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Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

Data and indicators from Latin America & the Caribbean

View: Country general dashboards

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

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Learn about the platform

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

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Catalog of availability indicators

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Why are you looking for this data?

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

For a quick diagnosis, consultation, or presentation

For an initial diagnosis of gender and diversity

For a more robust analysis of development gaps

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

Additional Resources

Catalog of availability indicators

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What type of analysis do you want to perform?

View: Country general dashboards

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

I want to compare and/or manipulate indicators in Excel

I want to incorporate libraries/packages of indicators in STATA, R or Python

I want to conduct a deep analysis based on microdata

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

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Catalog of availability indicators

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What does Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean offer me?

Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

View: Country general dashboards

View data by country

Disaggregate by gender and diversity

Download the selection of key indicators

Access libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Analyze micro-data

Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean is a platform that brings together interactive dashboards, socioeconomic indicators, and databases from population censuses and surveys of the 26 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that are part of the IDB.

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Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

It addresses areas that are fundamental for the work of the IDB, for example: poverty, demography, health, education, social protection, labor market, and migration. It also allows identifying gender and diversity gaps.

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

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Catalog of availability indicators

From a general overview of a country or a topic, to a harmonized microdata set for that specific analysis, find what you need. Explore the possibilities on the side.

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Visualize data by country

Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

What is it?

Find data quickly for diagnoses, presentations, or reports

View: Country general dashboards

They are interactive dashboards for each country in Latin America and the Caribbean organized into six themes: demographics, housing, poverty and inequality, education, employment and social security, social protection, and health.

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

What is the source?

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Indicators estimated from household surveys

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

How to access?

Additional Resources

The dashboard is public and accessed from the page of Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean. You just have to click on "General data by country"

Catalog of availability indicators

Check how to use the Country Dashboard and explore its various filters.

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Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

What is it?

Incorporate a gender and diversity perspective into data analysis

View: Country general dashboards

It is an interactive dashboard for each country with key indicators on demographics, employment, education, and housing that can be disaggregated by gender, race, ethnicity, and disability status.

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

What is the source?

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Indicators estimated from population censuses

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

How to access?

The dashboard is public and accessed from the Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean page. Click on "Gender and Diversity by country".

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Catalog of availability indicators

Check how to navigate the Gender and Diversity Dashboard.

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Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

What is it?

Access over 100 selected indicators

View: Country general dashboards

It is a platform for downloading indicators that can be viewed on the general country dashboard and the gender and diversity dashboard. On this portal, you can select the indicators of your interest and download them in .csv, .rdf, .rww, .xml, and .tsv formats.Additionally, you can find disaggregation by gender, ethnicity, race, and disability status.

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

How to access?

The dashboard is public and can be accessed from the Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean page. Click on "Download indicators".

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Catalog of availability indicators

Check how to access the collection of indicators, how to select the ones that interest you, and download them

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Download the libraries in R, Stata, or Python

Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

What is it?

Access indicators through open-source packages

They are open-source packages in R, Stata, and Python to consult all the Social Data indicators from all countries in the region. There are more than 500 available indicators! You can also consult them for several years and disaggregate by gender, age, income level, migration status, among others.

View: Country general dashboards

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

How to access?

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

The packages are in the BID's GitHub code repository and you can directly access them using these links:R, STATA or Python.

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

How to find indicators?

Additional Resources

In this directory you can check the availability and the name that identifies the indicator.

Catalog of availability indicators

Get to know the documentation of the packages

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Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

Check the microdata sets to perform specific analyses.

What is it?

View: Country general dashboards

A centralized repository of data with several data collections, where we can find a collection of survey and census microdata used as a source for the indicators. The collections are "Population and Housing Censuses" for censuses and "Household Socio-Economic Surveys" for surveys.

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

How to access?

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

Access to Data Lake requires authorization. If you have an IDB Group email, access normally through this link. If you are an external user, request access through the email scldata@iadb.org.

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Catalog of availability indicators

Learn how to access a microdata set in the Data Lake

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Indicators Dashboard

Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

Check availability, find identifiers, and more

What is it?

View: Country general dashboards

An interactive dashboard that indicates the availability of over 500 indicators gathered in Social Data, as well as the data sources used for their calculation

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

How to access?

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

The dashboard is public and can be accessed from this link.

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

Additional Resources

Catalog of availability indicators

Check how to navigate through the Indicators Dashboard

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Other platforms

Data and indicators from Latin America and the Caribbean

Check out other platforms that are part of the Data and Indicators ecosystem of Latin America and the Caribbean.

What is it?

View: Country general dashboards

They are platforms in which we can find specialized indicators on the following topics: • LABOR: Labor Market and Social Security Information System, Labor Observatory • EDUCATION: Education Statistics Portal of the Education Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (CIMA) • MIGRATION: Citizen perceptions and Migration Laboratory , DATAMIG

Disaggregate: Dashboards by gender and diversity

Download: Selected indicators

Access: Libraries in R, Stata, and Python

Analyze microdata: Harmonized microdata sets

Additional Resources

How to access?

Catalog of availability indicators

The dashboard is public and is accessed from the Latin America and the Caribbean Data and Indicators page. You just have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and explore the different specialized platforms.

Other social indicator platforms

Questions and technical issues

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

Check the availability of indicators using this resource.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

The indicator you are looking for may not have been constructed yet, but you could build it using the harmonized or non-harmonized survey and census databases. Check the survey and census questionnaires to see if the information was collected. For this, navigate through the microdata.

It may be that the information you are looking for has not been collected in the censuses or household surveys that we use as sources. You can check the availability of indicators through this dashboard, by clicking on "Availability". Learn more about the indicators dashboard on this page of the tutorial.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

Check the availability of indicators using this resource.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

Check the availability of indicators using this resource.

Questions & Technical Issues

If you have any questions or technical issues, write to us at scldata@iadb.org and we will help you.