New UNCTAD study: Revealed Factor Intensity Indices at the Product Level

A forthcoming UNCTAD study, titled “Revealed Factor Intensity Indices at the Product Level” describes a data-intensive methodology to generate indices that indicate “revealed” factor intensity of traded goods, at the most disaggregated level of product classification (SITC 5-digit or HS 6-digit). The indices are constructed by calculating, for each good, a weighted average of the factor abundance of the countries that export this good, where the weights are variants of Balassa’s Revealed Comparative Advantage index.

The dataset that contains the Revealed Factor Intensity (RFI) indices is available below.

RFII_database_excel.zip
RFII_database_stata.zip

The description of the RFI dataset provides the explanation of the structure and the contents of the files.

Dataset of Revealed Factor Intensity (RFI)