DDL World Bank Subnational Doing Business

Dataset: doing-business
Package scope: Matched World Bank source cities attached to released parent UAs
Dataset version: v0.3.0

Contents
- ddl-doing-business.parquet: source-grain table
- ddl-doing-business.csv: the same rows as text
- This README

Schema
- id: UGC city identifier.
- version: Boundary version used for this match.
- alpha3: ISO3 country code.
- source_country_name: Country label in the World Bank source.
- source_city: World Bank source-city label; several may map to one UA.
- source_region: Region label in the World Bank source.
- data_as_of: Date associated with the source observation.
- starting_business_overall_score: World Bank overall score stored in the starting_business_overall_score source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- construction_permit_overall_score_20: World Bank overall score stored in the construction_permit_overall_score_20 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- construction_permit_overall_score_15: World Bank overall score stored in the construction_permit_overall_score_15 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- getting_electricity_overall_score_20: World Bank overall score stored in the getting_electricity_overall_score_20 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- getting_electricity_overall_score_15: World Bank overall score stored in the getting_electricity_overall_score_15 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- registering_property_overall_score_20: World Bank overall score stored in the registering_property_overall_score_20 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- registering_property_overall_score_15: World Bank overall score stored in the registering_property_overall_score_15 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- paying_taxes_overall_score_20: World Bank overall score stored in the paying_taxes_overall_score_20 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- paying_taxes_overall_score_16: World Bank overall score stored in the paying_taxes_overall_score_16 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- enforcing_contracts_overall_score_20: World Bank overall score stored in the enforcing_contracts_overall_score_20 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.
- enforcing_contracts_overall_score_15: World Bank overall score stored in the enforcing_contracts_overall_score_15 source field. _xx suffixes indicate different World Bank methodologies. See notes for more information.

Notes
- The World Bank discontinued Doing Business; these are historical observations.
- Preserve separate source-city rows. Do not average them or select one implicitly.
- Suffixes 20, 15, and 16 identify different source methodology fields; do not coalesce them.
- Null score fields mean unavailable, not zero.

License
- Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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