Carreras, AnnaUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2017-07-262017-07-262005-03-01http://hdl.handle.net/10230/426Foreign trade statistics are the main data source to the study of international trade. However its accuracy has been under suspicion since Morgernstern published his famous work in 1963. Federico and Tena (1991) have resumed the question arguing that they can be useful in an adequate level of aggregation. But the geographical assignment problem remains unsolved. This article focuses on the spatial variable through the analysis of the reliability of textile international data for 1913. A geographical bias arises between export and import series, but because of its quantitative importance it can be negligible in an international scale.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commonsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPapereconomic geographystatistical accuracyeconomic textile historyEconomic and Business Historyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess