Datasets Available for Download
A brief introduction
SRC has conducted
169 surveys since it
started in 1953,
providing a wealth
of data and
information about a
large number of
important issues.
Some
Statistics:
(53 projects on
Health, 41 projects
on Rural development
and agriculture, 38
projects on children
and adolescents, 51
projects on Gender
and Women…etc)
Different stages of
the same projects
are considered
different projects
since they get new
funding
Purpose or
Idea behind Survey
banks
1) Promoting
interchange of data
and Information
dissemination
2) To support the
decision making
process and enhance
policy formulation
through wider
accessibility among
data producers and
users.
3) Reducing the
duplication of
policy intervention
resulting from
insufficient
information with
regards to specific
development issues
and policies
4) Promoting the
right to access and
retrieve available
information
5) Comparative
literature (Health
and sanitation
projects, Aging
(94,2004)…etc). Also
to analyze trend
over time
6) Documentation and
proper backup
What is
Standardization?
The purpose is to
have a clean,
consistent,
unambiguous and high
quality data.
The main source of
the data is cleaned,
transformed,
catalogued and made
available for use by
researchers,
decision makers,
academics and
practitioners for
data mining,
analytical
processing, research
and decision
support..
1) Questionnaires
(standard pdf
format)- No
typographic or
spelling errors)
2) Prefixing
variables depending
on file (household
hh/ wife w/ children
c)
3) Checking data
dictionary for any
missing or
inaccurate variable
and value labels
4) Range and
consistency checks
5) Standard data
descriptors and file
formats greatly
facilitate data
exchange
What will a
standardized dataset
include?
1) Questionnaires
(bilingual) (pdf
format)
2) Data Dictionary
3) Clean data files
(SPSS format)
4) Documentation
about the survey,
sample, weights and
specific issues or
restrictions (pdf
format)
5) Project documents
and publications
including proposal
and final report (pdf
format)
Where do we
stand? SRC Datasets
We have already
standardized 7
datasets;
Evaluation of the Provider Incentive Payments Pilot on Reproductive Health Services in the Egyptian Health Sector Reform Programme(2006-2007)
Towards Policies for
Child Protection: A
Field Study to
Assess Child Abuse
in Deprived
Communities in Egypt
(2006)
The Survey of Social
Contract (2005)
Social and Health
Status and
Educational
Achievement of
Adolescents in Egypt
(ASCE) (1998)
Egypt Multiple
Indicator Cluster
Survey (1996)
Stratification,
Social Mobility and
Fertility Survey
(1995)
Development
Implications of
Demographic Change:
Global Population
Aging, Egypt
(1993-1994)
Downloading the
Datasets
Our data files are
available for use
(for legitimate
academic research),
at no cost with the
condition that we
receive an abstract
or a detailed
description of any
project that will be
using the data.
Therefore, we need
to know how the data
will be used before
authorizing their
download.
Once received, the
datasets must not be
passed on to other
researchers without
the written consent
of the Social
Research Center.
Copies of all
publications and
reports based on the
requested data must
be sent to the
Social Research
Center.
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Datasets
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Data Acknowledgment
Use of data from
this resource site
should be
acknowledged as
follows:
"These datasets
have been provided
courtesy of the
Social Research
Center of the
American University
in Cairo."
Disclaimer
The
Social Research
Center is authorized
to distribute, at no
cost, survey data
files for legitimate
academic research,
with the condition
that we receive an
abstract or a
description of any
project that will be
using the data.
Therefore, we need
to know how the data
will be used before
authorizing their
distribution.
Once received, the
datasets must not be
passed on to other
researchers without
the written consent
of the Social
Research Center.
Copies of all
reports and
publications based
on the requested
data must be sent to
the Social Research
Center.
These datasets are
provided "as is".
The Social Research
Center has made all
reasonable efforts
to obtain and
preserve high
quality data;
however no warranty,
expressed or
implied, is made by
the Social Research
Center as to the
reliability or
accuracy of the data
and related
materials. The users
of these datasets
should take care in
handling missing
observations,
outlier values, and
violations of
logical consistency.
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