A
command for standardizing country names across data sets, converting back and
forth from one coding scheme to another, and generating geographical region
variables. A helper command kountryadd "teaches" kountry new country name
variations. To install, type ssc install kountry from a web-aware Stata. The program is
documented in
R Raciborski. 2008. kountry: A Stata utility for merging cross-country
data from multiple sources. The Stata Journal 8(3), 390-400.
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