These 59 projects took me about 3 hours total. Which isn't so bad. However I still have to code all the GDP/GNI/PCI/etc data from the years of completion. However the more tedious coding from the World Bank site is done for Azerbaijan; leaving me the other 5 countries to do and another couple hundred projects. Here's what my data is looking like:
I'm going to go work on book two of Gulag Archipelago now. Mind break time.
Since I finished the rough stats yesterday, I decided to dig into project coding this morning. So much information, but I needed to start it so I could rewrite my project coding guide. Here's a quick look:
So, I've started my base statistics for this project. Basically since I need a ton of data at my fingertips to complete my methodology of measuring various economic and social aspects at different points in time I've compiled a table of just that. Here's a preview!
As part of my statistical model which will be discussed in the upcoming months, raw data is very important in measuring GDP/GNP and investments. This site is bare bones but put together by the Interstate Statistics Committee of the CIS: