KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich — KOF Globalisation Index

Name: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich — KOF Globalisation Index
Creator: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
License: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/footer/disclaimer-copyright.html

Open · redistributedcustom-terms-kof_globalizationInternational TradeSociety & Well-Being

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

5,598

Temporal coverage

1970-12-31 – 2023-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: custom-terms-kof_globalization
License URL: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/footer/disclaimer-copyright.html
Required attribution: Source: KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich — KOF Globalisation Index
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts-and-indicators/indicators/kof-globalisation-index.html
Provider terms: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/footer/disclaimer-copyright.html

How to cite

KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich — KOF Globalisation Index. Retrieved from https://kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts-and-indicators/indicators/kof-globalisation-index.html. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download kof_globalization series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/kof_globalization
Update cadence: annual
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single parquet data/clean_full/kof_globalization/kof_globalization.parquet (~1.4MB; schema series_key:string KOF:{index}:{ISO}, obs_date:date32 (Dec-31), value:float64, zstd). Skip-if-exists guard at lines 152-154; one full XLSX download then one write (lines 165-170).

Full description

KOF Globalisation Index ingest. Source: https://kof.ethz.ch/en/forecasts-and-indicators/indicators/kof-globalisation-index.html Authors: Gygli, Haelg, Potrafke & Sturm (ETH Zurich) License: Free for academic use Coverage: 203 countries, 1970-2022, 24 globalisation sub-indices Indices: KOF Globalisation Index (overall) KOF Economic Globalisation (trade, finance) KOF Social Globalisation (personal contact, info flows, cultural proximity) KOF Political Globalisation (embassies, treaties, IGO memberships) KOF De Facto vs De Jure sub-indices series_key: KOF:{index}:{iso3} e.g. KOF:KOFGI:CHE Output: data/clean_full/kof_globalization/kof_globalization.parquet Run: python jobs/ingest_kof_globalization.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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