International Comparative Data: Advice to Neophytes

This presentation is aimed at those who are starting up the learning curve on all the international socioeconomic data sources out there. Comparisons of coverage, ease of use, advantages and disadvantages will be presented for services such as World Development Indicators (WDI), International Financial Statistics (IFS), the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) WorldDATA, United Nations Data bases, etc. A secondary focus will evaluate what else is worth exploring besides the big, well-known data providers just mentioned. (Note: Data associated with this presentation is available on the DLI FTP site under folder 1873-220.)