Public Datasets

The Afrobarometer series was developed by select Africanist scholars with funds from a variety of sources: the National Science Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Danish Governance Trust Fund at the World Bank, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Michigan State University, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The series represents a large-scale, cross-national survey research project designed to systematically map mass attitudes to democracy, markets, and civil society in more than a dozen sub-Saharan African nations, and ultimately, to track the evolution of such attitudes in selected nations over time. More specifically, the series furnishes research data on democracy, governance, livelihoods, macroeconomics and markets, social capital, political regimes and transition, conflict and crime, political participation, and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Afrobarometer surveys are conducted periodically in such sub-Saharan African nations as Botswana, Cape Verde, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The series is partly modeled on Eurobarometer studies of the last 24 years, the new Eurobarometer studies of the last ten years, the Latinobarometer, and the East Asianbarometer. It thus enables comparison across continents.

Tsogolo la Thanzi (TLT) is a longitudinal study in Balaka, Malawi designed to examine how young people navigate reproduction in an AIDS epidemic. Tsogolo la Thanzi means "Healthy Futures" in Chichewa, Malawi's most widely spoken language. New data is being collected to develop better understandings of the reproductive goals and behavior of young adults in Malawi -- the first cohort to never have experienced life without AIDS. To understand these patterns of family formation in a rapidly changing setting, TLT used the following approach: an intensive longitudinal design where respondents are interviewed every four months at TLT's centralized research center. Data collection began in May of 2009 and was completed in June of 2012. To assess changes on a longer time-horizon, a follow-up survey referred to as Tsogolo la Thanzi 2 (TLT-2) was fielded between June and August of 2015.

TLT is supported by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional information about the TLT study is available on the Tsogolo la Thanzi Center website. The website includes a timeline that is a helpful resource in understanding the organization of the TLT study.

The India Human Development Survey (IHDS) is a nationally representative, multi-topic survey of 42,152 households in 1,503 villages and 971 urban neighborhoods across India. Data were originally collected from households during 2004-2005. Interviewers returned in 2011-2012 to re-interview these same households. During both waves of data collection, two one-hour interviews were conducted covering a large range of topics including health, age, education, energy, poverty, beliefs/attitudes, and family finances. The goal of the IHDS program is to document changes in the daily lives of Indian households in a society undergoing rapid transition.

This particular data collection merges the two waves of IHDS (known as IHDS and IHDS-II) into a harmonized pattern from the perspective view points of individuals, households, and eligible women. The data are presented in three different data formats: cross-sectional, wide, and long to facilitate a broader range of analysis options. Due to the specificity of geography and inclusion of sensitive / identifying topics there is a public-use and restricted-use rendition for each of the nine data files.

This series contains data from Indonesia and Malaysia. The surveys were undertaken to investigate topic areas such as the health of women and children, fertility, family structure, economic status, and community life in these nations. The data were collected at the household, individual, and community level. The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS: ICPSR 6706), a major survey conducted in Indonesia by the RAND Corporation and Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, was supported with funds from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ford Foundation, and the World Health Organization (WHO). The IFLS covers a sample of 7,224 households spread across 13 provinces on the islands of Java, Sumatra, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi, encompassing about 83 percent of the Indonesian population and much of its heterogeneity. In addition, extensive community and facility data are also provided. Data were obtained from the village leaders and heads of the village women's groups in 321 enumeration areas and from communities around 20 schools and health facilities. The survey focuses on broad areas of fertility, family planning, infant and child health and survival, education, migration, and employment, as well as the economic and social functioning of the older population. The Malaysian Family Life Survey (MFLS) was conducted in 1976-1977 (MFLS-1: ICPSR 6170) and in 1988-1989 (MFLS-2: ICPSR 9805) by the RAND Corporation in collaboration initially with the Department of Statistics of the Government of Malaysia and subsequently with the National Population and Family Development Board (NPFDB) of Malaysia and the Survey Research Malaysia, Sdn. Bhd. It was funded with grants from the United States National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Aging, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Questions were asked to provide data for estimating the magnitude of key economic and biomedical relationships affecting birth spacing, family size, and breastfeeding patterns of families. The goal was to identify factors amenable to public policy influence that directly or indirectly affect fertility outcomes. A total of 1,262 households in 52 communities that were selected to be representative of Peninsular Malaysia were interviewed in 1976 (MFLS-1). MFLS-2 consists of 926 of those MFLS-1 households (the "Panel" sample) and a subset of adult children from those original households (the "Children" sample), as well as new samples of 2,184 women aged 18-49 (the "New" sample), and 1,357 older Malaysians aged 50 and older (the "Senior" sample), drawn from 398 communities representative of Peninsular Malaysia in 1988. The overall purpose of the data collection was to study household behavior in diverse settings during a period of rapid demographic and socioeconomic change.

The China Multi-Generational Panel Datasets project links historical and contemporary archival sources, social surveys, genealogies, inscriptions, and oral histories to create large individual level panel datasets extending from late imperial to contemporary China. The research emphasizes how despite recent profound political, social, and economic changes, many distinctive institutions and patterns of demographic behavior, stratification, and social mobility persist from China's imperial past.

IndiaStat offers a wide range of socio-economic statistical data about India. Topic areas include the economy, labor, education, health, housing, agriculture, crime, demographics, environment, and sector-specific statistics. Data are available at the national, state/union territory, and regional level.

The Annual Survey of Industries is published by the Indian Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. It contains information on characteristics of factories, employees, capital, net and gross value, benefits and funds, etc. over a period of time on an annual basis. Data available from 1981 to 2013.

ICRISAT offers district-level data on Indian agriculture and allied sectors from 1966 to 2016. Key topics include crop production, irrigation, livestock, agricultural inputs, infrastructure, environment, and product prices.

This series contains survey data from 2020-2021 aimed at understanding vaccine hesitancy in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, and Malawi. Data also address education, nutrition, and healthcare at the household level.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has partnered with the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE), and the NSF-funded project, Sub-National Data Archive System for Social and Behavioral Data (SUNGEO), to pilot a process of data acquisition, integration and curation, transformation/harmonization and dissemination. The goal of this project was to better understand distributions and scales of vaccine hesitancy in select L(M)ICs by leveraging the archiving and metadata tools at ICPSR, and the data storage, geospatial data transformation, integration, visualization, and merging techniques as part of SUNGEO.

The Global Financial Development Database is a comprehensive dataset covering financial system characteristics for 214 economies. It provides annual data beginning in 1960 and was last updated in September 2022. The database includes information through 2021 for 108 indicators, ranging from data on financial institutions, financial markets, external financial indicators, firm-level financial indicators, household-level financial inclusion indicators, and macroeconomic control variables. Examples of key indicators include outstanding international debt issues, public and private, as a share of GDP; percentage of firms using banks to finance purchases of fixed assets; and percentage of total banking assets held by foreign banks.