 */ York, Rotterdam, Tokyo 

note lnd100km: Excludes coastline north of winter ice line (Arctic).
note pop100km: Excludes coastline north of winter ice line (Arctic).

note lnd100cr: Coastline (as in lnd100km) + sea navigable rivers.
note lnd100cr: Excludes Caspian Sea and Volga/Don.

note pop100cr: Coastline (as in pop100km) + sea navigable rivers.
note lnd100cr: Excludes Caspian Sea and Volga/Don.

note socialst: Socialist countries are those in table 1.1 of Kornai  /*
  */ (including states in FSU and former Yugoslavia) and libya, iraq,
  */ syria, and cambodia

note lifex65: Data for Taiwan from Taiwan Statistical Yearbook

sort wbcode
save geodata, replace