* This Stata 5.0 "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 vars


*File will create a dataset of physical geography factors, 
*	consisting  of land area, elevation, latitude and longitude,
*	mean distance to coast and rivers, 
*	distance from country centroids to coast and rivers,tropical land area, 
*	tropical population, population density, population in coastal areas
*	and the typical density exprienced by a person, by country

*Modified August 31, 2001

insheet using physfact_rev.csv, names comma clear

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

label var country  "Country name"

label var areakm2  "land area (km2)"

label var cen_lat  "latitude of country centroid"

label var cen_lon  "longitude of country centroid"

label var elev     "mean m above sea level"

label var distcr   "mean dist. to ice-free coast or river"

label var distc    "mean dist. to ice-free to coast"

label var distr    "mean distance to river"

label var cen_c    "dist centroid to coast(km)"

label var cen_cr   "dist centroid to coast/riv (km)"

label var pop100km "pop<+100 km from coast/riv"

label var pop100cr "pop<= 100 km from coast"

label var troppop  "% pop in geographical tropics"

label var pdenpavg "typical pop density experienced by a person (/km2)"

label var tropicar "% land area in geographical tropics"

sort wbcode

save physfact_rev, replace