Thursday 3 May 2012

World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean

The World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean


Available at http://sedlac.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/statistics.php the World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean is maintained by CEDLAS (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Content covers themes including poverty, trade and finance, education and health, and the millennium development goals, and the database contains information from over 200 household surveys carried out in 25 countries: Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most data covers from 1980 onwards.

The site also has a good selection of poverty maps for individual Latin American countries. 

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