DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014

284 Appendix B – Data Sources, Regression Results, Region Classifications
Part 1 Data Sources Employed
Table B.2 (continued) Data Sources Employed to Calculate Breadth Scores
Pillar Variable Definition Source
Information
Incoming Telephone
Call Minutes
Minutes of phone calls by country of origin and
destination.
Telegeography (http://www.telegeography.com/
index.html)
Outgoing Telephone
Call Minutes
Minutes of phone calls by country of origin and
destination.
Printed Publications
Exports
Bilateral exports of the sub-headings included
under the code 49 according to the Harmonized
System Classification reported by exporters.
UN Comtrade (http://comtrade.un.org/db/); data
for Taiwan were retrieved from Bureau of Foreign
Trade (http://cus93.trade.gov.tw/ENGLISH/FSCE/)
Printed Publications
Imports
Bilateral imports of the sub-headings included
under the code 49 according to the Harmonized
System Classification reported by importers.
People Emigrants Migrants by country of origin and destination. United Nations, Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, Population Division, Trends in
International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination
and Origin (United Nations data base, 2013
Revision) (Stock of migrants 2000, 2010 and 2013)
(http://esa.un.org/unmigration/TIMSO2013/migrantstocks2013.htm)
Immigrants Migrants by country of origin and destination. United Nations, Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, Population Division, Trends in
International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination
and Origin (United Nations data base, 2013
Revision) (Stock of migrants 2000, 2010 and
2013) (http://esa.un.org/unmigration/TIMSO2013/
migrantstocks2013.htm); data for Taiwan were
retrieved from Statistical Yearbook of the Interior
(http://sowf.moi.gov.tw/stat/year/elist.htm)
Inbound Tourists
Arrivals of overnight tourists by country of residence
or by country of nationality (using measures
taken at borders or at lodging establishments,
depending on data availability). In cases where
destination countries reported more than one
measure, first preference was given to measures
providing the broadest coverage across origin
countries. In cases where coverage across origin
countries was similar across multiple measures,
(a) measures taken at borders were preferred
over measures taken at lodging establishments
and (b) measures based on tourists’ countries of
residence were preferred over measures based on
tourists’ nationalities.
Compendium of Tourism Statistics,
UNWTO (http://unwto.org/en)
Incoming International
Students
Incoming students by country of origin.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://stats.
uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.
aspxReportId=136&IF_Language=eng&BR_Topic=0);
data for Taiwan from Ministry of Education
Republic of China (Taiwan) (http://english.moe.
gov.tw/ct.aspxItem=9874&CtNode=404&mp=1)