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| CHELEM |
CHELEM ON THE NET
FREE TRIAL |
| The CEPII has constructed
a database called CHELEM. It is made of three sub-databases which make it possible
to analyse the relative positions of individual countries and their interdependence
within the global economy. The CEPII has decided to make the data and its economic
indicators publicly available, so that the whole CHELEM database is now distributed
on CDROM and online |
Harmonised Accounts
on Trade and The World Economy
Presentation 
World Economic Overview |
These databases are brought together
using a common geographic classification ,
which allows users to construct a whole range of specific indicators. Long term,
annual data are available on all three databases, stretching back to 1960 or 1967.
Together, the databases constitute a coherent view of the world economy, and are
updated every year. CHELEM's common classification system breaks down the world
intro 94 elementary geographic zones, one zone of not elsewhere specified and
the total of the world. One can distinguish:- the 70 most important countries
(or groups of countries), which account for 97% of world trade and 98% of world
output;- 12 geographic zones that group together all other countries. This detailed
geographic classification can be used to provide aggregate figures for any trade
zone required by the user. While they were originally set up to meet the CEPII's
research needs, they are used increasingly by other French and international economists.
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The Three Databases |
The International
Trade Database (CHELEM-IT) brings together flows in trade, which are broken-down
either into 71 CHELEM product categories, 43 GTAP products or 147 ISIC (4 digit). These trade figures are given in current US dollars
(millions), and are available from 1967. Trade statistics for flows between geographic
zones (countries and country groups) are provided for each year, and for each
product category, in a single, " harmonised " matrix. Similarly,
product categories can be aggregated as necessary: by Chain, Stage, Branch, Sector
or Industry.
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International Trade
Database |
The GDP
Database (CHELEM-GDP) provides data on economic aggregates, running from 1960.
The data covers the world both at the level of CHELEM's 94 elementary zones and
for the 204 independent countries and territories for which data is available.
A particular effort has been made to provide statistics on the countries of the
Former soviet Union. Five data series are provided for each country or zone, including:
total population (in millions of inhabitants); value GDP expressed in current
US dollars (millions) on the basis of current, national prices converted using
nominal exchange rates to the dollar; volume GDP expressed in constant US dollars
(base year 1995) and based on constant, national prices; volume GDP expressed
in PPPs (purchasing power parities) in international prices and converted in constant
US dollars (millions - base year 2005), and lastly; the nominal exchange rates
for all independent countries.
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GDP Database |
The Balance
of Payments Database (CHELEM-BOP) contains data on balance of payments, stretching
back to 1967, and covering the whole world. Figures are available for 199 countries,
as well as for the 94 elementary zones of the common classification, and for all
international organisations. The data is provided in current US dollars (millions)
adopting the 133 headings of the IMF, and is completed and corrected. It includes
aggregate figures for 49 headings, for invisible flows, capital movements and
monetary transactions. In addition, 27 principal balances are calculated.
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Balance of Payments Database |
| CHELEM's systematic coverage of the world,
the coherence of the system and the harmonisation of its classification make it
possible to use the three databases to calculate easily a number of key statistical
indicators, including: structural ratios, trade balances, export cover, imports
and exports per capita, annual growth, flow hierarchies or cumulative balances. The
CEPII has also developed a number of
indicators for analysing international trade in particular. These can only
be calculated by using all three databases. The indicators are set out in the
programme used to access the CDROM, which also explains how they are calculated. |
Indicators |
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