DHL Global Connectedness Index 2020
Steven A. Altman and Caroline R. Bastian

Data files for researchers

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Author Information
Name: Steven A. Altman
ORCID: 0009-0001-7814-4691
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business 
Email: saltman@stern.nyu.edu

Name: Caroline R. Bastian
ORCID: 0009-0008-0103-599X
Institution: New York University Stern School of Business 
Email: cbastian@stern.nyu.edu

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: 
All rights reserved.

Contact authors for usage.

Date of data collection: Middle of 2020; analysis performed 2020-10-05.
Geographic location of data collection: United States-New York

Funding sources: Deutsche Post DHL Group

For more information on the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2020, see 
https://www.dhl.com/gci. Index methodology is described in Section VI of the 
report, pages 73-85.

Recommended citation for this dataset: 
Altman, Steven A. and Caroline R. Bastian. DHL Global Connectedness Index
    2020. Bonn: Deutsche Post DHL (2020). DOI:10.58153/x1xmj-5nq11

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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

Files:  
    dhl-global-connectedness-index-2020-complete-report.pdf
	dhl-global-connectedness-index-2020-country-book.pdf
	dhl-global-connectedness-global-trends-2001-2019.csv
    dhl-global-connectedness-scores-ranks-2001-2019.csv

dhl-global-connectedness-index-2020-complete-report.pdf
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This is the full report in English.

dhl-global-connectedness-index-2020-country-book.pdf
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This is a companion publication to the report with country profiles for each of
the 169 countries covered in the report.

dhl-global-connectedness-global-trends-2001-2019.csv
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This file contains the indexed global trends for 2001-2019. The global trends
are presented in the report in Section II (pages 11-18). The methodology is 
presented on page 74. Data sources are shown in Section 3 of the Country Book
(pages 187-193).

Number of variables: 5
Number of cases/rows: 95

Variable List:
    pillar - categorical: overall, trade, capital, information, or people;
	    the index pillar of the observation
	year - integer: Year of observation
	index - continuous (2001 = 100): Overall connectedness level of pillar;
	    average of depth_index and breadth_index
	depth_index - continuous (2001 = 100): Depth level of pillar
	breadth_index - continuous (2001 = 100): Breadth level of pillar

dhl-global-connectedness-scores-ranks-2001-2019.csv
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This file contains the country scores and ranks for 2001-2019. The country
scores and ranks are presented in the report in Section IV (pages 45-55). The
methodology is presented in Section VI (pages 73-85). Data sources are shown in
Section 3 of the Country Book (pages 187-193).

Number of variables: 10
Number of cases/rows: 12928

Variable List: 
    pillar - categorical: overall, trade, capital, information, or people; 
	    the index pillar of the observation
	iso - categorical: ISO 3166 alpha-3 code for country of observation
	country - categorical: Name of country in English
	year - integer: Year of observation
	overall_score - continuous (range 0-100): the observed score for each 
	    country-year-pillar combination; sum of depth and breadth scores
	depth_score - continuous (range 0-50): the observed depth (intensity)
	    score for each country-year-pillar combination
	breadth_score - continuous (range 0-50): the observed breadth (extensity) 
	    score for each country-year-pillar combination
	overall_rank - integer: ordinal rank of observation score in the year it
	    was observed
	depth_rank - integer: ordinal rank of observation depth score in the year
	    it was observed
	breadth_rank - integer: ordinal rank of observation breadth score in the
	    year it was observed