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Submitting data for the yearbook process

Yearbook process already has all the indicators from

1. FAOSTAT
2. World Bank WDI
3. Source 3
4. Source 4
5. Source 5

(You can browse the current list of indicators here:)

However, you may want to add your own data and here we define some preferred guidelines for sharing data for this process.

Ideally, we would like to have the data in tidy-format. In principal, a dataset is said to be tidy if it satisfies the following conditions

• observations are in rows
• variables are in columns
• contained in a single dataset.

Tidy data makes it easier for us to carry out data analysis.

An example dataset for yearbook process could look like this:

country_code	country_name	Year	variable1	variable2	variable3
106	Italy	1995	123	345	678
106	Italy	1996	123	345	678
106	Italy	1997	123	345	678
110	Japan	1995	123	345	678
110	Japan	1996	123	345	678
110	Japan	1997	123	345	678

In addition, we would need a metadata file that describes the raw data. In the case above it would look like this

variable	short description	unit	source	long description
country_code	FAOSTAT country code
country_name	FAOSTAT country name
Year	Year in four digit
variable1	dietary energy supply	(kcal/pc/day)
variable2	Prevalence of undernourishment	percent
variable3	Area equipped for irrigation	(1000 ha)

• How to share data with a statistician