Missing subtags 003 and 172

[Phillips, Addison]

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It is just the 'economic groupings' or 'other groupings' that are excluded (199, 432, 722, 778). The codes 003 and 172 are macro-geographical or sub-regions, and are thus to be included.
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172 (Commonwealth of Independent States) is a grouping under “transition countries”, whose code is 778 (appearing in the list above). It is an economic grouping and thus forbidden. See:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm#transition

In particular, see footnote (d) which says:

d/ "Countries in transition from centrally planned to market economies" is a grouping used for economic analysis.

Whereas 003 *is* a continent and thus should have been included.

Addison

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