Introduction to ESDS InternationalCelia Russell

Economic and Social Data Service

MIMAS

April 14th 2004University of Manchester

New developments and resources at

ESDS InternationalCelia Russell and Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data Service

Research Methods Festival, Oxford

8 July 2010

The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)

• national data archiving and dissemination service for social science data

• principal data service for UK academic social science community

• provides help and data support • available at www.esds.ac.uk• core archiving services plus four specialist data

services

Specialist data services

• ESDS Government• ESDS Longitudinal • ESDS Qualidata• ESDS International

provide: dedicated web sites data and documentation enhancements user support training

ESDS International• provides free web-based access to key

international macro level databanks

• helps users locate and acquire international micro level datasets

• promotes the use of international datasets in research and teaching across a range of disciplines

• is run by Mimas at the University of Manchester and the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex

Macro and micro data• ESDS International is split into two types of data:

• Aggregate or macro data are data that has been aggregated to a country or regional level. These types of data are typically produced by inter-governmental organisations like the UN or World Bank. All the aggregate databanks contain time series data.

• Survey or micro data are data about individuals. These types of data are typically produced by an organisation in the academic sector and looks at values and attitudes.

Macro International Data Providers

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and

Development (OECD)• United Nations (UN)• World Bank • Eurostat• UK Office for National Statistics• International Energy Agency

New additions to macro-data portfolio …

• World Bank Africa Development Indicators

• United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade)

Africa Development Indicators

• Very comprehensive source of data on Africa

• Time series data starting 1965 on 1,200 indicators for over 50 sub-Saharan countries

• Data on household welfare, demography, health, education, the regulatory environment, national accounts, trade and debt, communications, transport, energy and the environment.

• Data on Africa can be patchy – this database fills in gaps with estimates for missing data

Example from Africa Development Indicators

UN Comtrade

• country-country pair data on imports and exports of commodities and manufactured goods

• Annual data starts 1960’s• 1.1 billion records – the most

comprehensive trade database available

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Source: ESDS International World Bank web server logs

Case Studies - £50 reward!

Case Study:Comparing Early Warning Systems for Banking

Crises

• Dilruba Karim, Philip Davis, Brunel University

• Data from IMF and World Bank

• Used standard models to generated probabilities of banking crises

• Found these models gave no significant increase in crisis probabilities in the two years preceding the sub-prime episode

• Which leads us onto…http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/casestudies/

Measuring the right things

• Global financial crisis underlined need for new measures

• Inadequacies of GDP as a measure of progress of society

• Re-focus on social, economic and environmental sustainability

• Stiglitz commission reported last year

• OECD Global Project leading the way

Stiglitz commission

• Greater emphasis on the household and distribution of income

• Dashboard of indicators:– Economy

• e.g. net national income, household debt– Wellbeing

• Work and leisure • Social capital• Education• Health • Governance • Security

– Environment• e.g. adjusted net savings

The Global Project• Fundamental shift going on in the way

we measure country progress • Major worldwide collaboration

coordinated by the OECD– Intergovernmental organisations– National governments– Academics

• Advocates new framework for the measurement of societal progress

• Based on a dashboard of economic, social and environmental international indicators

• This will shape the future of international comparative data

Micro International DataESDS International holds, and guides users towards accessing key international survey datasets, including:

• European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions datasets (Eurofund collection)

• Eurobarometers (EB) • European Social Survey (ESS)• International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)• European and World Values Surveys (EVS, WVS) • European Election Study (EES) • Latinobarómetro (LB)• Young Lives: an International Study of Childhood Poverty

(YL)• Other regional barometers (Afrobarometer, Arab

Barometer, AsiaBarometer and Asian Barometer Survey)

International data via other national archives

ESDS International at the UK Data Archive (UKDA) can help users to locate and acquire data from other

archives within Europe and worldwide, using a series of reciprocal agreements with the individual

institutions.

• Religion III, 2008 • Assessing the Bipolar Nature of

Productive and Counter-productive Behaviour at Work, 2008-2009

• European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks, 2009

Selected new additions to micro-data portfolio within last 6 months

Selected new additions to micro-data portfolio within last 6 months

• Eurobarometers (4)• New Europe Barometers (5)• New Baltic Barometers (6) • New Russia Barometers (16)

• New Russia Barometer I-XVIII Trend Dataset, 1992-2009

New Eurobarometers• Eurobarometer 73.1, January - February,

2010

• Eurobarometer 72.2, September - October, 2009

• Eurobarometer 72.1, August - September, 2009

• Eurobarometer 71.3, June - July, 2009

New Russia Barometer

(Released 04/05 2010)

New Europe Barometers

(Released 06/10)

New Baltic Barometers

(Released 06/10)

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II, 1993 II, 1992-1993 II, 1995

III, 1993-1994 III, 1993-94 III, 1996

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VII, 1998 VII, 2004-2005 (07/07)

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XII, Dec. 2003 (08/07)

XIII, 2004 (08/07)

XIV, 2004-5

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XVI, December 2007 1

XVII, March 2008 1

XVIII, 2009 1

1 under embargo until December 2011

New user guides

• Guide to Afrobarometer, Arab Barometer, AsiaBarometer and Asian Barometer Survey(http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/access/abarometers.asp)

• Guide to Eurostat surveys(http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/access/eurostat.asp)

Barometers• Eurobarometer• Latinobarómetro• Afrobarometer• Arab Barometer • Asian Barometer Survey• AsiaBarometer • New Russia Barometer• New Europe Barometers• New Baltic Barometers

Resource usage ESDS International

2007/8 2008/9

Data collections acquired 110 128

Datasets delivered to users (micro)

2,113 2,028

Datasets accessed via Beyond 20/20 (macro)

(sessions) 105,587(users) 6,340

90,2366,674

Download of data specific User Guides, ESDS International (macro and micro, webreports)

220,442 320,958

International Data use

What do users want, who are they?

Russell, Murphy and Gemmell (2009): What do academics want?

Research requirements for cross-national data

http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/news/publications.asp

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Outlook – resource discovery

• Survey Question Bank (Survey Resources Network) athttp://surveynet.ac.uk/sqb/surveys/introduction.asp#cross-national

• UK longitudinal data in an international context – timeline, at http://www.esds.ac.uk/longitudinal/resources/cohorts.asp

International data: future events

ESDS International conference:

29 November 2010, London

Come along and present your work!

ESDS International provides:• Up to date data – the databanks are updated with

the latest releases• Data free at point of use (licence costs paid

centrally)• Single web interface to all the aggregate databanks

– users only have to learn it once• Helps users locate and acquire international micro

level datasets • Single portal for wide range of international

databanks, links to other resources eg freely available data

• Consistent and comprehensive documentation• Training, user support, helpful helpdesk on

international@esds.ac.uk

Web: http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ESDSInternational

Questions?