Frichmon

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About OECD GDP data

Hi, Frichmon. I just saw the edition you made on the List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita article. I tend to agree that taking the PPP GDP per capita data already published by OECD and multiplying it by the PPP exchange rate and dividing it for the official/market exchange rate is a better way of obtaining the Nominal GDP per capita, since no estimation of population, that may be outdated, is introduced in the formula and they only explicitly release the PPP data and they didn't published yet yhe 2010 for all countries. But US$ is a mesure of Nominal GDP. International dollar is a mesure of PPP GDP, it's a imaginary currency stabilished with exchange rates for the real currencies in a way these PPP exchange rates converts the other currencies purchase power in their áreas of use to that equivalent to the US$ dollar in the USA. Let's say if the currency X (X$) has an exchange rate to the US$ of 3 X$ to 1 US$, thats the official/market exchange rate. But if the level of prices at the USA is the double of that at the country X, The PPP exchange rate will be 2 X$ to 1 US$ (when using PPP exchange rate US$ is aka Intl.$, since, by definition, at any moment 1 Intl.$ = 1 US$, but the exchange rates to the other currencies are different between then). If the Nominal GDP of counyrt X is X$ 300 billions then the Nominal GDP in US$ will be US$ 100 billions, but the PPP GDP in Intl.$ will be Intl.$ 150 billions. When you take a PPP GDP in Itnl.$ and multiply it by the PPP exchange rate, you are just converting it back to the national currency. When you take that result and divide it by the official/market exchange rate, you are just converting the national currency to US$. That's exactly what you and I did with OECD data, since I'd already collected all the data necessary (plus the population for usingo on the other method (PPP GDP)*(PPP EXC)/(Official EXC)/(Populaion). So the unit for the Nominal GDP we obtained by those methods of conversion is indeed US$. I'change that on the article. One last thing, recently GDP data for Sweden, Portugal and Estonia was updated, whath slithly changed teir results. I'll uodate that too.

Ps: I think that Pristino will eventually turn the data back to the method involving population estimates. =P I took a look on the history and seems like you too are sort of fighting on this. LOL 19:08, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Forgot about something else. It would be good to explain the path we took to reach those values stating the formula and how to reach each piece of data necessary. If not, people will just report fails to verify the source, as already happened before, and may happen pretty much tha same thing that happened on the List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) article, where the OECD table was dropped. I'll do that too. --201.82.134.33 (talk) 19:13, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Real income

THANK YOU! for getting into past GDP PPP per capita in CONSTANT prices,I always thought we needed that! Other wise the past record is terribly lacking.--J intela (talk) 02:31, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

OECD GDP

Hi. What does the spreadsheet do exactly? Pristino (talk) 13:30, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for graphs.

Thank you for creating the graphs that are used in the Economy of the United States and other articles. I have created graphs for other articles, and I appreciate the amount of work involved.

I do have a question about the data that went into these graphs. Is this documented anywhere? If not, I fear we will need to slap "citation needed" templates on all of them, and I really, really hate to do that, because it detracts from the readability of the articles for the general reader.

I do not know if there is a generally accepted method for this. What I do for my graphs is to document the way I create a graph on the commons page for the graph, including references for the data (for an example, see 2012_meningitis_cases.svg. This may be overkill, but I do think that we need at least a hint as to where the data came from. The basic policy here is WP:V, which in a nutshell states that facts in Wikipedia must be cited to reliable soiurces. If I can help you in any way with this, please let me know. In particular, your graphs are extremely valuable, so I do not want to discourage you from producing and maintaining them. And again, thanks -Arch dude (talk) 23:40, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

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