Environmental Data: Data of national dishes, their similarity and trad...

National dishes, migration data and data for bilateral food trade flows

The data include information on national dishes, migration data and data for bilateral food trade flows for 5 years as well as importer and exporter GDP, population, distance between most populated cities, bilateral information on Preferential Trade Agreements, common official primary langauge, common colonizer post-1945, colonial relationship for overall 171 countries. The final data set contains 145,350 observations (29,070 country pairs for 5 years)

information on ingredients of national dishes

shows information of ingredients of all national dishes of 171 countries and their names

dyadic food similarity measures, pairwise similarity and dissimilarity (chord diagram)

The figures show the distribution of two dyadic food tastes similarity measures on the base of the national dishes: (i) the Manhattan distance and the (ii) latent semantic analysis. The chord diagram shows the results for country pairs with most and less similarity on basis of the LSA-approach.