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International macrodata available through the UK Data Service
Celia Russell
Senior Data Specialist
ESRC Research Methods Festival
St Catherine’s College, Oxford
July 2014
International macrodata
• time series data aggregated to country/region
• regularly updated• international governmental
organisations (IMF, OECD, IEA, World Bank)
• wide range of socio-economic topics
• available to staff and students from UK institutions of higher and further education (World Bank data is open access)
Data providers
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• World Bank
• United Nations
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• Eurostat
International data themes
Databanks cover:
• economic performance and development• trade, industry and markets• employment• demography, migration and health• governance• human development • social expenditure• education• science and technology • land use and the environment• energy
Accessing international macrodata
• World Bank data is open to all
• other data restricted to UK Further and Higher Education
• access via Federated Access (Shibboleth) authentication
• special conditions may also apply
• delivered over the web via UKDS.stat and Beyond 20/20
• download formats include *.xls, *.csv
International macrodata - example
An idea of database size…
Around 70,000 time series
Around 2.1 million annual data values
Around 25 million monthly data values
IMF databanks
• International Financial Statistics • Government Finance Statistics• Balance of Payments Statistics• Direction of Trade• World Economic Outlook
The five major databanks produced by the IMF contain data on national accounts, trade, the balance of payments and government spending for around 190 countries. Collectively, they provide a global picture of economic development and international trade over the last 50 years.
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Example from IMF IFS: Greece
Bibliographic citation: International Monetary Fund (2013): International Financial Statistics (Edition: October 2013). Mimas, University of Manchester.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/imf/ifs/2013-10
More IMF data coming soon
• IMF COFER (Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves)
• IMF FSI (Financial Soundness Indicators)
• IMF Primary Commodities – 200 series, data starts 1980
• IMF CPIS (Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey)
• IMF CDIS (Coordinated Direct Investment Survey)
World Bank databases
• collects data on all aspects of human development worldwide
• annual data, designed for international comparability
• open access
Host 3 databases:• World Development Indicators
• International Debt Statistics
• Africa Development Indicators
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OECD data we currently host
• OECD Education Statistics
• OECD Globalisation
• OECD International Development
• OECD International Direct Investment Statistics
• OECD International Migration Statistics
• OECD International Trade by Commodities Statistics
• OECD Main Economic Indicators
• OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators
• OECD National Accounts
• OECD Services Statistics
• OECD Social Expenditure Database
• OECD STructural ANalysis
More OECD data coming (next 12 months)
• Monthly Statistics of International Trade
• Agriculture Statistics
• Economic Outlook: Statistics and Projections
• Employment and Labour Market Statistics
• Environment Statistics
• Health Statistics
• Institutional Investors Statistics
• Insurance Statistics
• International Development Statistics
• Patent Statistics
• Pensions Statistics
• Product Market Regulation Statistics
• Productivity Statistics
• Regional Statistics
• Social and Welfare Statistics (includes Pensions at a Glance)
• Statistics on Measuring Globalisation
• Tax Statistics
• Telecommunications and Internet Statistics
• Structural and Demographic Business Statistics
• Environment Statistics
• Product Market Regulation Statistics
Example from the OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
• UNIDO Industrial Statistics Databases Employment, wages and trade worldwide, broken down by manufacturing sector
– INDSTAT2, less detailed data from 1963 onwards
– INDSTAT4, more detailed data available 1990 onwards
• UNIDO Industrial Demand Supply Balance DatabasesImports, exports and apparent consumption by manufacturing sector, from 1990 onwards
• annual data, updated each year
International Energy Agency
• CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion
• Energy Prices and Taxes
• Energy Technology Research and Development Database
• World Energy Statistics and Balances
– Energy Statistics of OECD Countries
– Energy Balances of OECD Countries
– Energy Statistics of Non-OECD Countries
– Energy Balances of Non-OECD Countries
IEA specialist databanks
• Electricity information
• Coal Information
• Natural Gas Information
• Oil Information
• Renewables Information
Cross-national surveys
Some tips on using the databanks
Tip 1: choose your data from the same databank or family of databanks
• comparability issues between data from different databanks, even for series with well-established standards
• theoretically identical series can have different values in different databanks Time
IMF IFS World Bank1995
8100.15 7338.41996
8608.48 7751.11997
9089.12 8256.51998
9665.7 87411999
10289.7 93012000
10625.3 9898.82001
10980.2 10233.92002
11512.3 10590.22003
12277 11089.32004
13095.4 11797.82005
13857.9 12564.32006
14480.3 13314.52007
14720.2 13961.82008
14417.9 14219.32009
14958.3 13898.32010
15533.8 14419.42011
16244.6 14991.3
Tip 2: some of the databanks have better cross country comparability than others.
• OECD databanks are specifically designed for country comparisons • IMF International Financial Statistics is not.
Tip 3: Use the Discover catalogue and UKDS.Stat to locate the data you need and get further information and documentation about the dataset
Tip 4: Examine more info and footnotes
ukdataservice.ac.uk
Catalogue record
Support materials
• Step by step instructions on how to use the interfaces
Questions
ukdataservice.ac.uk/help
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