Introduction to ESDS International

1. Introduction to ESDS International Celia Russell Economic and Social Data Service MIMAS April 14th 2004 University of Manchester New developments and resources at ESDS International Celia Russell and Beate Lichtwardt Economic and Social Data Service Research Methods Festival, Oxford 8 July 2010

2. 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 dataservices

3. Specialist data services • ESDS Government • ESDS Longitudinal • ESDS Qualidata • ESDS International provide: • dedicated web sites • data and documentation enhancements • user support • training

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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

8. New additions to macro-data portfolio … • World Bank Africa Development Indicators • United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade)

9. 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

10. Example from Africa Development Indicators

11. 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

12. Example from COMTRADE in 2008

13. Countries of interest Source: ESDS International World Bank web server logs India United Kingdom Mexico Brazil South Africa Ghana Nigeria Kenya China United States • http://esds.ac.uk/international/news/mapusage.asp Foreign direct investmentLand useFood exportsFinal consumption expenditureAdjusted net savings

14. Case Studies - £50 reward!

15. 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/

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Micro International Data ESDS 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)

21. 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.

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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 1 under embargo until December 2011

26. 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)

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

28. Resource usage ESDS International

29. International Data use

30. 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

31. ESDS International – Usage by user status, 2008/9 (%)

32. ESDS International – Usage by user status, 2008/9 compared to 2003/4 (%)

33. ESDS International – Usage by discipline, 2008/9 (%)

34. ESDS International – Usage by discipline2008/9 compared to 2003/4 (%)

35. 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

42. International data: future events ESDS International conference: 29 November 2010, London Come along and present your work!

43. 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

44. Questions?