Since 1984, the Demographic and Health Surveys program (DHS) has collected, analysed and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV and nutrition through more than 200 surveys in over 75 countries.
These surveys have been conducted in the 1990s in about 20 ECE member countries. Standard country table gives access to 36 tables on economic, social, cultural and population indicators, household structure, partnership formation, fertility, contraception, sexual behaviour, contraception, abortion, female employment and children, summary measures for selected life events.For the period 2000-03, the PAU launched a project called "Generations and Gender: Research into their behaviour and quality of life". Some activities related to the FFS project continue under this new project. It will provide cross-sectional and longitudinal data, through a three-wave panel study with three-year intervals, covering the resident population aged 18 - 79 years of both sexes of the participating countries
LSMS household surveys collect data in developing countries to assess household welfare, to understand household behaviour and to evaluate the effect of various government policies on the living conditions of population.
A collection of internationally comparable surveys of human fertility conducted in 41 developing countries in the late seventies and early eighties
This page is intended as a resource to help locate datasets from developing countries. Many of these data are either in the public domain or available at modest cost from the data collection agency
This page provides a list of demographic surveys available on the web
The Réseau Quételet archives and disseminates humanities and social sciences data in France. The network has just created a new website in order to facilitate access to social sciences data. This portal centralizes the data available on partner websites and facilitates the process of data access. Réseau Quételet partners include the CMH-ADISP, public statistics data archives of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs, CDSP, Centre de données socio-politiques, and ...
Eurobarometer monitors the evolution of public opinion in EU member states on a regular basis by means of surveys and studies carried out on various themes: European construction, social situation, health, culture, information technologies, environment, euro, defense etc.
The Generations and Gender Surveys (GGS) is a panel survey in 19 countries with at least three panel waves and an interval of three years between each wave. Its main objective is to improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments, with a particular attention towards relationships between children and parents (generations) and relationships between partners (gender).
The CDSP (Centre for Socio-political Data) is responsible for archiving and distributing social sciences research data . It provides survey data on the political attitudes and value systems in France, and gives access to large-scale international studies
