Highlights

Microdata Management Toolkit

Document your surveys and censuses in compliance with international standards using this specialized metadata editor. 

National Data Archive (NADA)

Publish your survey and census metadata in a searchable on-line catalog, and disseminate datasets using this free software compliant with the DDI and the OAI international standards.

Planned surveys and censuses

Information on on-going and planned surveys and censuses in developing countries.

Question Bank

A central repository of survey guidelines, with questionnaire modules, interviewer's instructions, key indicators definitions, and more.

Microdata anonymization

Tools and guidelines for measuring and reducing disclosure risk in microdata.

Technical Support

The Accelerated Data Program (ADP) provides technical and financial support to survey data documentation and dissemination, and improvement of survey methods.

Looking for Data?

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.

News & Updates

Survey data archive initiated at Institut National de l’Enfance (IHE), Haiti

Thu, 10/29/2009

The Institut National de l’Enfance (IHE) in Port-au-Prince, Haiti recently completed implementing the Global Fund 5 Year Evaluation household survey and under funding provided by ICF Macro, developed an archive using the IHSN NADA application (see: read more »

NADA installed on IFORD website (Yaounde, Cameroon, 25 October 2009-11-09)

Sun, 10/25/2009

IHSN Toolkit training in the State of Yucatán, Mexico (Mérida, October 12-16, 2009)

Fri, 10/16/2009

This mission was framed in the process of the development of the State Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) in the State of Yucatan, supported by the World Bank. The Microdata Management Toolkit Training Workshop involved 26 participants - eight from the State Secretary of Planning... read more »

Two IHSN Toolkit trainings organized in Côte d’Ivoire (Agboville, 21 September – 2 October 2009)

Fri, 10/02/2009

Two national IHSN toolkit trainings were organized in Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire, in the context of the implementation of the Accelerated Data Program in the country.

IHSN Toolkit Training in Cambodia for various Agencies of the National Statistical System (Siem Reap, 28 September – 2 October 2009)

Fri, 10/02/2009

The IHSN Toolkit Training and DDI Production Workshop for Cambodia was held in Siem Reap from 28 September to 2 October 2009. The Training was conducted by the ADP Asia team in coordination with the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) of Cambodia. Participants were 13 personnel from the... read more »

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Focus

Principles and Good Practice for Preserving Data

IHSN working paper No 003

This document produced by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social research (ICPSR) provides basic guidance for managers in statistical agencies who are responsible for preserving data using the principles and good practice defined by the digital preservation community.

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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.