FAOSTAT/FABIO area-to-polity crosswalk — polity_area

Year-aware bridge from numeric reporting area_code values used by FAOSTAT/FABIO-derived WHEP data to periodized WHEP polity_code values.

Usage

polity_area_crosswalk

A tibble with one row per area-code/polity-period mapping. Key columns:

area_code: Numeric FAOSTAT/FABIO reporting area code.
area_name: Reporting area name.
area_iso3c: Reporting-area ISO3-like code where available.
polity_area_code: Numeric area code retained for WHEP matrix workflows.
polity_code, polity_name: Matched WHEP polity, or NA for statistical composites that are not real polities.
polity_start_year, polity_end_year: Validity interval for the matched polity.
mapping_status: "matched", "manual", "unmapped", or "not_a_reporting_area".
mapping_note: Explanation for manual or unmapped rows.

Derived from polities and inst/extdata/harmonization/regions_full.csv.