Source register / checked November 1, 2026
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46 sources mapped. Downloaded and candidate sources are distinguished. Public accessibility is not a blanket redistribution license.
| Source | Variables | Coverage | Ingestion status | Limits and reuse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Development Indicators Core | Health, poverty, services, jobs, pollution, savings, population | Global, series-specific; actual coverage audited | Downloaded API series | Provider coverage is not same-year coverage; source estimates and survey observations differ. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| Poverty and Inequality Platform Distribution | Income/consumption distributions, poverty curves, survey means, welfare concepts | Survey-based; coverage and reference years vary | Public platform/API; adapter pending | Never mix income and consumption or PPP vintages without explicit harmonization. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| World Inequality Database Distribution | Bottom-50 and top-10 shares, distributed income and wealth | Country-series dependent | Public downloads; adapter pending | Check quality grades. Some series are modeled or imputed; wealth is not income. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| WIID and WIID Companion Distribution | Standardized inequality, percentiles, national/global distributions | WIID September 2026: 201 countries/economies including historical entities; latest year varies | Public downloads; adapter pending | Main WIID can contain multiple incomparable observations per country-year. Companion harmonizes but models and revises. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| Changing Wealth of Nations Wealth stocks | Produced, human, natural capital; net foreign assets; real wealth per person | 2024 edition: 151 countries, 1995–2020 | Public bulk download; adapter pending | Lagged balance sheet. Human capital valuation reflects earnings; increasing wealth is not sufficient for ecological sustainability. Catalog specifies CC BY 4.0; retain attribution and methodology. |
| International Comparison Program Prices | PPPs, price levels, expenditure components | Benchmark 2021 and revised/extrapolated series | Public DataBank; adapter pending | Use category-appropriate PPPs. Do not mix current and constant international dollars. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| Global Findex 2025 Resilience | Emergency funding, expense coverage after income loss, savings, borrowing, connectivity; subgroup breakdowns | Waves 2011, 2014, 2017, 2021, 2024; almost 300 indicators | Official country CSV link identified; download returned HTTP 403 in this environment | Emergency money is not liquid net wealth. Preserve question, adult denominator, amount, horizon and difficulty categories. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| ASPIRE social protection Resilience | Program coverage, adequacy, benefit incidence | Provider reports 140 countries; survey-specific dates | Public database/download link; adapter pending | Program types and eligibility differ; coverage alone does not establish adequate protection. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| World Happiness Report Subjective wellbeing | Three-year life evaluations, confidence intervals, explanatory contributions | Public Figure 2.1 series from 2012 onward; country coverage varies | Downloaded official WHR 2026 Figure 2.1 workbook on 2026-11-02; 2,116 historical source rows. Life evaluation and confidence limits ingested; explanatory contributions not treated as survey measures. | Not daily joy. Six explanatory factors do not construct the happiness score. Confidence interval is not within-country inequality. Free published summary download is stated; additional Gallup data require separate access. Verify public redistribution terms. |
| Gallup public-use datasets Social experience | Client-funded public survey modules such as trust and science | Module-specific country and wave coverage | Public dataset catalog; individual terms vary | Public modules do not grant access to the full Gallup World Poll. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| Global Flourishing Study Flourishing | Life evaluation, meaning, relationships, health and other flourishing responses; panel changes | Selected study countries, not globally exhaustive; annual waves | COS says waves 1–2 nonsensitive available without preregistration; wave 3 access via preregistration | Sensitive data need ethical approval; study and panel weights matter; do not use perturbed example data as real estimates. Dataset/request agreements apply. Website CC BY does not automatically clear every underlying dataset. |
| World Values Survey Values and social trust | Life satisfaction, trust, autonomy, belonging, attitudes | Wave 7: 64 surveys, 2017–2022; longitudinal waves available | Registration and agreement required; not downloaded | Country/wave survey designs and meanings vary; no automatic website redistribution. Published conditions: nonprofit use, proper citations, and no redistribution of data files. Commercial deployment not cleared. |
| WHO GHO and Global Health Estimates Health | Healthy life expectancy, disease burdens, health systems, health outcomes | Indicator-specific global coverage | Documented public OData API; specialist adapter pending | Pin a release. Revisions can change historical HALE; retain source uncertainty. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| WHO/UNICEF JMP Essentials | Water, sanitation, hygiene by total/urban/rural, quintiles and subnational areas | Country and subgroup coverage depends on service level and survey | Documented keyless JSON/CSV API; basic services already obtained via WDI | Basic and safely managed are different. Quintiles and national annual estimates are not interchangeable. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| FAO Food Insecurity Experience Scale Food | Moderate/severe and severe food insecurity | Global estimates; annual or multiyear presentation varies | One moderate/severe series downloaded via WDI; FAO adapter pending | Experiential insecurity differs from undernourishment; align time window and population. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| FAO cost and affordability of a healthy diet Food and prices | Healthy diet cost, unaffordability, food group costs | Country-year estimates; opened metadata lists 2017–2024 and may lag newer releases | Public FAOSTAT downloads; adapter pending | Affordability includes an allowance for nonfood needs; do not subtract those needs twice. Opened metadata specifies CC BY 4.0; confirm the chosen release and cite it. |
| ILOSTAT Work | Working hours, excessive hours, informality, underemployment, NEET, earnings | Global; survey and modeled-series coverage vary | Downloaded direct ILO modelled weekly-hours series and metadata on 2026-11-02. Sex breakdowns retained; regional aggregates and 2026–27 projections excluded. | Unemployment and reduced paid work are not leisure or freedom. Preserve age, sex and employment denominators. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| OECD Time Use Database Time | Paid work/study, unpaid work, personal care, leisure, other time use | Provider reports 30 OECD countries; survey dates differ | Public dataset link; adapter pending | 15–64 harmonized sample; diaries, activity classification and survey years affect comparability. Country means cannot recover time inequality. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| OECD Affordable Housing Database Housing | Housing costs over income, overcrowding, warmth, homelessness | OECD, partners and EU; indicator-dependent | Public indicators and raw tables; adapter pending | Renters/owners and income concepts differ; homelessness definitions are particularly heterogeneous. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| OECD How’s Life well-being data Wellbeing | Wellbeing, inequalities, social connection, resources for future wellbeing | OECD and selected partner countries; time series and survey dates vary | Public Data Explorer; adapter pending | Some relationship and time-use indicators are much older than economic indicators. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| UNDP human development data Capabilities | HDI, IHDI, gender indices, schooling, planetary-pressure adjustments | Current HDR components listed for 1990–2023 | Public downloadable tables and DataPRISM documentation; adapter pending | Use components rather than stack HDI, GDP and schooling as independent measures. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| UNDP/OPHI Multidimensional Poverty Index Joint deprivation | Joint deprivation, incidence, intensity, subnational estimates | Developing-country survey coverage; 2026 tables listed | Public statistical tables; household microdata access is separate | Survey year is not publication year. MPI is a deprivation measure, not full prosperity. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| UNESCO UIS Education | Learning, completion, participation, teachers, science and culture | International, indicator-specific | Current API and bulk downloads documented; adapter pending | Legacy UIS SDMX API is no longer current. Gross enrollment may exceed 100%. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| World Bank Human Capital indicators Learning | Learning-adjusted schooling, child survival and human capital components | Country and edition dependent | Public portal; adapter pending | Expected schooling of children differs from adults’ attained learning; harmonized tests require methodology review. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility Opportunity | Educational mobility, parent-child persistence, cohort and gender comparisons | 153 economies; birth cohorts 1940–1989; surveys 1991–2017 | Public CSV/Stata; adapter pending | Historical cohorts are not current children. Upward attainment has ceiling effects; education mobility is not income mobility. Catalog specifies CC BY 4.0. |
| Women, Business and the Law 2026 Opportunity | Legal frameworks, supportive frameworks, enforcement perceptions | 190 economies; 2026 edition describes rules current to Oct 2025 | Public Excel/Stata and reproducibility packages; adapter pending | Legal equality differs from lived enforcement. Preserve methodology-consistent historical backcasts. World Bank catalog specifies CC BY 4.0 for the selected dataset. |
| V-Dem v16 Freedom | Civil liberties, participation, equality and institutional measures with uncertainty | Country-year, version 16, March 2026 | Public downloadable packages; adapter pending | Compare within one release; expert-based uncertainty matters. Provider specifies CC BY-SA 4.0, including attribution and share-alike requirements for derivative products. |
| Worldwide Governance Indicators Institutions | Six governance estimates, absolute scores, standard errors | More than 200 economies; revised 1996–2024 series | Downloaded current GOV_WGI API estimates, absolute scores and standard errors. | 2025 methodology revision recalculates history. Absolute scores are not percentile ranks. Catalog specifies CC BY 4.0. |
| UCDP organized violence country-year v26.1 Safety | Organized violence and best/low/high death estimates | 1989–2025; downloaded country-year table has 7,132 rows | Downloaded official country-year ZIP and inspected columns | Organized violence is not ordinary homicide; country coding must be mapped explicitly. Do not add overlapping death subtotals. Source supplies citation requirements; dataset-specific redistribution license still to confirm. |
| IDMC Global Internal Displacement Database Safety and shocks | Year-end displaced people and annual displacement movements | 2008–2025; coverage depends on metric and evidence | Public downloads; API requires a key | Movements are events and can count a person repeatedly; they cannot be treated as unique people. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| ND-GAIN Country Index 2026 download Climate resilience | Vulnerability, exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, readiness, raw and imputed components | Downloaded main index: 192 country rows, 1995–2024; 217 CSV files in ZIP | Downloaded and inspected official ZIP | Raw.csv, input.csv and score.csv are different representations; readiness overlaps with institutions and income. Provider calls it free and open-access and gives citation; exact chosen-file redistribution terms still to confirm. |
| Global Carbon Budget Ecological pressure | Territorial and consumption-based CO2, transfers, land-use change | Release and accounting scope dependent | Public files and FAIR-use statements; adapter pending | Consumption and production footprints differ. CO2 is not all greenhouse gases or complete ecological pressure. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| UNEP International Resource Panel material flows Ecological pressure | Material footprint, extraction, direct and indirect trade | Provider reports more than 200 countries/regions, 1970–2024 | Public database; adapter pending | Modeled supply-chain footprints differ from direct domestic material consumption. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| UN-Habitat Urban Indicators Place | Housing, public space, urban services, transport access | City/urban coverage varies | Public portal; adapter pending | A sampled city is not its whole country. Boundary choice changes comparisons. Review dataset-specific reuse and redistribution terms before public release. |
| Copernicus Global Human Settlement Layer Place | Gridded population, built-up area, settlement classes | Global, release- and epoch-dependent | Open geospatial downloads; derived aggregation needed | Separate observed, interpolated and projected epochs; grid resolution affects access estimates. Provider authorizes reuse with source acknowledgment; retain product-specific citation. |
| EOG VIIRS nighttime lights Place and service reliability | Radiance, valid observations, night-light changes | Monthly/annual products; product-specific geographic coverage | Public products; some download flows may require registration | Clouds, lighting technology and flaring affect radiance. Missing coverage is not darkness and radiance is not wellbeing. Provider says many products are CC BY 4.0; verify exact product and required paper citations. |
| OECD Taxing Wages Tax | Eight household tax-wedge scenarios | 38 OECD countries, 2000–2025 | Downloaded SDMX data and dimension definitions; 7,904 atlas observations | Scenario model, not a typical resident; employer costs and cash benefits included. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| EU free movement and residence Citizenship | Residence and work rights | EU citizenship status, 27-member seed | Reviewed official guidance; 702 directed international routes recorded | Longer residence and regulated professions have conditions; overseas territory exceptions require separate review. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| UK–Ireland Common Travel Area Citizenship | Reciprocal residence and work rights | British and Irish citizens | Reviewed official guidance; 2 directed routes recorded | British citizen status, not every class of British passport; family rights and benefits have separate conditions. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| Australia–New Zealand mobility Citizenship | Facilitated residence and work visas | Australian and New Zealand citizens | Reviewed official Australian and New Zealand guidance; 2 conditional visa routes recorded | These are eligibility-dependent visas; duration and resident status differ in each direction. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| EU consular protection Citizenship | Assistance through other EU states when unrepresented | Unrepresented EU citizens outside EU | Official source indexed; no worldwide consular-capability score calculated | A right to seek assistance is not a guarantee of successful evacuation or release. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| GLOBALCIT citizenship-law research Citizenship | Citizenship retention, loss and dual nationality | Dataset-dependent | Research source indexed; structured dataset adapter pending | Rules depend on mode of acquisition, residence, generation and other citizenship. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| IRS rules for US citizens abroad Citizenship obligations | Worldwide income reporting and tax obligations | US citizens and resident aliens | Official guidance indexed; no individual tax liability calculated | Filing duties and tax owed are different; exclusions and credits may apply. Provider-specific terms apply; legal facts are summarized with attribution. |
| Eurostat regional accounts, labour, demography and EU-SILC Explorer evidence | Regional GDP, employment, life expectancy and reported financial strain | 2023 regions and 2024 surveyed household/income groups; coverage varies | Official response captured or official guidance reviewed, 2026-11-02 | Scope, observation period and conditional eligibility remain explicit; no unreviewed rights inferred. Provider-specific terms and attribution apply. |
| Paraguay temporary MERCOSUR residence Explorer evidence | Destination-specific nationality eligibility | 8 listed foreign nationalities | Official response captured or official guidance reviewed, 2026-11-02 | Scope, observation period and conditional eligibility remain explicit; no unreviewed rights inferred. Provider-specific terms and attribution apply. |
| Uruguay temporary MERCOSUR residence Explorer evidence | Destination-specific nationality eligibility | 11 listed foreign nationalities | Official response captured or official guidance reviewed, 2026-11-02 | Scope, observation period and conditional eligibility remain explicit; no unreviewed rights inferred. Provider-specific terms and attribution apply. |