Data & Transparency

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Blog Post

Better Data in Rwanda

Amanda Glassman
and
Jenny Ottenhoff
July 24, 2014
Our recent report, Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa, calls for donors and countries to better align their funding and activities around national statistics priorities to improve the accuracy, timeliness, and availability of data. 
WORKING PAPER

The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Statistics - Working Paper 373
Justin Sandefur
and
Amanda Glassman
July 14, 2014
Across multiple African countries, discrepancies between administrative data and independent household surveys suggest official statistics systematically exaggerate development progress. We provide evidence for two distinct explanations of these discrepancies.
REPORT

Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Data for African Development Working Group
July 08, 2014
Despite improvements in censuses and household surveys, the building blocks of national statistical systems in sub-Saharan Africa remain weak. Measurement of fundamental statistics such as births and deaths, growth and poverty, taxes and trade, land and the environment, and sickness, schooling, and ...
Blog Post

Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Amanda Glassman
July 07, 2014
Since the term “data revolution” was brandished in the High-Level Panel report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and drive an agenda to transform the way development statistics are collected, used, and shared the world over.&nbsp...