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How-to guide for data.worldbank.org
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/how-guide-dataworldbankorgdata.worldbank.org opens World Bank databases to all users and includes World Development Indicators (WDI) -- one of the world’s most reliable and comprehensive databases on developing economies--, Doing Business, and many others.
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Data harvesting: what is it, and how can you benefit? - World Bank Blogs
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/data-harvesting-what-it-and-how-can-you-benefitThe World Bank’s data catalog curates data from trusted sources to maintain a resource that is both current and accessible to the open data community. It’s common for data catalogs to include some or all of the datasets that originate in other data catalogs.
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The Top 5 Ways to Access World Bank Data
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/the-top-5-ways-to-access-world-bank-dataIt's an analysis and visualization platform that contains collections of time series data from a variety of sources, including the WDI. You can create your own advanced queries, generate tables, charts and maps and easily save, embed, share and download them.
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Accessing World Bank Open Data in Stata
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/accessing-world-bank-open-data-stataEnglish 1 Stata is a statistical computing package widely used in the business and academic worlds. We use it at the World Bank and it’s great to see a new version of the wbopendata module that gives Stata users direct access to much of the data on data.worldbank.org.
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Electronic versus paper-based data collection: reviewing the debate
https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/electronic-versus-paper-based-data-collection-reviewing-debateelectronic data collection. These are based on some of the things we have found to be most useful in various surveys carried out as part of DIME impact evaluations. 1. Avoid mistakes before they happen. Did you hear the one about the 6-year-old with two children who was also his own grandmother?
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Improving data infrastructure helps ensure equitable access for poor ...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/improving-data-infrastructure-helps-ensure-equitable-access-poor-people-poor-countriesThe World Development Report 2021, Data for Better Lives advocates for improving fairness in the global data system by addressing inequities in the availability of data infrastructure, both inequities between people and inequities between countries.
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Light Every Night – New nighttime light data set and tools for development
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/light-every-night-new-nighttime-light-data-set-and-tools-developmentAWS is proud to make the Light Every Night data available through our Registry of Open Data on AWS. Making global nighttime imagery more widely accessible will allow researchers to process data in-place on the cloud, enabling new large-scale, long-term analyses that can help inform insights into historical trends like population change, economic development, and energy consumption.
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World development indicators 2016 - World Bank
https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/805371467990952829/world-development-indicators-2016The database contains more than 1,300 time . World development indicators 2016 World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development.
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Global Dataset on Education Quality : A Review and Update (2000-2017)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/30465The database includes mean scores and disaggregates the data by subject, level, and gender. This paper further presents a series of methodological improvements including measures of uncertainty, fixed conversion factors for greater comparability over time and year-by-year data.