There are three files with the data

Readme.txt              This file
BDT200402.xls           Excel file with actual data at intervals available and used
BDTInterp200402.xls     Excel file with interpolated data
BDTCoreData.log         Summary statistics on data in the Excel file for actual data (not on site right now)


Related papers and Data Appendix

The construction of these data and the underlying sources are described in 
"Data Appendix to
    How Important Are Capital and Total Factor Productivity for Economic Growth?"
by Scott L. Baier, Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. and Robert Tamura.

A basic summary and analysis of these data is presented in
"How Important Are Capital and Total Factor Productivity for Economic Growth?"
by Scott L. Baier, Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. and Robert Tamura. January 2004.

Two analyses that uses a slightly earlier set of data ending in 1999 are
"Modern Economic Growth and Recent Stagnation." In Federal Reserve
    Bank of Atlanta Economic Review 88 (Third Quarter 2003), 45-62.
by Scott L. Baier, Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. and Robert Tamura.
and
"Does the Creation of Stock Exchanges Increase Economic Growth?" In
Journal of International Money and Finance, (April 2004), in press.


The Excel file BDT200402.xls

heading in Excel file   More descriptive name
country                 Country Name
id                      Unique ID for each country
region                  Code for region used by Baier, Dwyer and Tamura
    Codes
    1    Western Countries
    2    Southern Europe
    3    Eastern Europe
    4    NICs
    5    Asia
    6    Sub-Saharan Africa (Also "Southern Africa")
    7    Latin America
    8    Middle East
    9    Northern Africa
year                        Year
invrateppp                  PPP Investment Rate
ypp                         Output Per-Capita
ypw                         Output Per Worker
school                      Years of Schooling (Avg.)
avgage                      Average Age (not Enrolled Under 65)
exper                       Average Experience of Labor Force Participant
hum_cap                     Level of Human Capital (Schooling and Experience)
lf                          Labor Force
pop                         Population
sscap                       Steady State Capital Stock
kpw                         Capital Per Worker (Perpetual Inventory)
lfpr                        Labor Force Particpation Rate
invrate                     Investment Rate (Not PPP)
lnypw                       Ln of Output Per Worker
lnkpw                       Ln of Physical Capital Per Worker
lhum_cap                    Ln of Human Capital Per Worker
lnpop                       Ln of Population
ltfp                        Ln of Total Factor Productivity