Data

Legal datasets
Network datasets
Corruption indicators

Reports

  • OCCRP – Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
  • IPAB – I Paid a Bribe

Input-based perception indicators

  • MSI – International Research & Exchange Board
  • POLITY IV – George Mason University and Colorado State University

Input-based objective indicators

  • CPIA – The World Bank: Country Policy and Institutional Assessment

Output-based perception indicators

Output-based objective indicators

  • IAG– Index of African Governance
  • GCI – The World Economic Forum
  • FW – Freedom House
  • EIU – Economist Intelligence Unit
  • DB – The World Bank: Doing Business project
  • PEFA – World Bank: Public Expenditure & Financial Accountability

Input & output-based indicators

  • OBI – International Budget Partnership
  • GII – Global Integrity (focuses on anti-corruption mechanisms)
  • IAG – The Mo Ibrahim Foundation
  • WGI – The World Bank. Measures corruption in the public and private sector.
To avoid the labeling trap dig underneath indicators to understand what each is trying to measure. Input-based indicators try to capture information about the existence and strength of laws, regulations, and institutions – anti-corruption efforts/inputs – providing key benchmarks that lead to good governance practices. Also known as rule-based indicators. Output-based indicators do not try to measure what is causing the problem nor point to potential solutions. They are useful to assess progress towards a desired objective of anti-corruption or governance reform policies. Also known as outcome-based indicators.
Governance indicators
  • CDA – Catalogo de Datos Abiertos – Colombia
  • GovData360 – The World bank GovData360
  • WB – The World Bank development indicators
  • The Fund for Peace – Failed State Index
  • AWS – Public Data Sets on Amazon’s Web Services
  • USASpending
  • ACRN – Anti-corruption Research Network
  • Observatorio – Anticorrupción y de Integridad – Colombia
  • Walk Free – fights to end human trafficking. For more information on child trafficking go to ZOE
  • OpenSecrets –  Center for Responsive Politics
  • HRI – Humanitarian Response Index (2007-2011)
Social science datasets
  • Data in Gapminder World
  • Global Competitiveness Index
  • Social Sciences Web Resources @ McMaster University
  • Gallup Polls
  • NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Google Google’s Public Data Explorer
  • APRM – African Peer Review Mechanism
  • MSI – IREX’s Media Sustainability Inde
  • OVC – Office for Victims of Crime
  • JRI – The ABA Rule of Law Initiative: The Judicial Reform Index
  • J-PAL – Poverty Action Lab: Evaluations
  • ICGG – The Internet Center for Corruption Research
  • Worldbank – Worldwide Governance Indicators
  • IQSS Institute for uotesuantitative Social Sciences
  • ICPSR – Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Sciences
  • UNdata – The United Nations Statistics Division
  • UCI SSDA – Social Science Data Archive (UC, Irvine)
  • Wolfram|Alpha – Wolfram Research
  • Gapminder
  • WHO – World Health Organization
  • SEDAC – Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center at Columbia University
  • UNESCO – UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations: Institute for Statistics
  • IMF – International Monetary Fund: Data and Statistics
  • CRINIS – Transparency International
  • UNICRI – United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
  • CESifo – The Center for Economic Studies (CES) AND the Institute for Economic Research (Ifo)
  • IADB – Inter-American Development Bank
  • DANE – Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Colombia); Catalogo de microdatos
  • DNP – Departamento Nacional de Planeación (Colombia)
  • CINEP – Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (Colombia)
  • IDESC – Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Santiago de Cali
  • MOE – Mision de Observación Electoral (Colombia)
  • ICU – International Communication Union
  • U.S. Census Bureau
  • USASpending.gov
  • FPDS – Federal Procurement Data System
  • Data.gov – The U.S. government’s open data initiative
  • Data.gov.uk – The U.K. government’s open data initiative
  • Data.go.jp – The Japanese open data initiative
  • Data.gv.at – The Austria government’s open data initiative
  • Dollars for Docs – ProPublica
  • Prescriber Checkup  – ProPublica
  • Open Data Index
  • Open Aid Data – Data for development aid
  • Sociómetro BID – Microdatos de las encuestas de hogares en Latinoamérica
  • City-Data – Data from numerous sources, from crime rates to weather patterns

Time series datasets

Geographic information datasets

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Public data for various cities in the US and Canada

A quick overview on what data cities are sharing can be found here.

Public data for various cities in Europe
Public data for various cities in Latin America and the Caribean
Public data for various countries in Africa

Kenya

Miscellaneous