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Read Me file for data associated with

Barker E. R. and Bijak J (2021) Uncertainty in Migration Scenarios. QuantMig Project Deliverable D9.2 Data Description. Southampton: University of Southampton. 

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Each country has its own file. The country is identified by its two letter code.
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, the UK, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia (SI) and Slovakia (SK) .


Variables in the data set:
TQ: Time period 2002.00 refers to 2002Q1, 2002.25 2002Q2 etc	
nmquart: Net Immigration rate per 1000 working age
GDP: Eeal GDP (logged, per working age) (expenditure approach)
Cons: Real Private consumption (logged, per working age)	
Invest: Real Private investment (logged, per working age)	
Unemp:	Unemployment rate %
Emp: Employment Rate	%
lnWageSal: Real Wages and Salaries (logged, per working age)	
WagePre: (Real W&S Country(logged, per working age))/(Real W&S of EU-15 (logged, per working age))
lnGovPurq: Real Government Purchases (logged, per working age)
lnNetTaxq: Real Net Tax Revenues (logged, per working age)	
lnTaxRevq: Real Tax Revenues (logged, per working age)
lnTransq	: Real Transfers (logged, per working age)
lnEmigq: ln(Emigration rate)
lnImmigq: ln(Immigration rate)
lnNMq: ln(immigration rate/emigration rate)	
Immigquart: Immigration rate	
Emigquart: Emigration rate
NMq: Net migration rate
NetFLqpc: Net Financial Liabilities %
netemig: net emigration rate
lnCmnMktpc: European common labour market minus home country (logged, per working age)

For data not collected from sources at a quarterly format, we employed the Canova and Ferroni (2020) toolbox. This was compiled using Matlab 2020a on macOS Big Sur v11.1.

The data in this toolbox was used in the forecasts and Panel VAR.

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Canova, F. and Ferroni, F. (2020), A hitchhiker guide to empirical macro models, CEPR
Discussion Papers 15446, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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Collected by Emily Barker 19 October 2021
University of Southampton
If you spot an error, or have any questions, please contact E Barker or J Bijak.
E.R.Barker@soton.ac.uk
J.Bijak@soton.ac.uk