Collaborators Places I worked
Ed Barbier Ben Gilbert Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
Florence Crick Sam Fankhauser University of Wyoming
Thorsten Janus Shikha Jha Carleton University
Ara Jo Stefania Lovo Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka
Sherrill Shaffer ActionAid Bangladesh
Sakib Mahmud
Useful Data Sources
Individual/household level data
Firm level data
Country level data
Nutrition data
Geo-referenced surveys, data and GIS
Ed Barbier Ben Gilbert Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
Florence Crick Sam Fankhauser University of Wyoming
Thorsten Janus Shikha Jha Carleton University
Ara Jo Stefania Lovo Institute of Health Economics, University of Dhaka
Sherrill Shaffer ActionAid Bangladesh
Sakib Mahmud
Useful Data Sources
Individual/household level data
- World Bank LSMS: LSMS Study of the World Bank, collection of household-level surveys.
- World Bank Integrated Surveys on Agriculture: open-access cross section and panel surveys for selected countries.
- IFPRI surveys: household and community level surveys, institution-level surveys, regional data and social accounting matrices.
- DHS webpage: The Demographic and health surveys can be downloaded from this website.
- HEIDE database: Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transition Economies provided by the World Bank.
- BREAD webpage: The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development provides a list of surveys in developing countries.
- IPUMS: this website provides census microdata for social and economic research.
- Open Micro Data: a collection of links to micro data sources.
- MXFLS: Mexican family life survey.
- World Value Survey: surveys on subjective well-being available for free.
- ESDS Happiness: a list of link to main subjective well-being surveys.
- CSAE Urban Labor Force Survey: detailed panel labor force surveys for Tanzania and Ghana.
- RAND family life survey: panel data surveys for Indonesia, Malaysia and Guatemala.
- RUMiCl and IZA Urban/Migrant surveys: panel data surveys on urban households for China and Indonesia
- INEGI Mexican Urban labor survey: quarterly labor survey of urban population.
Firm level data
- CSAE datasets: The Center for the Study of African Economics (Oxford University) provides household and firm level data for Ghana, Etiophia and Tanzania.
- INE Chilean annual manufacturing survey: panel survey of manufacturing firms.
- Wharton Research Data Services: a comprehensive collection of firm-level data (including COMPUSTAT and Bureau van Dijk) available with an academic affiliation.
Country level data
- Measuring Income Inequality Database (MIID): it contains data on Gini coefficients (Authors: Klaus W. Deininger and Lyn Squire).
- Developmentdata: useful links to free developing country data.
- Data | The World Bank: World development indicators. All variables can be downloaded here. --> Get the WDI data directly into STATA format! wbopendata
- World Trade Data: a useful collection of trade data
- Country climate data: contains climate information for 208 countries.
- Bilateral migration data: data on migration flows between countries.
- Composite indicators: links to composite indicators (edited by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission).
- Gallup data: the national averages of some variables in the Gallup World Poll are available for free.
- The Macro Data guide: a collection of macro data sources.
- DataGov: governance indicator database.
- United Nations Population and Vital Statistics: a collection of statistics from population census.
- World Database of Happiness: a compilation of studies and data related to subjective well-being
- Political constraints: Data on political constraints by Witold Henisz.
- Database of political institutions: data on the quality of political institutions (in stata format).
- UNESCO statistics: indicators and raw data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication.
- WTO statistics: data on tariffs.
- Social security data: the ISSA website provides information on national social security programmes including unemployment assistance, pensions and sickness and maternity assistance.
- CIRI Human rights data protection: This is the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights.
- Database of political institutions (WB): this database by T. Beck, G. Clarke, A. Groff, P. Keefer, and P. Walsh contains data on political institutions. (Stata version available)
- WITS: useful free software of the World Bank to access COMTRADE, TRAINS, IDB and CTS databases
- Africa Infrastructure country diagnostic: contains infrastructure indicators at country and operator level for African countries. It also offers a very useful set of maps about power plant location, electricity networks, roads, etc.
- Fractionalization data: contains data on the degree of ethnic, linguistic and religious heterogeneity across 215 countries.
Nutrition data
- USDA National Nutrient Database: contains nutrient information on 8,000 foods.
- Regional Agricultural Intelligence Network RATIN: contains information on monthly Price Data for Eastern African countries.
- FOODNET Home Page: provides information on food prices in Eastern and Central Africa.
- FAO GIEWS: provides information on basic food prices in many countries.
- Food Composition Data: useful guidelines for the production, management and use of food composition data.
- FAO food composition table: food composition table for use in Africa.
- Food Security Portal: contains data on 40 indicators related to food security, commodity prices and human well-being.
Geo-referenced surveys, data and GIS
- GeoNetwork: Fao portal containing special data (shapefiles) on forestry, infrastructure, geology, climate, land cover, etc. for specific countries, region or the entire world.
- ProtectedPlanet: this website provides information on protected areas and reserves in most countries. Data can be downloaded for free as shapefile or in csv format.
- CARMA: Carma monitoring action record data on energy production and carbon emissions for power plants and power companies around the world. Data are geo-referenced and can be downloaded in csv format.
- IIASA: The harmonized soil database provides GIS maps on terrain data, soil quality and land cover
- HarvestChoice: this website contains a collection of maps about farming, land, demographics and productivity
- ECHO: NASA website providing satellite maps.
- World Health Surveys: The WHO surveys provide individual-level health data for 71 countries. The surveys were conducted in only year for each country. The data are geo-referenced.
- DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys provided geo-referenced data at cluster level.
- LSMS-ISA: the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture provide geo-referenced household-level data for seven African countries. All surveys are panel surveys although for some only the first wave is available.
- Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey: this 4-wave panel dataset of households in the Kosirai division contains information on the gps location of the households.
- FAO-Africover: this FAO websites provide full resolution GIS data on land quality and infrastructure.
- DIVA-GIS: a comprehensive collection of country shapefiles.
- IPUMS International: this website offers country-level shapefiles with administrative boundaries (highest level) to be matched with census data (also provided in the same website).