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Tool 30: Useful Sources of Secondary Data
International survey programs
SURVEY
ORGANIZATION/URL
TYPES OF DATA
AVAILABLE
Demographic and
Health Survey
(DHS)
Measure DHS
www.measuredhs.com
Population, health, and
nutrition indicators
Malaria Indicator
Survey (MIS)
Measure DHS
www.measuredhs.com
Malaria prevention and
treatment, biomarker
testing for malaria and
anemia
Multiple Indicator
Cluster Survey
(MICS)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
www.unicef.org/statistics/index_24302.html
Health, education, child
protection, and
HIV/AIDS
Pan-Arab Project
for Family Health
(PAPFAM)
Arab League
www.papfam.org
Social, economic,
demographic, and health
indicators
Reproductive
Health Survey
(RHS) and Young
Adult Reproductive
Health Survey
(YARHS)
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/Global/Surveys.htm
Reproductive health
indicators
Service Provision
Assessment (SPA)
Survey
Measure DHS
www.measuredhs.com
Characteristics of health
facilities and services
available in a country
International databases
DATABASE
ORGANIZATION/URL
TYPES OF DATA
AVAILABLE
AIDSinfo
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
www.unaids.org/en/dataanalysis/datatools/aidsinfo
HIV/AIDS indicators,
including epidemiology,
prevention and treatment
services
Childinfo
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
http://www.childinfo.org/
Child survival and health,
maternal health,
immunization,
communicable diseases,
water and sanitation,
education, HIV/AIDS
Countdown
to 2015
country
profiles
Countdown to 2015 collaboration
http://www.countdown2015mnch.org/country-profiles
Maternal, newborn, and
child survival indicators
presented in country
profiles
Data Catalog
World Bank
http://data.worldbank.org
Development indicators
relating to agriculture,
education, gender, health,
and many other areas
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DATABASE
ORGANIZATION/URL
Support Materials
TYPES OF DATA
AVAILABLE
DataFinder
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
www.prb.org/DataFinder.aspx
Health, education,
demographics, and other
topics
Gapminder
World
Gapminder Foundation
http://www.gapminder.org/data/
Health and development
indicators, with tool to
visualize and compare
trends
Global Atlas
of the Health
Workforce
World Health Organization (WHO)
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas
Number, density (per
1,000 population), and
demographic
characteristics of health
workers, by occupational
category
Global
Health
Observatory
World Health Organization (WHO)
www.who.int/gho/database/en
Mortality, burden of
disease, nutrition, child
health, maternal and
reproductive health,
immunization, HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria,
water and sanitation, noncommunicable diseases,
health systems, violence
and injuries, etc.
GLOBOCAN
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
http://globocan.iarc.fr
Cancer incidence,
mortality, and prevalence
International
Data Base
US Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/in
formationGateway.php
Demographic indicators
Millennium
Development
Goals (MDG)
Indicators
United Nations Statistics Division
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Default.aspx
More than 60 indicators
measuring progress
towards the MDGs
World
Factbook
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/
History, people,
government, economy,
geography,
communications,
transportation, military
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