annual report - Ivie

8. DATABASES
Several of the Ivie’s projects have produced databases of great interest to economic and research studies,
easing the process of decision making with the help of adequate and up-to-date information. The 14 databases
created by the Ivie, which are described below, can be accessed electronically through our website.
8.1. CAPITAL STOCK IN THE SPANISH ECONOMY AND ITS TERRITORIAL DISTRIBUTION
The Ivie and BBVA Foundation provides national series on the distribution of investment, capital stock and
capital services, spanning the period 1964-2011, in addition to data disaggregated by sectors and functions for
the Spanish autonomous communities and provinces until 2010.
The database represents a rich source of information which covers a broad period of time and offers territorial,
sectoral and functional details and by type of asset. Data for Spain has been incorporated into the STAN
(STructural ANalysis) database, the OECD Productivity Database, the EU KLEMS Database and since October
2011 to the new OECD database on productivity by industry (PDBi).
The annual updating of the database makes it a valuable tool for gaining insight into particular characteristics of
the recent cycle of accumulation and growth, and the significance of the capital endowments with which to face
the current economic situation. The data bank includes numerous dynamic graphs and up to 15,000 data by
territory.
Through the BBVA Foundation website (http://www.fbbva.es) investment and capital stock data can be
accessed on line.
8.2. SOCIAL CAPITAL
Social capital is a concept that for over a decade has attracted the attention of all social sciences and
international institutions because of its outstanding potential in the processes of development. The term social
capital highlights the role of cooperation and trust in achieving collective or economic results.
The Ivie carries out a joint project with the BBVA Foundation for the study of social capital. The developed
database consists of four sections: the first includes the evolution of social capital for the Spanish regions and
provinces from the first half of the 80s until 2005; aggregated data for Spain available from 1964, which
provides a broader historical view; and two international databases: the first one refers to the OECD countries
and takes advantage of the abundant statistical information available from this group of countries to offer the
evolution of social capital from 1970 until 2005; the second shows the evolution of social capital for an
incomplete panel of seventy-eight countries from all over the world from 1980 until 2005.
The social capital series is published in the working papers Estimación del capital social en España. Series
temporales por territorios and Estimation of Social Capital in the World. Times Series by Country, which can be
downloaded from the BBVA website, http://www.fbbva.es. The data are also available in electronic format and
can be requested at publicaciones@ivie.es.
8.3. INTEGRA
The Integra data bank is framed within Ivie’s research program with the BBVA Foundation and under the
International economic integration research area, and consists of a wide range of indicators to measure the
evolution of economies’ integration on a world-wide scale.
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