[p2p-research] Economic statistics

[Ryan Lanham]

If what you are saying is that you are looking for a cheap place to live
that has other benefits, I here a lot of people choosing Panama right now
who are American.  Americans face a lot of bias globally in politics.  I
find even wearing a Canada jacket I get treated very
differently...especially in Europe.  Worthwhile trick for the American
traveller.  For similar reasons, I know many Americans who keep an Argentine
football shirt to where when travelling through South America or Central
America.  I would imagine something similar would apply to owning a New
Zealand shirt in Asia.

R.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Reid Cornwell <wrc at tcfir.org> wrote:

>  Ryan,
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> Thank
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> s for your reply. The links your provided are terrific!
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> As to my purpose: I am trying to determine a way to look at a fixed income
> against a local economy in order to work, study, write, and be productive
> without having to work for wages (be employed). Does that help? If not I’ll
> try to restate.
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> Reid
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> *From:* p2presearch-bounces at listcultures.org [mailto:
> p2presearch-bounces at listcultures.org] *On Behalf Of *Ryan Lanham
> *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 11:58 AM
> *To:* p2p research network
> *Subject:* Re: [p2p-research] Economic statistics
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> Certainly no one in the US will fault you for using the CIA database which
> is exceedingly well done and carefully maintained.  Some places and
> organizations obviously blanche at the idea of the CIA.  The data and
> estimates are astonishingly good...for the Cayman Islands their numbers are
> often better than ours...how, I have no idea.
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> https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/rankorderguide.html
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> R.
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> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Both of these are problematic in a number of ways.
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> Average income can be GDP/person or average wages.  I suspect you mean
> average wages.  That is harder to come by for smaller nations.  Also, the
> standard deviation is hugely important.  India, for instance, has high wages
> for 100 million of its billion people.  But 800 million live on less than 10
> dollars a day...many on less than 2 dollars a day.  Therefore you want to
> understand GINI indicies.
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> Cost of living is normally computed by a basket and the UN has several
> databases where they are present.  As a data point, it too suffers from high
> variance.  London is one of the most expensive cities on earth.  But England
> is not very expensive.  So too of New York City and rural Oklahoma.
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> Even GINI can vary greatly. London has the highest GINI index on earth but
> the UK's GINI isn't all that high.  This is true in Asia nations
> especially...Africa strangely enough now has the most expensive cities on
> earth for executive ratings.  Of course most Africans live on less than 2
> dollars per day.
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> I'd feel more comfortable giving pointers to data sets (Nationstates is
> very good) if I knew how you intend to use it.  Averages don't mean that
> much, I'm afraid.  I'd encourage you to consider standard deviations and
> quintiles...which are much more useful.
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> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Reid Cornwell <wrc at tcfir.org> wrote:
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>   Does anyone know a ready resource for:
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> 1.       Average annual incomes by country.
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> 2.       Cost of living by country.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Reid
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