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2011 Big Mac Index
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Did you take in account for the blue dollar for argentina?
No. The Economist uses the official exchange rate and the data on this site comes straight from the Economist. Although I guess Blue Dollar rates are so often used that they are included in newspapers.
Please set 1 extra column with data: minutes of work for 1 bigmac. This is the most important data about bigmac index.
Howdy,
There are quite a few different organizations that have done variations on the Big Mac Index. The “hours worked to buy a Big Mac” is certainly one of the more telling of these, bringing together Purchasing Power Parity and the cost of labor / wages. As some point I will try to incorporate that into the data but for now, here is a link to another article on the topic …
http://www.ibtimes.com/minutes-minimum-wage-work-buy-big-mac-36-minutes-us-6-hours-afghanistan-1392339
Matt