World Bank’s Open Data at data.worldbank.org. In April, the World Bank announced their open data initiative and made all of their data products freely available in a new interface, which includes API access for developers, dramatically increasing the availability and reach of this information. A quick how-to guide to the new site. Overview information of…
Disability and Use of Time (DUST): 2009 Since a fascinating talk by Suzanne Bianchi here at Carleton earlier this spring, there has been a resurgence of interest in time use studies. Some new data from the PSID used time diaries to collect information from older couples about disability, time use, and well being. From the…
When looking for neighborhood information, it’s often a good idea to check local city resources such as city government, universities or colleges located in the city, and area associations. Local institutions of higher education are likely to have guides to city information on their library web sites and might even have maps and GIS data…
New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad Estimates of African-born doctors and professional nurses working in developed countries. Good for: students investigating international labor mobility and global development Primary Investigator: Michael Clemens Publishing Organization: Center for Global Development (CGD) Related Publication: CGD working paper 95 Time period: 2000
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program has created this digital library of historical documents on immigration. “Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival…
A new statistical report from the United Nations: High Commissioner for Refugees Report: “2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons,” (June 2007, .pdf format, 15p.). http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4676a71d4.pdf More statistics and data can be found from the UN Refugee Agency, on the UNHCR Statistics web site, including their annual statistical publication, the Statistical…
The IPUMS-International series now includes 17 new samples from Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Portugal, and Rwanda. Back in December, 16 new samples were added for Belarus, Cambodia, Greece, the Philippines, Romania, Spain and Uganda. For more information about using these data from the University of Minnesota Population Center, see the data releases web…
Local data (i.e. state-level or county-level) can be found from the national source, in this case the BEA, or from a local demographer’s office. Local Source County Level Income Data for Minnesota, 2005 The state demographer’s office of Minnesota prepares and publishes reports and data subsets like this one for the state of Minnesota. When…
Historical issues of the Statistical Abstract Relating to British India covering the years 1840 to 1920 have been digitized as part of the Digital South Asia Library, which contains maps, images, bibliographies, reference sources and books and journals. Good for: historical statistics on population, debt, trade, transport and infrastructure, troops deployed, health and education for…
The dataset for the Fractionalization article cited below can be downloaded in Excel format from Romain Wacziarg’s web site (scroll down the page — it’s listed under the journal articles). Alesina, Alberto et. al. “Fractionalization.” Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2003, pp. 155-194. What: measures of ethnic, linguistic, and religious fractionalization…