Data is becoming an increasingly important part of setting up organisations and initiatives. To make sure your student initiative is effective, it is important to have researched thoroughly the problem that you are trying to solve. On this page we have compiled a list of useful resources for the background research for your initiative.
Key Data Sources:
Economy:
World trade flows and the sectoral composition of an economy:
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/
National economic indicators in terms of: debt, capital flows, and political and economic developments:
https://www.imf.org/en/Data
http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php
https://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/aiv/index.aspx?listby=c
http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28
Raw data on high-level trade:
http://comtrade.un.org/labs/BIS-trade-in-goods/
Business environment indicators:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/overview
International transactions in land:
https://landmatrix.org/en/
Environment:
Agriculture:
http://www.fao.org/statistics/en/
https://countrystat.org/home.aspx?c=TZA
Climate change:
http://energyatlas.iea.org/?subject=-1118783123
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook.html
Climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities, ocean:
https://www.wri.org/
Education:
Overview:
Unesco’s Global Education Digest http://www.uis.unesco.org/EDUCATION/Pages/global-education-digest.aspx
A visualisation of the government’s open data portal, provided by the Ministry of Education, NECTA, and National Bureau of Statistics:
educationdashbord.org
Education pass rates and schools quality:
shule.info
Comparison of education targets to results:
https://educationinnovation.org/research-and-evidence/global-partnership-education-open-data-initiative
Information on current initiatives in education:
educationinnovation.org
Development:
Development indicators:
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
https://www.usaid.gov/tanzania/newsroom/key-documents
Human development in terms of: gross national income, life expectancy, and high level education indicators:
UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/en/data
Use alongside the more detailed http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries
Data to drive policies and decision making:
https://dlab.or.tz/
Decision making for achieving the SDG’s
http://www.data4sdgs.org/
Accessible data at the community level:
http://www.datazetu.or.tz/
World trade flows and the sectoral composition of an economy:
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/
National economic indicators in terms of: debt, capital flows, and political and economic developments:
https://www.imf.org/en/Data
http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php
https://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/aiv/index.aspx?listby=c
http://www.imf.org/external/ns/cs.aspx?id=28
Raw data on high-level trade:
http://comtrade.un.org/labs/BIS-trade-in-goods/
Business environment indicators:
http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/overview
International transactions in land:
https://landmatrix.org/en/
Environment:
Agriculture:
http://www.fao.org/statistics/en/
https://countrystat.org/home.aspx?c=TZA
Climate change:
http://energyatlas.iea.org/?subject=-1118783123
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook.html
Climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities, ocean:
https://www.wri.org/
Education:
Overview:
Unesco’s Global Education Digest http://www.uis.unesco.org/EDUCATION/Pages/global-education-digest.aspx
A visualisation of the government’s open data portal, provided by the Ministry of Education, NECTA, and National Bureau of Statistics:
educationdashbord.org
Education pass rates and schools quality:
shule.info
Comparison of education targets to results:
https://educationinnovation.org/research-and-evidence/global-partnership-education-open-data-initiative
Information on current initiatives in education:
educationinnovation.org
Development:
Development indicators:
http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
https://www.usaid.gov/tanzania/newsroom/key-documents
Human development in terms of: gross national income, life expectancy, and high level education indicators:
UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/en/data
Use alongside the more detailed http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries
Data to drive policies and decision making:
https://dlab.or.tz/
Decision making for achieving the SDG’s
http://www.data4sdgs.org/
Accessible data at the community level:
http://www.datazetu.or.tz/