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PRODUCER AND CONSUMER SUBSIDY EQUIVALENTS (Corrected 6/98) Stock #95001
Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture

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This data set contains spreadsheet data files in Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.x (.wk1) 
read-only format.  The files correspond to the data tables in Estimates of 
Producer and Consumer Subsidy Equivalents: Government Intervention in 
Agriculture, 1982-92, a statistical bulletin of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, Economic Research Service.  Data for 31 countries for the years 
1982-1992 are presented here if available, which may include data for years not 
included in the print version because of space constraints.  The countries are:

         *Argentina                     Poland
         *Australia                     South Africa
         *Brazil                        Senegal
          Canada                        South Korea
         *Chile                         Taiwan
          China                         Tanzania
          Colombia                      Turkey
          Czechoslovakia                USA
          EC                            USSR
          Egypt                        *Venezuela
          Hungary                       Yugoslavia
          India                         Zambia
          Jamaica                       Zimbabwe
          Japan
          Kenya
          Mexico
          Nigeria
         *New Zealand

A * indicates that only producer subsidy equivalent (PSE) data are available for 
that country; consumer subsidy equivalent (CSE) data were not calculated for 
these countries.  For each country, files are named as follows:
         
          **PSE1.wk1     corresponds to Table 1 of the print publication
                         "Summary of aggregate producer support"

          **PSE2.wk1     corresponds to Table 2 of the print publication
                         "Summary of producer support by commodity"
            
          **PSE3.wk1     corresponds to Table 3 of the print publication
                         "Calculation of commodity PSEs"

          **CSE1.wk1     corresponds to Table 4 of the print publication
                         "Summary of aggregate consumer support"
            
          **CSE2.wk1     corresponds to Table 5 of the print publication
                         "Summary of consumer support by commodity"

          **CSE3.wk1     corresponds to Table 6 of the print publication
                         "Calculation of commodity CSEs"

Where ** is the name of the country.

Only data values (not formulae) are given.  This data set was completed in 
October 1994. 



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