Greetings,
I am very pleased that this project has data available to the public for research. I was wondering if there was a document describing the fields for level 0 administrative areas. Some of the field names are descriptive enough to ascertain their meaning, but an explanation would be quite useful. Thanks again.
Explanation of fields from level 0
Hope this helps - its a list of sites where you can get info on the relevant codes and acronyms.
These were compiled in 2007 and some of the country groups may have changed. I would suggest that if you need to use one of these fields then you double check with a few sources first (not just wikipedia).
But the information in the level 0 file should give you a very good start.
FIPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIPS_country_codes
ISO2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
ISO3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3
ISON http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/codes/country.htm
CIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States
Transition - transition countries on verge of joining the European Union, possibly out of date
OECD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecd
WBREGION http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/CLASS.XLS
WBINCOME http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/CLASS.XLS
WBDEBT http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/CLASS.XLS
WBOTHER http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/CLASS.XLS
CEEAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_the_Central_African_S...
CEMAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Monetary_Community_of_Central_...
CEPLG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Community_of_the_Great_Lakes_Count...
COMESA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMESA
EAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Community
ECOWAS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecowas
IGAD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGAD
IOC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_Commission
MRU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_River_Union
SACU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SACU
UEMOA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEMOA
UMA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Maghreb_Union
PALOP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALOP
PARTA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Regional_Trade_Agreement
CACM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_Common_Market
EurAsEC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Community
Agadir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadir_Agreement
SAARC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooper...
ASEAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations
NAFTA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
GCC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_Council_for_the_Arab_States_of_...
CSN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_Community_of_Nations
CARICOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Community
EU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
CAN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_Community_of_Nations