Useful Data Sources

Climate related data 

• Climate change laws of the world
  
• Net zero tracker 
  
• Climate policy database
  
• Climate policy radar
  
• Climate litigation database 
  
• Environmental policy stringency
  
• OECD CRS database
  
• OECD patents
  
• Global carbon budget
  
• IMF climate data 
  
• WB climate data 
• NOAA CDO data
  

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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).

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