International macrodata available through the UK Data Service

Celia RussellSenior Data Specialist

ESRC Research Methods FestivalSt Catherine’s College, OxfordJuly 2014

International macrodata• time series data aggregated to

country/region • regularly updated• international governmental

organisations (IMF, OECD, IEA, World Bank)

• wide range of socio-economic topics

• available to staff and students from UK institutions of higher and further education (World Bank data is open access)

Data providers

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• World Bank

• United Nations

• International Energy Agency (IEA)

• Eurostat

International data themes

Databanks cover:

• economic performance and development• trade, industry and markets• employment• demography, migration and health• governance• human development • social expenditure• education• science and technology • land use and the environment• energy

Accessing international macrodata

• World Bank data is open to all

• other data restricted to UK Further and Higher Education

• access via Federated Access (Shibboleth) authentication

• special conditions may also apply

• delivered over the web via UKDS.stat and Beyond 20/20

• download formats include *.xls, *.csv

International macrodata - example

An idea of database size…

Around 70,000 time series

Around 2.1 million annual data values

Around 25 million monthly data values

IMF databanks

• International Financial Statistics • Government Finance Statistics• Balance of Payments Statistics• Direction of Trade• World Economic Outlook

The five major databanks produced by the IMF contain data on national accounts, trade, the balance of payments and government spending for around 190 countries. Collectively, they provide a global picture of economic development and international trade over the last 50 years.

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Example from IMF IFS: Greece

Bibliographic citation: International Monetary Fund (2013): International Financial Statistics (Edition: October 2013). Mimas, University of Manchester. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5257/imf/ifs/2013-10

More IMF data coming soon

• IMF COFER (Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves)

• IMF FSI (Financial Soundness Indicators)

• IMF Primary Commodities – 200 series, data starts 1980

• IMF CPIS (Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey)

• IMF CDIS (Coordinated Direct Investment Survey)

World Bank databases

• collects data on all aspects of human development worldwide

• annual data, designed for international comparability

• open access

Host 3 databases:• World Development Indicators• International Debt Statistics• Africa Development Indicators

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OECD data we currently host• OECD Education Statistics

• OECD Globalisation

• OECD International Development

• OECD International Direct Investment Statistics

• OECD International Migration Statistics

• OECD International Trade by Commodities Statistics

• OECD Main Economic Indicators

• OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators

• OECD National Accounts

• OECD Services Statistics

• OECD Social Expenditure Database

• OECD STructural ANalysis

More OECD data coming (next 12 months)

• Monthly Statistics of International Trade

• Agriculture Statistics• Economic Outlook: Statistics and

Projections• Employment and Labour Market

Statistics• Environment Statistics• Health Statistics• Institutional Investors Statistics• Insurance Statistics• International Development Statistics• Patent Statistics• Pensions Statistics• Product Market Regulation Statistics

• Productivity Statistics• Regional Statistics• Social and Welfare Statistics

(includes Pensions at a Glance)• Statistics on Measuring

Globalisation• Tax Statistics• Telecommunications and Internet

Statistics• Structural and Demographic

Business Statistics• Environment Statistics• Product Market Regulation

Statistics

Example from the OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

• UNIDO Industrial Statistics Databases Employment, wages and trade worldwide, broken down by manufacturing sector

– INDSTAT2, less detailed data from 1963 onwards

– INDSTAT4, more detailed data available 1990 onwards

• UNIDO Industrial Demand Supply Balance DatabasesImports, exports and apparent consumption by manufacturing sector, from 1990 onwards

• annual data, updated each year

International Energy Agency

• CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion• Energy Prices and Taxes• Energy Technology Research and Development

Database• World Energy Statistics and Balances

– Energy Statistics of OECD Countries– Energy Balances of OECD Countries– Energy Statistics of Non-OECD Countries– Energy Balances of Non-OECD Countries

IEA specialist databanks

• Electricity information

• Coal Information

• Natural Gas Information

• Oil Information

• Renewables Information

Cross-national surveys

Some tips on using the databanks

Tip 1: choose your data from the same databank or family of databanks

• comparability issues between data from different databanks, even for series with well-established standards

• theoretically identical series can have different values in different databanksTime

IMF IFS World Bank1995

8100.15 7338.41996

8608.48 7751.11997

9089.12 8256.51998

9665.7 87411999

10289.7 93012000

10625.3 9898.82001

10980.2 10233.92002

11512.3 10590.22003

12277 11089.32004

13095.4 11797.82005

13857.9 12564.32006

14480.3 13314.52007

14720.2 13961.82008

14417.9 14219.32009

14958.3 13898.32010

15533.8 14419.42011

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Tip 2: some of the databanks have better cross country comparability than others.

• OECD databanks are specifically designed for country comparisons • IMF International Financial Statistics is not.

Tip 3: Use the Discover catalogue and UKDS.Stat to

locate the data you need and get further information and documentation about the dataset

Tip 4: Examine more info and footnotes

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