Introduction

I will show some examples where we can find interesting data on internet:

Tunisian Data:

http://dataportal.ins.tn

  • Step 1

Click Statistiques > Requêtes des données

  • Step 2

Click on Sélectionnez base de données

  • Step 3

Let’s say we’re interested to know the evolution of the number of students in ICT in Tunisia.

Then you pick the indicator

  • Step 4

You pick the region

  • Step 5

You pick the years

  • Step 6

Click on Contruire une vue des données

  • Step 7

Click on Voir les résultats and your data is ready to be downloaded

A tutorial video

Penn World Table: https://www.rug.nl/

It is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014.

UN Development Index: http://hdr.undp.org/

This website contains several datasets on development indexes as Human Development Index, Gender Development Index, Gender Inequality Index

Human Development Index

Gender Development Index

Gender Inequality Index

World Development Indicators

What’s the WDI?

  • https://data.worldbank.org/products/wdi

  • The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

How can we collect data from WDI website?

Microlibrary data from World Open Data

The Microdata Library facilitates access to data collected through sample surveys of households, business establishments or other facilities. These ‘microdata’ sets may also originate from population, housing or agricultural censuses or through an administrative data collection processes. The Library contains supporting documentation from censuses and surveys conducted or supported by the World Bank, as well as by other international organizations, statistical agencies and other agencies in low and middle-income countries.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data: https://www.acleddata.com/

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). collects the dates, actors, types of violence, locations, and fatalities of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. Political violence and protest includes events that occur within civil wars and periods of instability, public protest and regime breakdown. ACLED’s aim is to capture the forms, actors, dates and locations of political violence and protest as it occurs across states. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open to freely use by the public.

Afrobarometer Data: http://afrobarometer.org

This Data is obtained from regular Surveys implemented in almost 36 countries on public attitude on democracy, governance, economic conditions, and related issues.