The Accelerated Data Program (ADP) provides technical and financial support to survey data documentation and dissemination, and improvement of survey methods. 
The IHSN does not have ownership and is not mandated to disseminate country microdata. But we maintain a central survey catalog, and provide links to national or international databanks. The DDI alliance (www.ddialliance.org) has launched the latest version of the Codebook: version 2.5. The IHSN was instrumental in this upgrade and the relevant IHSN tools will take full benefit of this version.
The PARIS21 Secretariat and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) are organizing a training workshop on the use of the IHSN Microdata Management Toolkit. This workshop is conducted in the context of the joint OECD/PARIS21 – World Bank Accelerated Data Program (ADP,... read more »
The World Bank Microdata Library is available at : http://microdata.worldbank.org/
It is a service established to facilitate access to microdata that provide information about people living in developing... read more »
The second "Regional Training on the Documentation and Archiving of Agricultural Censuses and Surveys” was held in Manila, Philippines, 21-25 February 2011. In line with the objective of the first workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the workshop was organized to train participants from... read more »
The first "Regional training on the documentation and archiving of Agricultural Censuses and Surveys” was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7-11 February 2011. The objective of the workshop was to train participants from 15 countries on the use the Microdata Management Toolkit for the documentation... read more »
In all countries, data producers are faced by expanding demand for microdata. Determining the best way to disseminate these data is a challenge. The challenge is technical, as data producers have to implement procedures for the documentation, cataloguing and dissemination of the data. The challenge is also legal and ethical.
The IHSN is a partnership of international organizations seeking to improve the availability, quality and use of survey data in developing countries. This informal network was established as a recommendation of the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics.
The IHSN is served by a light Secretariat managed by the World Bank Development Data Group and the Paris21 Secretariat at OECD.
