International Data Strategy

In 2006, as part of a programme of work to help develop information about secondary data sources in emerging economies, 'data discovery' teams were commissioned to determine the range of data sources that could be made available to inform socio-economic research. The countries concerned were: Brazil, South Africa, India and China.

A Synthesis report is available to download:

• ESRC Microdata - Data Discovery (PDF, 300Kb)

The four full reports can also be downloaded:

• Brazil (PDF, 531Kb)
• China (PDF, 750Kb)
• India (PDF, 181Kb) (and appendices (PDF, 315Kb))
• South Africa (PDF 1.25Mb)