Name: Data on Statistical Capacity
Creator: World Bank Group
Published: 2010-07-21

The BOOST initiative is a Bank-wide collaborative effort launched in 2010 to facilitate access to budget data and promote effective use for improved decision-making processes, transparency and accountability.

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

This collection contains datasets that may be useful for analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

The Data360 initiative aims to integrate high-value data and knowledge curated in the Bank’s verticals into a user-centered data platform. 

Data 360

The Development Data Partnership platform facilitates formation of public-private partnerships for solving development challenges with technology. Specifically, the Development Data Partnership Working Group organizes opportunities for WBG staff to work with technology companies who offer pro-bono data and resources.

Development Data Partnership

This collection contains discrepancy indexes for UN COMTRADE data that aims to capture both the frequency of missed reporting and its impact on overall recorded trade value

Discrepancy Index

A collection of datasets produced through partnership between the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) initiative.

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

Open data and analytics for a sustainable energy future.

Energy Data Info

This collection features datasets to support building policies, institutions and investments for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

Project Page: https://worldbank.github.io/GEEST/README.html 

As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, open-source Gender-related spatial data was collected for 31 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented geodatabases (GDBs) that are now ready to be explored! 
Fifty-nine spatial layers were identified and then researched for each country, covering the following categories: Demographics and Population | Renewable Energy | Energy Access | Education | Jobs and Finance | Digital Inclusion | Transportation | Safety | Amenities | Climate/Earth | Law/Policy/Government. 


However, not every country GDB contains all 59 data layers, as this was dependent on the availability of open-source data in each SIDS. Users are encouraged to check the accompanying metadata excel file for more information on the datasets in each GDB, the vintage, and the

Gender Spatial Data - Small Island States

A collection of datasets that contain geospatial data. These datasets have one or more resources in a geospatial data format.

Geospatial Datasets

Collection of useful datasets from IMF made available to Bank staff via <a href=http://mydatabank.worldbank.org>myDataBank</a>

IMF Dataset

A collection of datasets to help finance the global infrastructure gap.

Infrastructure Finance Datasets

Data and dataset subscriptions managed by the Library Network on agriculture, business, economics, energy, finance, health, risk, water, and more..

Library Databases

The LinkedIn-World Bank partnership offers data to help governments and researchers understand rapidly evolving labor markets with detailed and dynamic data. It allows leaders to benchmark and compare labor markets across the world; analyze skills, occupations, migration, and industries; and leverage real-time data to make policy changes.Visualizations for many of these data are available at <a href=https://linkedindata.worldbank.org/>linkedindata.worldbank.org</a>

LinkedIn Data for Development

Collection of merchandise trade data available to World Bank staff.

Merchandise Trade Data

This collection includes datasets associated with research organized under the Bank, <a href=http://prwp.worldbank.org target='_blank' title='Opens in a new window'>Policy Research Working Papers</a>.

Policy Research Working Papers

This collection contains data on disaster and climate risk assessments curated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Risk Data Library

This collection presents software tools and models developed by the World Bank to support monitoring, planning, programming and the economic evaluation of roads and highways works.

Road Software Tools

This spatial database, a product of the South Asia Region Chief Economist's (SARCE) Office, presents data collected from official sources and harmonized into different spatial levels. Data includes economic and environmental data across 12 topic areas, and includes data from four countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) for both 2001 and 2011.

SARCE Spatial Database

A collection of country Small Area Estimation (SAE) and Poverty Mapping that contains papers, shapefiles, and datasets produced through partnerships between the World Bank and country statistics offices.

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

This collection consists of datasets compiled and created by the World Bank Data Lab in response to a request by the Syria Economic Monitor Team to explore alternative data sources to better understand changing trends in trade and economic activity, focusing on: surface cross-border transport routes, changes in observed agricultural production, observed nighttime lights, and reported conflict.

Syria Economic Monitor

A collection of relevant datasets to support operations in Ukraine.

Ukraine datasets

Catalogue lists all the data produced under the partnership contracts between the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency

World Bank (WBG) - European Space Agency (ESA) Database

A collection of datasets to help achieve universal access to reliable and fast internet services for all.

World Bank Digital Development Data

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable energy for all.

World Bank Energy Datasets

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable mobility for all.

World Bank Transport Data

From Data to a Water-Secure World for All. World Bank Water Data surrounding the three pillars of Sustain Water Resources, Deliver Services and Build Resilience.

World Bank Water Data

The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways. The data used in the WDR2021 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2021

The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role of finance in the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it looks into the consequences of the crisis most likely to affect emerging economies and proposes a set of policies to mitigate the interconnected financial risks stemming from the pandemic and to steer economies toward a sustainable and equitable recovery. The data used in the WDR2022 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2022

The World Settlement Footprint Collection includes country datasets describing the evolution of the built-area across the globe at a ~30m resolution.

World Settlement Footprint

Consumer Price Index (CPI) serves as indicators of inflation and reflects changes in the cost of acquiring a fixed basket of goods and services by the average consumer. Weights are usually derived from consumer expenditure surveys and the CPI base year refers to the year the weights were derived.

Consumer price index base year

The Balance of Payments Manual serves as an international standard for the compilation of balance of payments statistics. The manual has evolved to meet changing economic and financial environment and analytic requirements. The first edition was published in 1948 and successive editions in 1950, 1961, 1977, 1993, and 2013.

Balance of payments manual in use

Agricultural censuses collect information on agricultural activities, such as agricultural land use, employment and production, and provide basic structural data and sampling frames for agricultural surveys. It is recommended that agricultural censuses be conducted at least every 10 years.

Agricultural census

Population censuses collect data on the size, distribution and composition of population and information on a broad range of social and economic characteristics of the population. It also provides sampling frames for household and other surveys. It is recommended that population censuses be conducted at least every 10 years.

Population census

Vital registration systems record the occurrence and characteristics of vital events pertaining to the population and serve as a main source of vital statistics. Countries with complete vital statistics registries may have more accurate and timely demographic indicators.

Vital registration system coverage

Industrial production index measures changes in industrial production and is widely used for the observation and analysis of the current economic activity. Monthly survey on industrial production of index allows identifying the turning points in economic development at an early stage.

Industrial production index

The principal sources of external debt statistics are reports submitted to the World Bank through its Debtor Reporting System by reporting countries. Data quality and coverage vary among countries and from year to year. The reporting status shows, for the latest series, whether data were used as reported (actual), data were preliminary and included an element of staff estimation (preliminary), or data are staff estimates (estimate).

External debt reporting status

Health surveys collect information on various aspects of health of populations, such as health expenditure, access, utilization, and outcomes. They typically include Demographic and Health Surveys, Core Welfare Indicator Questionnaire surveys, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, Integrated Surveys, Living Standard Measuring Surveys, Priority Surveys and other health related surveys. It is recommended that health surveys be conducted at least every 3 to 5 years.

Health survey

WHO and UNICEF collect and review data available on national immunization coverage. Then estimates on the level of immunization coverage are made by using officially reported data, survey results, scientific literature, and by taking account of potential biases and consultation with local experts. The gap between the international estimates and the government official estimates therefore suggests that the estimation method adopted by the country differs from the internationally recommended practice.

National immunization coverage

The proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles is the proportion of children aged one who received one dose of measles vaccine. A child is considered adequately immunized against measles after receiving one dose of vaccine. Immunization is an essential component for reducing under-five mortality, and it serves as a proxy to measure the coverage and the quality of the child health care system. This indicator is also related to the fourth MDG aiming at reducing child mortality.

Immunization

Births attended by skilled health staff are the percentage of deliveries attended by personnel trained to give the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period, to conduct deliveries on their own, and to care for the newborns. High maternal mortality rates in many countries are the result of inadequate reproductive health care for women and inadequately spaced births. The indicator monitors the ability of the health system to provide good antenatal and postnatal care for women and relates to the fifth MDG aiming at improving maternal health, with a target of reducing by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.

Maternal health

The methodology indicator measures a country’s ability to adhere to internationally recommended standards and methods. The methodology score is calculated as the weighted average of 10 underlying indicator scores. The final methodology score contributes 1/3 of the overall Statistical Capacity Indicator score.

Methodology assessment of statistical capacity (scale 0 - 100)

The Statistical Capacity Indicator provides an overview of the capacity of a country's national statistical system based on a diagnostic framework thereby assessing three dimensions: Methodology, Source Data, and Periodicity and Timeliness.

Overall Average

The periodicity and timeliness indicator assesses the availability and periodicity of key socioeconomic indicators. It measures the extent to which data are made accessible to users through transformation of source data into timely statistical outputs. The periodicity score is calculated as the weighted average of 10 underlying indicator scores. The final periodicity score contributes 1/3 of the overall Statistical Capacity Indicator score.

Periodicity and timeliness assessment of statistical capacity (scale 0 - 100)

Government finance accounting concept describes the accounting basis for reporting central government financial data. For many countries government finance data have been consolidated into one set of accounts capturing all the central government's fiscal activities. Budgetary central government accounts do not necessarily include all central government units, the picture they provide of central government activities is usually incomplete.

Government finance accounting

Import and export price indexes measure changes in the price of goods and services in international trade. They are used to deflate the value of imports and exports. Import price index is also used as an indicator of future domestic inflation.

Import and export price indexes

UNESCO Institute of Statistics compiles data on education based on official responses to surveys and from reports provided by education authorities in each country. As the recommended periodicity of these data is annual, annual reporting from countries is considered a good practice.

UNESCO reporting

Poverty surveys collect data on household income, consumption and expenditure, including income in kind. They typically include income, expenditure, and consumption surveys, household budget surveys, Integrated Surveys, Living Standard Measuring Surveys, and other poverty related surveys. It is recommended that poverty surveys be conducted at least every 3 to 5 years.

Poverty survey

The Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) was established by the IMF for member countries that have or that might seek access to international capital markets, to guide them in providing their economic and financial data to the public. Although subscription is voluntary, the subscribing member needs to be committed to observing the standard and provide information about its data and data dissemination practices (metadata). The metadata are posted on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board. The SDDS is expected to enhance the availability of timely and comprehensive data and improve the functioning of financial markets.

Special Data Dissemination Standard

Collection of the “Proportion of population below US$1.25 a day” indicator was replaced with the new indicator “Proportion of population below US$1.90 a day” by WDI in 2015, the SCI will now use the “Proportion of population below US$1.90 a day” indicator instead, to measure the SCI’s Income poverty indicator, under the periodicity dimension. The previous indicator “Proportion of population below US$1.25 a day” measured the percentage of the population living on less than $1.25 a day at 2005 international prices. The new indicator “Proportion of population below US$1.90 a day” measures the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Income poverty

Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age, also known as prevalence of child malnutrition (weight for age), is the percentage of children under-five whose weight for age is less than minus two standard deviations from the median for the international reference population ages 0 to 59 months. The data are based on the World Health Organization’s new child growth standards released in 2006. Child malnutrition is linked to poverty, low levels of education, and poor access to health services. Sufficient and good-quality nutrition is therefore critical for development, health, and survival of current and succeeding generations. This indicator monitors nutritional status and health in populations and relates to the first MDG aiming at reducing poverty and hunger.

Child malnutrition

Under-five mortality rate is the probability that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to current age-specific mortality rates. The probability is expressed as a rate per 1,000. The indicator measures child survival. Survival of a child is closely linked to the provision of primary health-care services; but poverty, malnutrition, a decline in breast-feeding, maternal education, use of improved water, and inadequacy sanitation and health facilities are all associated with high child mortality. The indicator relates to the fourth MDG calling for reducing child mortality.

Child mortality

HIV prevalence at any given age is the difference between the cumulative numbers of people who have become affected with HIV up to this age and the number who died, expressed as a percentage of the total number alive at this age. The basis of measuring infection is the incidence of HIV among people aged 15-49. HIV/AIDS is one of the world’s most important killers and has its greatest impact on poor countries and poor people. This indicator relates to MDG number six to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.

HIV/AIDS

The indicator is defined as the ratio of the gross enrollment rate of girls to boys in primary and secondary education levels in both public and private schools. Women have an enormous impact on the well-being of their families and societies, but their potential is sometimes not realized because of discriminatory social norms, incentives, and legal institutions. Although their status has improved in recent decades, gender inequalities persist. Education is one of the most important aspects of human development, and eliminating gender disparity at all levels of education would help to increase the status and capabilities of women. This indicator provides a measure of equality of educational opportunity and relates to the third MDG that seeks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.

Gender equality

Primary completion rate (PCR) is the number of students successfully completing the last year of (or graduating from) primary school in a given year, divided by the number of children of official graduation age in the population. Because of difficulties with developing data based on this definition, data analysis is generally based on the PCR proxy indicator which is the number of children reaching the last year of primary school (as defined by a country) net of repeaters. The indicator, which monitors education system coverage and student progression, is intended to measure human capital formation and school system quality and efficiency and relates to the second MDG to achieve universal primary education.

Primary completion

Collection of the “Access to an improved water source” indicator was discontinued by the WDI in 2018, the SCI will now use the “People using at least basic drinking water services (% of population)” indicator instead, to measure the SCI’s access to water indicator, under the periodicity dimension. The previous indicator “Access to an improved water source” measured the percentage of the population that could obtain at least 20 liters per person per day from an “improved” source that was within one kilometer of the user’s dwelling. The new indicator "percentage of people using at least basic water services" encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services.  Basic drinking water services is defined as drinking water from an improved source, provided collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a round trip.  Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.

Access to water

GDP per capita is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output, divided by mid-year population. Growth is calculated from constant price GDP data in local currency. Sustained economic growth increases average incomes and is strongly linked to poverty reduction. GDP per capita provides a basic measure of the value of output per person, which is an indirect indicator of per capita income. Growth in GDP and GDP per capita are considered broad measures of economic growth.

Per capita GDP growth

The source data indicator reflects whether a country conducts data collection activities in line with internationally recommended periodicity, and whether data from administrative systems are available. The source data score is calculated as the weighted average of 5 underlying indicator scores. The final source data score contributes 1/3 of the overall Statistical Capacity Indicator score.

Source data assessment of statistical capacity (scale 0 - 100)

National accounts base year is the year used as the base period for constant price calculations in the country's national accounts. It is recommended that he base year of constant price estimates be changed periodically to reflect changes in economic structure and relative prices.

National accounts base year

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East Asia and Pacific

Europe and Central Asia

Middle East and North Africa

South Asia

The Data on Statistical Capacity website provides information on various aspects of national statistical systems of developing countries, including a country-level statistical capacity indicator.The Statistical Capacity Index (SCI) has been replaced by the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI), which provide a more comprehensive framework for measuring the performance of national statistical systems. For further details, please visit <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/statistical-performance-indicators/about-spi#4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/statistical-performance-indicators/about-spi#4</a> to learn about the differences between the SCI and its successor.

Data on Statistical Capacity

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