By: Daniel Rosehill

This document provides background context and information about V2 of a data analysis refactor providing a reformatted dataset of V2 of the Global Value Factor Database of the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (March 2025 update).

The refactor provides the original data in JSON format to support machine-readability including AI-supported data analysis and visualisation workloads. ISO-3166 values are also provided to support data enrichment and interoperability with external geo-denominated data sources. The remapping logic is recorded in the dataset.

The JSON refactor provides the GVFD as both a hierarchy which resembles the initial data presentation (per value factor) and a refactor per geographical level supporting analysis on a location-specific basis (see: country level refactor).

Full Data Lineage:

• The dataset includes geodata.json which provides the remapping logic used to map the geographic labels in the IFVI release onto both their ISO 3166 equivalents (Alpha 2) and display-suitable labels (e.g. mapping 'Bahamas, The' onto 'Bahamas'). Not all geographical entities in the IFVI dataset have ISO-3166 values (for example, non or partially recognised sovereigns). These are assigned a non_sovereign label in the geodata array. US states are grouped under us_state.

• The original dataset was stripped of the US currency identifier so that the value factors can be ingested, cleanly, as a decimal data type in SQL. All values, as noted, are denominated in US dollars. A four decimal float (constituting 65% of value factors) is recommended.

The refactoring is produced with the consent of IFVI but use of the refactored dataset is granted in accordance with the original licensing terms which are set out in this document (Appendix A) and provided in the repository.

Dataset Parameters (Refactored, V2)

Numeric Parameters: Decimals

These parameters are provided to assist with selecting a decimal value for SQL ingestion. A four decimal float is strongly advised (65% of values).

Geoparameters

Download Links

Dataset (Hugging Face)

To Clone:

git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/danielrosehill/Global-Value-Factor-Database-Refactor-V2

Links: CSV Data Sheets

Links: JSON Arrays

Suggested Use Cases

Note: please carefully review the dataset license before exploring any of these. Users are encouraged to contact IFVI and/or the author to share uses for the GVFD.

Users are advised to explore the detailed user manuals and methodology documents (both available on IFVI.org) to ensure that the value factors are applied correctly.

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