[open-economics] Financial comparisons

[Tryggvi Björgvinsson]

Hi and thanks for the response,

On fim 6.jún 2013 16:03, Guo Xu wrote:
> How far do you want to go back?

The more data I can get the better.

> Calculating deflators is not trivial, particularly as baskets are
> different and keep changing over time! The standard source for CPI is
> from the Penn World Tables. This should give you data running back to
> 1950.
>
> https://pwt.sas.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php

This is great. It goes further back for many countries than the World
Bank dataset but it stops at 2010. So I'll still run into the problem of
what to do for years when there is no data.

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