Useful Data Sources
Climate related data
Individual/household level data
Firm level data
Country level data
Nutrition data
Geo-referenced surveys, data and GIS
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
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).