1. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org The World Bank - Africa Region Africa Household Survey Databank Antoine Simonpietri - Pascal Heus

2. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Household Surveys & Population Census Why do we need surveys? Study and monitor poverty Evaluate impact of policies Plan government services Produce country indicators Who are the users? Country International Organizations Researchers

3. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org The role of the Databank Guarantee data availability and preservation Develop common infrastructure Promote dissemination and use of the data Improve communication between the data producer and data consumer Country capacity building

4. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Main Issues Data collection Where do we find the data and documentation? Preservation and storage How do we centralize and archive the information? Dissemination How can we improve the use of the data? Capacity Building How do we transfer knowledge to the country?

5. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org List of surveys What? Where? Who?  ASK THE COUNTRY NSO / WORLD BANK Availability Storage condition, availability, medium?  PAPER, ELECTRONIC FILES, FORMATS, LOST Collecting How to find the information?  MISSIONS TO COUNTRY NSO Completeness Is all the information available?  DATA, REPORTS, MANUALS, QUESTIONNAIRES Data Collection Issues WORK WITH THE COUNTRY NSO!

6. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Data Archive Issues Building No standard solution exists.  IMPLEMENT CUSTOMIZED APPLICATION Standard format Which file format should we use?  MS-ACCESS DATABASE, PDF DOCUMENTS Quality How can we improve data quality?  CHECK DATA SETS (LABELS, CONSISTENCY)  PROVIDE STANDARD FRAMEWORK  TRAINING

7. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Data Dissemination Issues Clients Who are the end users.  COUNTRY, INTERNATIONAL ORG., RESEARCH Dissemination formats Which medium or channel should we use?  CD-ROMS, WORLD WIDE WEB Marketing How do we promote the existence and availability?  SEARCH ENGINES, BROCHURES, MAILING LISTS Country policies Data are usually not public domain.  ADVOCATE A MORE OPEN POLICY

8. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Capacity Building Issues Transfer the knowledge How do we provide the country with the capacity?  TRAINING, REGIONAL WORKSHOPS Transfer the technology How de we improve the infrastructure?  COUNTRY DATABANK (2001) THIS IS THE KEY! The knowledge is in the country

9. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Main Issues Revisited Data collection Where do we find the data and documentation?  WORK WITH THE COUNTRY NSO Preservation and storage How do we centralize and archive the information?  STANDARDIZED INFRASTRUTURE Dissemination How can we improve the use of the data?  WEB, CD-ROM, MARKETING Capacity Building How do we transfer knowledge to the country?  WORKSHOPS, COUNTRY DATABANK

10. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Key Differences Environment Poor infrastructure, working conditions No international network Outdated equipment Socio-economic and political situation Statistics Data / Documentation availability Data quality Dissemination policy Technology No standard software Develop communication channels

11. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org METADATA Databank Information Structure Surveys DocumentationData Sets FILES MS-ACCESS RAW SPSS, SAS, Stata, Ascii,... XML? Other? Word, Excel, Scanned (TIF),... PDF

12. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Databank Management Tools SURVEY NAVIGATOR Background infos Methodology Sampling Data Collection Content, Topics, Variables Data Set Contacts... DOCUMENT NAVIGATOR Title Authors Asbtract Publication Date Source Categories Scanning... DDI / XML CompliantDublin Core Compliant

13. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Databank Dissemination Tools WEB SITE Overview Survey Navigator Document Navigator Search Engines CD-ROM Library NSO Contacts List … Int. Organizations, researchers Intranet / Internet Metadata, documentation SDAP CD-ROMS Archive Easy to Produce Inexpensive Survey Data Documentation Manual in English / French... Country, remote users Low or no connectivity Full Data dissemination

14. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Databank Status Surveys  316 catalogued  108 with complete data and documentation Documents  2,754 documents (survey, references,…)  85% available in PDF Web site  300 Visitors / day, 150,000+ hits / month CD-ROMs  62 produced, 17 duplicated in large quantities Capacity Building  3 Regional workshops (35 participants total)  Several training session in Washington, DC Storage  13 Gb, 13,500 Files

15. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Ongoing Developments Country Databank - Pilot in Burkina, Senegal in 2001 Navigator tools - Merge existing products - Data Set Navigator (software?) - CD-ROM management - Multiple archive centers (sync,web) - Web publication tools - Runtime version for CDs - New functionalities, more XML compliant Web site - New Navigator interface - Country page - Web administration tools (Country + World Bank) Data Quality - Define Framework (Stockholm, LEG,...)

16. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Survey Navigator

17. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Document Navigator

18. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org Web Site Http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty AFRDatabank@worldbank.org

19. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org The Survey Data Analysis Package

20. World Bank, Africa Region, Africa Household Survey Databank http://www.worldbank.org/afr/poverty - Email AFRDatabank@worldbank.org The World Bank - Africa Region Africa Household Survey Databank Antoine Simonpietri - Pascal Heus