Wisconsin National Data Consortium

Overview

The WiNDC build routine is a collection of GAMS programs that generate subnational economic accounts for input-output or computable general equilibrium models of the United States economy. All code and data necessary for producing subnational accounts are provided in this repository. Currently, the routine can produce state level accounts with one representative agent per region and with disaggregated consumer accounts.

Core

We begin with the national input-output table of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and downscale to the regional level using publicly available economic statistics from government agencies. We use additional data from the BEA on regional gross product and consumer expenditures and data from the Census Bureau on foreign trade and state government expenditures. We show how to combine publicly available data from these sources and other government agencies to compile a database that serves as input data for the core WiNDC buildstream. The core WiNDC buildstream generates the core WiNDC database. The database contains multisectoral subnational economic datasets for the years 1997 to 2023.

Household

Place the GDX file in the household/datasets/ directory. You can have multiple household GDX files in this directory, you select which is used in the household/build.gms file.

This additionally requires the core GDX file to be downloaded and placed in the core directory.

To use a specific GDX file, set the parameters in household/build.gms as in the following table:

Parameter	hhdata	invest	capital_ownership	rmap	smap
Value	cps	static	all	state	windc

The WiNDC household buildstream is an extension to the core WiNDC buildstream. The core WiNDC database features a state level dataset with a single represenatative agent per region. This dataset provides a means for a spatially denominated distributional analysis, but not for an analysis within consumer types. There are various methods that may be used to disaggregate consumer accounts. We approach this problem from the income side and generate two version of the household dataset: one is based on the Current Population Survey (CPS) from the Census Bureau and the other is based on the Statistics of Income (SOI) from the IRS. Both versions of the dataset use some information from the other data source and delineate five household types per region. The CPS household datasets cover the years 2000 to 2023 and the SOI household datasets cover the years 2014 to 2017.

GTAPWiNDC

The third part of the WiNDC buildstream is the GTAP WiNDC buildstream. The GTAP Consortium provides a documented, publicly available, global, general equilibrium data base. It also conducts seminars on a regular basis to inform the research community about how to use the data in applied economic analysis.

As GTAP 11 data is proprietary we are unable to provide compiled files for this buildstream. To build this with compiled data you need the corresponding household GDX files, which are provided here. The primary data files are for years 2011, 2014 and 2017.

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