The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)
S. no. | Variables | Normalization of the variables | Data source |
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01 | Transport infrastructure (A) Land transport (i) Length of total road network (ii) Paved road (iii) Proportion of motorways (iv) Registered passenger cars | Population density | International Road Federation (IRF) World Road Statistic and World Development Indicators (WDI) |
(v) No. of registered commercial-vehicles | Population density of Pakistan | Facts and figures of (VDA) German Association (GAAI) of the Automotive Industry | |
(vi) Length of total railway route | Population density of Pakistan | WDI | |
(vii) Goods-transported | Area | ||
(viii) Railway passengers | Population size | ||
(B) C transport Overall carrying capacity of economy ships (i) Relative to its geographic area (ii) % of aggregate world-carrying capacity | (UNCTAD) United Nations Conference of Trade and Development Data Base | ||
(C) Air transport (i) Carrier departure registered in Pakistan | Relative to population | WDI | |
(ii) Volume of air-freight | Relative to country size | ||
2 | Telecommunication infrastructure (i) No. of fixed-telephone lines (ii) Mobile-cellular-telephone subscribers (iii) No. of ISDN subscribers For quality measures (a) Faults per 100 fixed-telephones lines in 1 year (expressed in per capita terms) | WDI | |
3 | Energy infrastructure (i) Consumption of electric power (ii) Production of electric power Note: both undermentioned indicators are measure in per capita terms For quality measures: (a) Electric-power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) | WDI | |
4 | Financial infrastructure (i) Stock market turn-over ratio [efficiency] (ii) No. of “Bank Account” per capita (iii) Values of overall “traded share” outside the major “10 traded companies” as a shares of the aggregate value of overall traded share (iv) No. of public recorded “companies per capita” (v) “Private credit” by deposit money, banks “Relative-GDP” (vi) Values of aggregate shares traded on the “Stock Market” exchange (relative to gross domestic product) (vii) Money (M2) and quasi-money percentage of GDP Note: all these selected indicators or employed in log form excluding no. of bank account and no. of public listed companies | World Bank Global Financial Development Data Base |