Library Guides: Gender Research and Integrated Training (GRIT): Data Portals

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Statistics (finding numbers)
This guide provides a list of resources that are useful as a starting place for users looking for topics described by numbers.

APEC Policy Partnership on Women and the Economy (PPWE)
CEDLAS and The World Bank – Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SEDLAC)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Allows you to download time series of data for national level gender indicators. Ability to breakdown by rural and urban.
Eurostat, European Commission
Central statistical coordinating unit for the European Commission.
FAOSTAT
Agricultural and Food Security statistics for many countries. Little time series data.
Gender and Land Rights Database (FAO)
GEM: Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
Gender pay gap statistics (European Union)
Global school-based student health survey (GSHS)
ILOStat Database
The central database for ILO data. Includes long time series
International Organization for Migration
leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
This is a subscription version of OECD. There is a free version of OECD, but it has limited access to data and publications. Gender statistics from OECD

Full-text book and serial publications from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Also includes many of the data sets available from the organization.

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program
Funded by USAID DHS conducts more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries focusing on health and population trends in developing countries.
Deprivation and Marginalization in Education (DME)
Data set created from the 2005 MIC.
Global Health Data Exchange
Not all of the surveys in this catalog are available.
International Household Survey Network
Catalog of household surveys. Many have data sets available. Method for limiting to gender indicators and countries.
Living Standards Measurement Study
The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a household survey program focused on generating high-quality data, improving survey methods, and building capacity. The goal of the LSMS is to facilitate the use of household survey data for evidence-based policymaking.
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS)
UNICEF assists countries in collecting and analyzing data in order to fill data gaps for monitoring the situation of children and women through its international household survey initiative the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).

International Population Census
Guide resources for finding information for international censuses
IPUMS International
Harmonized data for 1960 forward, covering 560 million people in 258 censuses from around the world.
National Agricultural Censuses
National Statistical Offices

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
Data archive of social and political data

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based, non-profit data archive located at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. It serves member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad by providing: Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies. PSU users get access to ICPSR by creating an individual account using their PSU e-mail ID. This is what identifies them as a PSU affiliate. We do not have IP access. Go to: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp - See login at top left. Note: occasionally you will need to login using a computer on campus to validate that you are still a PSU affiliate.

re3data.org
A directory of research data repositories.
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
coordinating services and access to datasets from social science archives around Europe.

AfroBarometer
an African-led, non-partisan survey research project that measures citizen attitudes on democracy and governance, the economy, civil society, and other topics.
Asian Barometer
Eurobarometer [public opinion]
Web site of the Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission.

Latinobarómetro This link opens in a new window
An annual public opinion survey that involves interviews in 18 Latin American countries

An annual public opinion survey that involves interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Topics covered include: Economy and International Trade; Integration and Trade Agreements; Political Democracy and Social and Political Institutions; Distribution of Wealth; Civic Culture; Social Capital and Participation; Environment; Gender and Discrimination; Current Topics