ETD Transition Economies

The Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies [ETD-TE] provides a balanced panel of internationally comparable sectoral data on output and employment in fourteen former-Soviet Republics. The ETD-TE is designed to easily combine with the GGDC/UN-WIDER Economic Transformation Database [ETD]. It enables a comparative analysis of growth and structural transformation between the former-Soviet Union countries, and other advanced and developing countries.

Attribution requirement

When using the data for whatever purpose, please make the following reference:

Hamilton, C. and G. J. de Vries (2023). The Structural Transformation of Transition Economies. GGDC Research Memorandum 196. Data available for download at https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/structuralchange/ETD-Transition-Economies
This data set is hosted on Dataverse, it can be accessed in its entirety through the following doi: 10.34894/E7MVOX

License

The Economic Transformation Database of Transition Economies is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

User information

The ETD-TE covers:

Countries

Armenia	Kazakhstan	Russian Federation
Azerbaijan	Kyrgyzstan	Tajikistan
Belarus	Latvia	Ukraine
Estonia	Lithuania	Uzbekistan
Georgia	Moldova

Variables

Persons Employed (thousands)

Constant price value added in local currency (millions)

Nominal price value added in local currency (millions)

*Where countries changed or revalued currency during the sample period, all VA data is provided in units of the most recent/current currency.

Sectors

Description	ISIC Revision 4 code
Agriculture	A
Mining	B
Manufacturing	C
Utilities	D+E
Construction	F
Trade Services	G+I
Transport	H
Business Services	J+M+N
Financial Services	K
Real Estate	L
Government Services	O+P+Q
Other Services	R+S+T+U

Time period

Time period: persons employed and constant price value added is provided annually for the period 1990-2019, and nominal price value added for the period 1995-2019.

Sources and Methods

Full details of the sources, methods, assumptions, and construction procedure can be found in the body and appendices of Hamilton & de Vries (2023) as cited above.

Please contact the ETD-TE team at GGDC regarding any questions on the database at ggdc rug.nl.