An Introduction to the African Commodity Trade Database, 1730-2010

The African Commodity Trade Database (ACTD) aims to stimulate and deepen research on African and global economic history. The database provides export and import series at product level for more than two and a half centuries of African trade (1730-2010). This article introduces potential users to some of the major questions that can be explored with African commodity trade data, as well as the sources, structure and limitations of the dataset. The current version of the ACTD is downloadable from the data repository of the African Economic History Network (www.aehnetwork.org/data-research) and will be regularly updated with new data.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xt9-fzkw
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-vfnr-4m
Related Identifier http://www.aehnetwork.org/data-research
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:75672
Provenance
Creator Frankema, E.; Woltjer, P.; Dalrymple-Smith, A.; Bulambo, L.
Publisher Wageningen University
Contributor Wageningen University
Publication Year 2017
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/msword; application/postscript; excel / xlsx
Discipline Economics; History; Humanities; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Africa