Contributing Catalogs
Our Central Microdata Catalog operates as a portal for datasets originating from the World Bank and other international, regional and national organizations. These datasets and the related metadata are provided by various contributing catalogs.
World Bank Contributing Catalogs
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This catalog provides the development community with research microdata used to generate some of the outputs of the World Bank Development Research Group. The Research Group, under the World Bank's Chief Economist Office, is the main research unit in the Bank.
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Enterprise Surveys provide the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies. The Enterprise Surveys collect information about the business environment, how it is perceived by individual firms, how it changes over time, and about the various constraints to firm performance and growth.
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The Global Findex is the first public database of indicators that measures people's use of financial services across economies and over time. Based on over 150,000 interviews across 148 economies, the database can be used to develop a deeper understanding of how people save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk.
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This catalog provides access to datasets underlying impact evaluations conducted by the World Bank and other agencies to generate knowledge on the effectiveness of development policies and operations. Within the World Bank, this effort involves several thematic networks, regional units and the Development Research Group.
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The LSMS is a research project that was initiated in 1980. It is a response to a perceived need for policy relevant data that would allow policy makers to move beyond simply measuring rates of unemployment, poverty and health care use, for example, to understanding the determinants of these observed social sector outcomes.
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A catalog of surveys conducted to improve our knowledge base on migration and remittances, and to provide rich and detailed information on the impact of migration and remittances at the household level. These datasets aim to increase our ability to maximize the socio-economic impact of migration and remittances.
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The service facility survey catalog provides access to data along with accompanying survey documents from facility level surveys conducted by the World Bank. Service delivery surveys are tools to measure the effectiveness of basic services such as education, health, and water and sanitation, which are fundamental for social welfare, especially for the poor.
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External Contributing Catalogs
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DataFirst is a research support unit at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, which operates a Research Data Centre and provides basic and advanced training in microdata managment and analysis. DataFirst is also an international web portal for South African census and survey data and all research output based on this data.
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The GHDx is a catalog and repository of the world's health and demographic data aiming to improve the discoverability and accessibility of health-related data. The GHDx is maintained by IHME, an independent global health research center at the University of Washington providing rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's health problems.
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IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples.
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The Monitoring and Evaluation to Assess and Use Results Demographic and Health Surveys (MEASURE DHS) project has provided technical assistance to more than 260 surveys in over 90 countries. It disseminates nationally representative data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, gender, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition.
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UNICEF supports countries to collect data on the situation of children and women through the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) program. MICS is designed to collect statistically sound, internationally comparable data on child-related indicators.
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