Try "The Economist" for a few selected countries. I am sure they have these
data since the 1980s at least. It is not a database, yet it is a data source.
For Mexico: try the "Banco de Mexico" website. They have databases (quarterly
data).
C.
>-- Mensaje Original --
>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:31:09 -0400
>Reply-To: Political Methodology Society <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Fernando Martel Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: [POLMETH] time-seires data on inflation rate -Latin America
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>At what frequency: annual, quarterly, monthly?
>
>I would start with the IMF International Financial Statistics. Look in
both
>annual, monthly and quarterly publications. Sometimes they only have annual
>yet other times they have monthly but do not aggregate to annual - go figure.
>
>Then check World Bank's World Development Indicators, although I believe
>they only have annual.
>
>Within those institutions you might want to contact the teams putting together
>the World Economic Outlook at the IMF and Global Economic Prospects at World
>Bank (do a web search): they have masses of data drawn from many sources.
>
>Also, among IFIs, try the Inter American Development Bank.
>
>Next, try private vendors like Haver Analytics and DataStream. They typically
>have very up to date data, but not long histories. Presumably your library
>has a subscription.
>
>Finally use data posted by individual central banks in web their web sites.
>
>Advice: (1) Be warned about hyper inflation. Some series are broken into
>2 - 3 separate ones because computers - at least until recently - can't
>handle easily the large number of leading or trailing zeros, depending on
>how you re-base; (2) Do some diagnostics on the data, I have often found
>some IFIs misplace a decimal point here or there which, though random, will
>add quite a bit of unnecessary noise, so compute the differences and look
>for obvious outliers.
>
>Best,
>
>Fernando Martel
>-----------------------
>New York University
>Wilf Family Dept. of Politics
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Carola Herrera <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 2:55 pm
>Subject: [POLMETH] time-seires data on inflation rate -Latin America
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am searching for data on the inflation rate in Latin American
>> countries from 1960 to the present. I would appreciate it if you could
>
>> suggest data sources.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Carola Herrera
>>
>> Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
>> Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340
>> Santiago, Chile
>>
>>
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