VI. Annex Table A: Data Appendix Staff Labor Costs Logarithm of labor costs for all graded Bank staff, not including inter-VPU cross support, for FY1998 to FY2012. Source: SAP. Consultant Costs Logarithm of labor costs for all short-term, extended-term, and vendors, for FY1998 to FY2012. Source: SAP. Cross Support Logarithm of labor costs for inter-VPU cross support (labor provided by a unit outside the FCO’s VPU), for FY1998 to FY2012. VPUs include DEC, WBI, AFR, EAP, ECA, LCR, MNA, SAR, FPD, HDN, PREM, and SDN, with an extra category for other VPUs (OPCS, LEG, etc.). Source: SAP. Other Costs Logarithm of costs besides the ones mentioned above. It includes travel, dissemination, and communication costs, for FY1998 to FY2012. Source: SAP. Internet Users Internet users per 100 people. Source: WDI. GDP per Capita Logarithm of the average GDP per capita (PPP constant 2005 international dollar) for the years 2007 through 2011. Source: WDI. Population Logarithm of the average population for the years 2007 through 2011. Source: WDI. Multi-Project Dummy for whether the policy report was financially support by more than one project codes. Multi-Report Dummy for whether the policy report consists of multiple reports. Multi-Sector Dummy for whether the policy report was multi-sectoral, as indicated by positive intra-VPU cross support. Core Report Dummy for whether the policy report is a core diagnostic report: Country Economic Memoranda, Development Policy Reviews, Poverty Assessments and Public Expenditure Reviews. CEM Dummy for whether the policy report is a Country Economic Memorandum. OMBC Dummy for whether policy report was featured within the World Bank’s Online Media Briefing Center, which launches press releases that are available to accredited journalists before the publication of the report. Inform Public Debate Dummy for whether policy report had objective of informing the public Dummy debate. Source: Business Warehouse. Income Group Dummies for whether the subject country of the policy report is a low income, lower middle income, or upper middle income country. Policy reports that are regional, global, or focus on recent IBRD graduates serve as the base. Source: World Bank. Fund Center Owner Dummies for whether a policy report is owned by one or more of the following VPUs: AFR, EAP, ECA, LCR, MNA, SAR, FPD, HDN, PREM, and SDN. Policy reports with multiple project codes could be owned by multiple VPUs. Other VPUs (WBI, OPCS, LEG, etc.), which own a small number of policy reports, serve as the base FCO. Year Dummy Dummies for whether a policy report was produced in FY2008 through FY2011; FY2012 is the base year. Note: The transformation used for the costs and income data was log(x+1). We used this transformation to maintain observations with zero values. 26