Update to EDUBASE data

The Edubase data in the RLAB data library has been updated.

The database no longer includes information about 'British Overseas Establishments'. The old version of the database has been preserved for consistency, the new version is saved as EDUBASE10_update2.

If you are a member of the RLAB and would like access to the data or have any questions please contact the data manager.

If you are not a member of the RLAB and are interested in getting access to the data please go directly to the provider http://www.edubase.gov.uk/home.xhtml;jsessionid=71BC9BF1AB5E86B0F48D52EAAE9F4F20

World Bank Development Data in Stata

WBOPENDATA has been added to the utilities available through the RLAB stata licenses.

If you have your own stata license and would like to install WBOPENDATA the command is:

ssc install wbopendata

WBOPENDATA draws from the main World Bank collections of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, and made available through the World Bank Open Data Initiative, and presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. Users can chose from one of three of the languages supported by the database, namely, English, Spanish, or French. Three possible downloads options are currently supported: country - all indicators for all years for a single country. topic - all indicators within a specific topic, for all years and all countries. indicator - all years for all countries for a single indicator. Users can also choose to have the data displayed in either the wide or long format (wide is the default option).

For example, to download all data available for the Philippines for all years, type:

wbopendata, country(phl) clear

This returns data for 972 indicators from 1960 to the latest year available. The default data display is in wide format.

The list of countries, topics, and indicators and their corresponding codes are documented in the help file (see -help wbopendata-).

Europeana database

Europeana is an EU funded database of paintings, music, films and books from Europe's galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

It currently contains links to 6 million objects from organisations such as the British Library, the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre.

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html